The bewigged judge ordered the two defendants to stand. "Ian Brady," he said, addressing the first prisoner, "you have been found guilty of three calculated, cruel and cold-blooded murders. I pass the only sentence which the law now allows: three concurrent sentences of life imprisonment." Then turning to the other defendant, Myra Hindley, 23, the judge decreed her two concurrent life sentences and one seven-year sentence.
Thus last week in a courtroom in Chester, 16 miles south of Liverpool, ended the 14-day trial of the lean stock clerk and his blonde girl friend....
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