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Article: Comment: Ethical questions that mean life and death; Ian Brady's pleading in court to be allowed to die has raised some important legal points, says Chief Feature Writer Jason Beattie.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- March 2, 2000
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More than 30 years since their horrific crimes, the spectre of death still lingers over the Moors Murderers.
One of them, Ian Brady, wants to die, the other, Myra Hindley, has claimed she wished she had been hanged.
It is difficult to imagine what the relatives of their victims think of the continuing ability of this macabre duo to attract the nation's attention.
But then sensitivity towards others has never been Brady's or Hindley's main consideration, nor, it should be admitted, that of those who report their every utterance and thought.
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