Hindley appeal to Euro court

Myra Hindley's lawyers have lodged an application with the European Court of Human Rights to have her "whole life" murder tariff overturned.

A ruling by the Strasbourg court this week opened the way for her to argue that successive Home Secretaries had no power to keep her in prison until she dies.

The Moors Murderer, jailed for life in 1966, was originally told she would have to spend 25 years behind bars, but in 1990 Home Secretary David Waddington decided she should never be released.

Hindley is now appealing against that decision, followingthe Strasbourg court's ruling that setting a prisoner's tariff is the responsibility of judges, not politicians.

Following her conviction for murdering Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17, Hindley and Ian Brady confessed to murdering two other children who were buried on Saddleworth Moor.

Home Secretary David Blunkett said after the Strasbourg ruling that he would use legislation if necessary to "provide adequate punishment for the guilty - including life meaning life".