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'''Lesley Moreland''' is an [[English]] [[author]] whoknown for wrotewriting a book aboutdetailing her experience following the [[murder]] of her daughter Ruth in 1990. Moreland is notable for her resolve to meet the man who killed her daughter. inThe 1990.book, ''An ordinary SheMurder'', also correspondeddetails her correspondence with an American killerman on [[Death row|Death Row]].

==Biography==

Lesley Moreland was born in . She washas been a committed Quaker since her twenties and spent 30 years working in the X sector. Moreland wrote a book about the [[murder]] of her daughter Ruth at the age of 22 in 1990.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Campbell |first=Duncan |date=2001-03-12 |title=Life after death |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/12/gender.uk2 |access-date=2024-04-25 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

Lesley lives in [[Potters Bar]], [[Hertfordshire]] with her husband Vic.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1996-03-16 |title=Dear Mrs Moreland |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/dear-mrs-moreland-1342299.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>

Lesley Moreland's book, ''An Ordinary Murder'', tells herthe painful story of what happened to her and her family in the weeksperiod and months that followedfollowing the murder of her daughter Ruth. She reveals her struggle to find ways of continuing to live positively while accepting Ruth's death. This is a courageous and compassionate book of an unforgettable story.<ref>{{Cite web |title=An ordinary murder {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/45580426 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=An Ordinary Murder: Amazon.co.uk: Moreland, Lesley: 9781854107459: Books |url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ordinary-Murder-Lesley-Moreland/dp/1854107453 |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=www.amazon.co.uk}}</ref> The book also tells the story of her desire to meet her daughter's killer, Andrew Steel, a friend of Ruth's former boyfriend. It also describes her correspondence with killer Michael Richard, a [[Death row|Death Row]] inmate in [[Texas]], who was convicted of an unrelated murder. Moreland was a committed [[Quakers|Quaker]], and her exchange with Richard, started as a journey of faith, led by her conviction that there is humanity in everyone, even the most condemned criminal.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-05 |title=BRITONS REACH OUT TO DEATH ROW |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/09/16/britons-reach-out-to-death-row/3f05dc7c-dbe6-424f-b77c-19f33096fbb8/ |access-date=2024-05-12 |work=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> It was also part of a wider letter-writing network that connected Britons with death row inmates, as part of a program that was opposed to [[capital punishment in the United States]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schoettler |first=Carl |date=1994-11-10 |title=British group finds ‘pen friends’ among 2,900 prisoners on U.S. death rows |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/11/10/british-group-finds-pen-friends-among-2900-prisoners-on-us-death-rows/ |access-date=2024-05-12 |website=Baltimore Sun |language=en-US}}</ref>

In the book, ''Death, dying and bereavement'', which includes a chapter by Moreland, the editors note that Lesley's "thoughts and experience following the murder of her daughter provide insight into a particularly traumatic form of sudden death."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Death, dying, and bereavement |date=2000 |publisher=Sage Publications in association with the Open University |isbn=978-0-7619-6856-6 |editor-last=Dickenson |editor-first=Donna |edition=2nd |series=Open University set book |location=London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif |editor-last2=Johnson |editor-first2=Malcolm L. |editor-last3=Katz |editor-first3=Jeanne}}</ref> ▼

The book tells the story of Moreland's resolve to meet her daughter's killer, Andrew Steel. It also describes her correspondence with an American killer Michael Richard on [[Death row|Death Row]].

▲In the book, ''Death, dying and bereavement'', the editors note that Lesley's "thoughts and experience following the murder of her daughter provide insight into a particularly traumatic form of sudden death."<ref>{{Cite book |title=Death, dying, and bereavement |date=2000 |publisher=Sage Publications in association with the Open University |isbn=978-0-7619-6856-6 |editor-last=Dickenson |editor-first=Donna |edition=2nd |series=Open University set book |location=London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif |editor-last2=Johnson |editor-first2=Malcolm L. |editor-last3=Katz |editor-first3=Jeanne}}</ref>

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A reviewer of An Ordinary Murder stated that <ref>{{Cite journal |last=Singh Bhui |first=Hinpal |date=2003 |title=An Ordinary Murder |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/probj50&id=162&div=&collection= |journal=Probation Journal |volume=50 |pages=172}}</ref>

* Lesley Moreland holds two photos, one of her daughter Ruth, left, who was murdered in 1990, and one of Michael Richard who was convicted of an unrelated murder, during an interview in London April 20, 2001. Ruth's 1990 murder set her mother on decade-long journey that included a jailhouse meeting with the killer and brought Moreland an unlikely new friend in Richard, a death row inmate in Texas.

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