British criminal and perpetrator of the infamous "Moors murders". She was convicted, along with her accomplice Ian Brady, of murdering five children between July 1963 and October 1965 .
She worked as a clerk at an electrical engineering firm.
She died behind bars at age sixty.
Her parents regularly abused her as a child.
She and Ian Brady were admirers of the work of Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky.
