Article: 'World's most evil woman' was on brink of freedom after 36 years; DEATH OF MOORS MURDERER: MYRA HINDLEY CLUNG TO HOPE OF RELEASE UNDER EURO LAW WHICH HAS FREED OTHER KILLERS

MOORS murderer Myra Hindley, the woman who personified evil for many people, has died in hospital.

Hindley, 60, had respiratory failure in West Suffolk Hospital at Bury St Edmunds, where she had been taken from nearby Highpoint jail on Tuesday.

A chain smoker, she had suffered ill-health for much of her 36 years behind bars, with angina, strokes and osteoporosis. She survived a heart attack earlier this month.

Hindley and her insane lover, Glasgow-born Ian Brady, 64, were sentenced to life in jail in 1966 for the sexual abuse, torture and murder of three children. In 1987 they confessed to two more child killings.

Hindley was often dubbed "the world's most evil woman" and never expressed ...

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