PRISON bosses struggled to find a crematorium willing to take Hindley.

Contingency plans were being made for her death as early as January 2001.

A letter from Sue Dolan, the Governor of HMP Highpoint Prison in Suffolk to Niall Clifford, operational manager for women's prisons, said: "Finding a crematorium has been problematic, the local crematorium is small and privately run.

"They refused to cremate Myra having had previous connections with the cremation of Fred West and having received threats to damage business which would reduce long-term profitability for shareholders."

The memo added that crematoriums in Ipswich and Cambridge also refused to take Hindley.

Ms Dolan warned that security costs meant the bill could rise to £10,000.

The memo said: "Total costs for the cremation and stewards could be as high as £10,000."

She said there were also problems relating to where to keep her body.

It said: "Options being considered are a military mortuary, a temporary mortuary (but where would we put it?) and a mortuary in a special hospital.

"I will make further enquiries regarding costs and funding and try to find out how the funeral of Fred West was managed as this is the closest parallel I can think of."

A memo dated October 2001 revealed press reports that Hindley had drawn up a list of 12 people to go to her cremation were accurate.

The list was headed by her mother Hettie, niece Sharon Scott, and brother-in-law William Scott.

She also invited Nina Wilde the prison teacher described as her `lover'.

Her cremation took place out of normal hours on November 20, 2002 at Cambridge.

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