British woman who with Ian Brady killed five children around Manchester from 1963 to 1965, the crimes known as the Moors murders. She was jailed for life in 1966 and died in prison.
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady together committed the Moors murders.
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Her police photograph, taken after her arrest in 1965, became one of the best-known images in Britain. When Marcus Harvey's huge portrait of it, built from casts of a child's handprints, hung at London's Sensation exhibition in 1997, visitors threw ink and eggs at it on the opening day.