Post by ozcaro on Feb 16, 2011 11:27:47 GMT
The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in England. The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17——at least four of whom were sexually assaulted and probably tortured. Most of the victims were buried on nearby Saddleworth Moor, giving rise to the name the Moors Murders. .
Myra Hindley who was called "the most evil woman in Britain died in prison in 2002, aged 60. Brady, a "sexually sadistic psychopath, who has confessed to five more murders, was declared criminally insane in 1985, and is confined to the high security Ashworth Psychiatric Hospital, he has no wish to be released and makes frequent requests to be allowed to die.
In 1990, then Home Secretary David Waddington imposed sentence on Hindley, after she confessed to having a greater involvement in the murders than she had previously admitted
The Sentencing of Brady and Hindley
After having deliberated for a little over two hours, the jury found Brady guilty of all three murders and Hindley guilty of two murders. The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act had come into force, abolishing the death penalty for murder, and therefore the judge passed the only sentence that the law allowed: life imprisonment. Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had murdered one child victim Brady was taken to Durham Prison and Hindley was sent to Holloway Prison
In his closing remarks Mr Justice Atkinson described the murders as a "truly horrible case" and condemned the accused as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". He stated that Brady was "wicked beyond belief" and that he saw no reasonable possibility of reform. Throughout the trial Brady and Hindley "stuck rigidly to their strategy of lying",and Hindley was later described as "a quiet, controlled, impassive witness who lied remorselessly".
The case of Brady and Hindley is considered one of the most grisly serial crimes in Great Britain history
More information can be found in the excellent Wikipedia article “Moors murders” at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders
Myra Hindley who was called "the most evil woman in Britain died in prison in 2002, aged 60. Brady, a "sexually sadistic psychopath, who has confessed to five more murders, was declared criminally insane in 1985, and is confined to the high security Ashworth Psychiatric Hospital, he has no wish to be released and makes frequent requests to be allowed to die.
In 1990, then Home Secretary David Waddington imposed sentence on Hindley, after she confessed to having a greater involvement in the murders than she had previously admitted
The Sentencing of Brady and Hindley
After having deliberated for a little over two hours, the jury found Brady guilty of all three murders and Hindley guilty of two murders. The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act had come into force, abolishing the death penalty for murder, and therefore the judge passed the only sentence that the law allowed: life imprisonment. Brady was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences and Hindley was given two, plus a concurrent seven-year term for harbouring Brady in the knowledge that he had murdered one child victim Brady was taken to Durham Prison and Hindley was sent to Holloway Prison
In his closing remarks Mr Justice Atkinson described the murders as a "truly horrible case" and condemned the accused as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity". He stated that Brady was "wicked beyond belief" and that he saw no reasonable possibility of reform. Throughout the trial Brady and Hindley "stuck rigidly to their strategy of lying",and Hindley was later described as "a quiet, controlled, impassive witness who lied remorselessly".
The case of Brady and Hindley is considered one of the most grisly serial crimes in Great Britain history
More information can be found in the excellent Wikipedia article “Moors murders” at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moors_murders