Moors murderer Myra Hindley has returned to prison after receiving treatment for a potentially fatal brain condition.

Hindley, who is serving life for the murder of a 10-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, spent three days in Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge.

She has now been returned to Highpoint prison in Suffolk.

The child killer, who is suffering from a cerebral aneurysm, caused by an artery swelling up at the base of the brain, received four hours of treatment early on Friday.

She was monitored by neurosurgoeons over the weekend and was allowed to leave early on Monday.

'Sufficient progress'

A hospital spokesman said: "The prisoner has been judged well enough to return to prison.

"The patient spent a comfortable night and was seen early this morning by members of the medical team who felt she had made sufficient progress to be discharged."

Her condition is known to be aggravated by stress and smoking. The former shorthand typist, who has spent 33 years in prison, smokes 40 cigarettes a day.

Hindley and her former lover, Ian Brady, were given life sentences in May 1966 for the murders of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and 17-year-old Edward Evans after being arrested at their home on the outskirts of Manchester.

In 1987 the pair confessed to the killings of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12.

Pauline's body was unearthed and given a proper burial after Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester, to identify the spot where they buried her.

But Keith Bennett's body has never been recovered.