Myra Hindley

Myra Hindley (July 23, 1942–November 15, 2002), known as the Moors Murderess, was born in Crumpsall in the English city of Manchester. She left school in 1957 to work as a typist for a chemical firm called Millward's. It was at Millward's that she met Ian Brady, a Scottish-born man four years her senior with a history of violence and a string of burglary convictions. They began a relationship in late 1961, and Brady encouraged her to help him with bank robberies. He even asked Hindley to join a shooting club and possess a licensed gun, as he could not obtain a gun licence because he had a criminal record.

Lyrics

• "You're the most perfect woman – this side of Myra Hindley" — David E. Williams, "Pumpernickel Crust"
• "It's Myra Hindley on the cover, your very own sweet anti-mother" — Crass, "Mother Earth (Stations of the Crass, 1979)"
• "You better watch out Brady, I'm gonna 'ave ya lady/Just 'cause I wan' 'er, just 'cause I can get her /and you can't/So pogo on that you twat" — Brass Eye TV series spoof.
• "God save Myra Hindley/ God save Ian Brady/Even though he's horrible and she ain't what you call a lady" — The Sex Pistols, "No One is Innocent", (1979).
• "Hindley wakes and Hindley says/Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says: 'Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone'" — The Smiths, "Suffer Little Children"
• "Kill Yeltsin, who's saying? Zhirinovsky, Le Pen / Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe / Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda / Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Milosevic / Give them respect they deserve" — Manic Street Preachers, "Archives Of Pain"
• Throbbing Gristle's "Very Friendly" where frontperson Genesis P-Orridge speak-sings an account of the last murder and subsequent apprehension of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.