Paranoid sadist refused drugs to help him

DISTURBING details about Brady’s sick mind were revealed for the first time yesterday.

The inquest detailed his paranoid state and how he declined all drugs or treatment, refusing to believe he was mentally ill.

Consultant psychiatrist Dr Noir Thomas said Brady was a paedophile and suffered from other sexually deviant conditions, including sexual sadism.

He said Brady was a paranoid schizophrenic, whose mental state was marked by hallucinations, delusions and disorganised thought and speech.

‘There are accounts of disturbed and bizarre behaviour relating to psychosis, to include assaults against peers,’ Dr Thomas said. ‘He suffered from a severe underlying personality disorder of prominent narcissistic and anti-social sub-types. He was also thought to suffer from a number of deviant sexual disorders, to include sexual sadism and paedophilia.’

Dr Thomas said Brady was offered anti-psychotic medication throughout his 32-year incarceration at Ashworth but refused to take any drugs. Only on a ‘very small number of occasions’ were drugs administered against his will.

Throughout his time at Ashworth Brady was verbally abusive, derogatory and confrontational towards hospital staff, the inquest heard. At a Mental Health Tribunal in 2013 he argued he was merely fabricating symptoms of psychosis. Dr Thomas concluded this was part of his ‘intractable narcissism.’