Family celebrates death of daughter’s murderer

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THE father of murdered Failsworth teenager Sharon Mosoph said the family had been celebrating following the death of her killer.

The Chronicle reported on Friday how Trevor Hardy — dubbed The Failsworth Strangler and The Beast of Manchester — died in hospital last week after suffering a heart attack at Wakefield Prison.

The 67-year-old was serving life for the murder of three girls in the mid-1970s, one of them Sharon, whose naked body was found in the Rochdale Canal in March, 1976, 300 yards from her Brooks Drive home.

Her father Ralph (75), who still lives in Failsworth with his wife, Jaqueline (74), said: “We have been celebrating, we have been partying. The news has just lifted a burden off our shoulders.

“He can’t come out now and do anything to anyone else. I believe there’s a god now. He recently got refused parole but there’s always that chance that he would try again and maybe succeed.

“It is a big relief. We can put it all behind us now and try to get on with our lives. “

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