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- The story itself begins during the late 1960s (during the first premiership of Harold Wilson) at the House of Lords, with Lord Longford, a regular prison visitor, presiding over a reception for a number of ex-convicts he had visited and corresponded with during their imprisonment, including one who is now a successful artist and another who has forged a career in motor engineering.
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Francis Aungier Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford, KG, PC (5 December 1905 – 3 August 2001), known to his family as Frank Longford and styled Lord Pakenham from 1945 to 1961, was a British politician and social reformer. A member of the Labour Party, he was one of its longest-serving politicians.
Many continue to associate Lord Longford primarily with his unpopular campaign to parole the Moors Murderer, Myra Hindley, but it was in reality just one part of a prisons’ crusade that lasted for 70 years, based on his belief that every offender, whatever their crime, could be rehabilitated.
Lord Longford, a Catholic convert, campaigned to secure the release of "celebrated" criminals, and Hindley in particular, which earned him constant derision from the public and the press. He described Hindley as a "delightful" person and said "you could loathe what people did but should not loathe what they were because human personality was ...
May 16, 2017 · PA. Brady's accomplice Myra Hindley died in 2002. "She is a good woman," Lord Longford told me more than once, as he tried to advance her case for release. A more unpopular cause to champion,...
Feb 17, 2007 · Longford, a converted and devout Catholic who also assailed against the corrosive effects of pornography, visited and pushed for the rehabilitation of prison inmates throughout his life.
May 17, 2017 · She came up for parole several times, and Lord Longford, a Labour peer famed for championing social outcasts and unpopular causes, worked for her release, saying she was “a genuinely reformed...
Jan 18, 2019 · This chapter provides a brief history and a timeline of the Moors Murders case, and introduces the key themes of the work. In 1966, Brady and Hindley were convicted of the abduction, sexual assault and murder of Lesley Ann Downey (10), John Kilbride (12) and Edwards...
