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Hindley death provokes bitterness
BURY ST EDMUNDS, England -- The families of the children killed by the British Moors murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady have greeted the news of Hindley's death with a mixture of relief and bitterness. Police are on Saturday guarding the body of Hindley, one of Britain's most notorious child-killers, a day after she died in West Sussex hospital in Bury St Edmunds, England, at the age of 60. (Full story) An inquest will be heard at nearby Highpoint prison, Suffolk, on Monday following a post mortem on Saturday. Police have not revealed any further details about Hindley's cause of death. The chain smoker had experienced ill-health, suffering from angina, suspected strokes and osteoporosis for most of the last 36 years of her life in prison in connection with the deaths of five children in the 1960s. (Profile) Along with her lover Brady, who is now 64, she tortured and sexually abused their victims before burying the bodies on desolate moors near Manchester, in north west England. (Crimes) The pair were jailed for life in 1966 for the sexual abuse, torture and murder of three children -- John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. In 1987 they confessed to two more child killings -- those of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12. But as the mother of Keith waited to learn if the child killer had made a deathbed confession, she said she hoped Hindley had gone to Hell. Winnie Johnson has campaigned for 38 years to learn where the body of her son was dumped by Hindley and her lover. But she said she now feared Hindley had taken the secret to her grave. "I was hoping that she would say something before she died but it looks as if she hasn't, so I have got to live with it again, yet again," she told Sky News. "She's the evillest one of the two of them -- Brady's never wanted to come out of prison, but she's tried from day one to get out. "She'll not do it again. She will go straight to Hell where she deserves to go. "Don't ask me if I have got any sympathy for her because I haven't." Hindley -- along with Ian Brady -- snatched and then killed 12-year-old Keith in 1964 as he walked towards his grandmother's house. His remains are still somewhere on Saddleworth Moor. Hindley and Brady confessed to the murder in 1987 but were never charged. "I always hoped she would be able to tell me at least something of what I wanted to know and I've never given up that hope," said Johnson, of Manchester, England. "Whatever happens, I'll never give up looking for Keith and I'll keep asking Brady," she said. Johnson still makes an annual visit to the moor to lay flowers in memory of her son, who would have been 50. Hospital sources said that police are guarding Hindley's body amid fears of attacks by members of the public or photographers attempting to snatch pictures. Arrangements have been made for a funeral service to be held at Cambridge crematorium. Alan West, the stepfather of Lesley Ann Downey, received the news of Hindley's death with bitterness. West, also from Manchester, the widower of Lesley Ann's mother Anne, told the Sun newspaper: "I'm glad Hindley has gone -- Hell will be too good for her. She was evil. It tormented Anne that a woman could take part in the hellish torture of a little girl. "The horror of what happened to Lesley Ann also killed my wife. Hindley sentenced her to a long, lingering, painful death. I just wish God had evened up the scales of justice before she died." John Kilbride's brother Terry said he wished his mother had been alive to hear of Hindley's death. He told the Daily Mail: "I am just really sorry that my mother is not here to witness this -- she died three months ago. I would have loved to have seen the relief on her face." Hindley murder case 'horrific'Former Daily Mail journalist Jim Stansfield covered the case from when a body was first discovered on the moors until the end of Brady and Hindley's trial. "The whole thing was horrific, but captured the public's imagination," said Stansfield, now aged 73 and living in Lancashire. "She (Hindley) was evil. The police told me that when she was arrested she was worse than Brady -- she would not cooperate or talk. "I think she was completely dominated by Brady and she absolutely adored him and would do anything for him." Peter Topping, a former investigating officer in the Hindley case, said if it had not been for Hindley being prepared to abduct the children the murders would not have taken place. He told Sky News: "It takes a great deal for somebody to abduct young children as she did for Brady." But a Methodist minister who pressed for Hindley's release said her death was "a very sad occasion." The Reverend Peter Timms, a former governor of Maidstone jail, said he thought Hindley was treated "grossly unfairly." He counselled Hindley before her 1987 confessions about her role in the murders of Pauline Reade, Keith Bennett and John Kilbride. He said: "She served 36 years and died in prison, it's a very sad occasion. "Everyone who knows about it knows the sense of injustice that has been done against her. "It was the politicians and the tabloid press that kept her in prison. "There is no doubt that she was remorseful and that if she could have turned the clock back she would have," he added.
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I have no sympathy for her even in death...I just hope she goes to Hell
