Until recently, Hindley had been petitioning for
release, but following then
Home Secretary Jack Straw's
1997 ruling that she should remain
incarcerated, and the
demise of her sympathiser
Lord Longford, she appears to have given up on this misguided
crusade. It seems she and
Ian Brady are now resigned to
dying in prison. They may not have long to wait, either: Brady is on constant
hunger strike and under
suicide watch (ironically, many who originally argued for Brady's
execution now want to see his life prolonged), while Hindley has a
terminal illness.
Update: Hindley did, indeed, spend the rest of her life in
prison. She popped her clogs on
Friday,
November 15, 2002, at the age of
60, apparently from
pneumonia. She takes the knowledge of the location of
Keith Bennett's
grave to her own - along with the details of further victims, if any existed.