biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Convicted murderer, born in Glasgow, W Scotland, UK. He was found guilty of the murder of two children, John Kilbride (12) and Lesley Ann Downey (10), and a 17-year-old boy, Edward Evans, in 1966. In a case which horrified the public, it was revealed that Brady, with his lover Myra Hindley (1942–2002), from Gorton, lured young children into their home in Manchester and subjected them to torture before killing them. The lovers were described as the ‘Moors Murderers’ because they buried most of their victims on Saddleworth Moor in the Pennines. Hindley confessed to two other murders in 1986. Currently, Brady is a patient at Ashworth Special Hospital, Merseyside, and Hindley, despite efforts which had been made for her release, had been the subject of a court ruling upholding the home secretary's decision that she should remain in custody for life. |
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