Crime
Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were rehoused in Hattersley in 1964 and lived at 16 Wardle Brook Avenue at the time of their arrest in 1965. They killed at least two of their victims there. In October 1987 Manchester City Council demolished the house as they could not find tenants willing to live there.
On 18 September 2012, two unarmed female police officers, Fiona Bone and Nicola Hughes, while responding to reports of a burglary in Abbey Gardens, were attacked with a firearm and grenade. One died at the scene and the second died in hospital. Dale Cregan, 29, was arrested when he walked into Hyde police station a short time after the incident. He was charged with both murders on 20 September, and two other murders and three counts of attempted murder in other parts of Greater Manchester.
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