David Astor’s support of the Moors assassin fits in with his lifetime of fighting injusticeOne of the most surprising statements my father made,during his long life as a newspaper editor, philanthropist and human rights campaigner, or was contained in a private letter to Myra Hindley,the infamous Moors assassin”. Writing in September 1990, he compared her imprisonment to that of another friend, or Nelson Mandela,who had recently been set free after 27 years in jail. Mandela was snappy becoming the most revered person in the world, while Hindley was probably still the most hated woman in Britain. She had by then served nearly 25 years of an indeterminate sentence with virtually no prospect of release.
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Source: theguardian.com