Freedom is finally within reach for Britain's longest-serving female prisoner. After 39 years killer Maria Pearson, who's served longer than Moors murderer Myra Hindley, is preparing for release
To begin with, the relationship between Ian Brady and Myra Hindley was a pretty tame affair, confined largely to a weekly one-night stand on Saturdays.
Ian Brady was born Ian Stewart in the Royal Maternity Hospital, Glasgow , to Peggy Stewart, an unmarried 28-year-old waitress. He never knew who his father was
Early on the morning of October 7 1965, just as daylight was breaking and the world beginning to stir, the local police station in the Manchester suburb of Hyde received a strange 999 phone call.
'Putting one foot in front of the other and living for the day, no plans for the future. Just fighting the fight. You have no time to think that you're resilient because it's the kind of default posi…
'Don't mix with bad people,' she recently told one new arrival, aged in her twenties. 'And do your best to stay out of prison because it's not worth living your life in here.'
The jail, which once housed famous prisoners George Michael and Myra Hindley, will swell in size by 50 per cent during the dramatic redevelopment, meaning it will have room for 2,044 inmates.
The Cromwell Street killer and the Moors Murderer were the two most notorious female prisoners in Britain when they met in Durham Prison in the mid 1990s.