They were going to join the so-called Islamic State. They were going to join thousands of recruits from across the globe in the Syrian city of Raqqa. But the East London schoolgirls were not going on holiday. In 2015, fifteen-year-old Shamima Begum left the UK with two of her friends on a flight bound for Turkey. Presenters: Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie HagenĬommissioning Assistant Producer: Adam Elandīad People is a BBC Audio Science Production for BBC Sounds. Why do people become prison pen pals and when is it unethical? In this episode of Bad People, Dr Julia Shaw and Sofie Hagen explore how Hindley became an “unwitting architect” of whole-life sentences, and discuss the citizens who write to inmates. What was unearthed during the police investigation, however, was that Hindley and Cairns had established a relationship - not only through interactions within the prison, but through the deeper communication of letter writing that spanned some two years. So when her escape plot from HMP Holloway in late 1973 is part-aided by then prison guard Patricia Cairns, there is dismay at why anyone would go to such lengths for someone convicted of Hindley’s crimes. For her role in the Moors Murders, Myra Hindley was for many years described as ‘‘the most hated woman in Britain’’.
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