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Article: I should have hanged..I was a cruel bastard; Hindley is still haunted by Lesley-Ann's last hours.(News)

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Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
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March 1, 2000
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IT is more about what she didn't say - the remorse, the guilt, the fear of rape and torture by the man she loved. It will all come spilling out in a BBC documentary tonight.

In more than 150 letters from her cell, Moors Murderer Myra Hindley has tried to win a tiny crumb of sympathy which may help win the release she yearns for.

Although she admits she wished she had been given the death penalty, the twisted killer could not bring herself to mention the death of Lesley-Ann Downey.

By choosing to ignore perhaps her most evil crime - the beastly, ...

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