Moors Murderer Myra Hindley asked doctors not to resuscitate her if she stopped breathing, an inquest has heard.

The 60-year-old was admitted to West Suffolk Hospital, in Bury St Edmunds, in November 2002 suffering from severe breathing difficulties.

She died a few days later from bronchial pneumonia and heart disease, a post-mortem examination revealed.

An inquest jury returned a verdict of death by natural causes after a hearing at Highpoint Prison, Stradishall, Suffolk, where Hindley was held for the last few years of her life.

Brady and Hindley were jailed in 1966

The Greater Suffolk coroner Dr Peter Dean was told Hindley had been very ill towards the end of her life and was taking a cocktail of prescribed drugs.

They included anti-depressants and treatments for angina, high cholesterol, osteoporosis, sleeping and breathing problems and pain killers.

None of Hindley's relatives attended her funeral service at Cambridge Crematorium.

She was jailed for life in 1966, with her lover Ian Brady, for the murders of three children.

Child murderer

In 1987 she and Brady confessed to the murders of two more children.

The bodies of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12 and Pauline Reade, 16, were buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham.

The body of Keith Bennett, 12, has never been found.

Their final victim, Edward Evans, 17, was killed in front of Hindley's brother-in-law, who alerted police.

Hindley was Britain's longest-serving woman prisoner, having spent 36 years in jail, and made several failed legal bids for freedom.

Brady is in the fourth year of a hunger strike at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, where he is being fed via a nasal tube.