Burn in hell Brady
Britain’s most infamous child killer dies in secure psychiatric hospital
NOTORIOUS child killer Ian Brady has died at the age of 79.
The Glasgow-born Moors Murderer had been gravely ill and was receiving palliative care at a secure psychiatric unit.
With his lover Myra Hindley, Brady murdered five children in the 60s.
He takes the secret of where he buried his last victim, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, to the grave.
Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside confirmed: “A 79-year-old patient in long-term care has died.”
MOORS monster Ian Brady was 79. He had lived more than 50 years since being caged for a catalogue of horrific child murders.
He had never shown any remorse. The Glasgow-born sadist went to his grave without revealing where he dumped 12-year-old Keith Bennett, the only one of his five victims not to be found.
Brady’s callousness means Keith’s family will probably never be able to give him a decent burial.
Keith’s mum, Winnie Johnson, had repeatedly begged Brady to return her son to her. When she died in 2012, her family lawyer John Ainley said: “He persistently ignored the wishes of a grieving mother.
“It is truly heartbreaking.”
The nature of Brady’s final illness was not revealed but he had been unwell for some time with emphysema and was receiving palliative care.
Trained nurses were sent into Ashworth secure mental hospital on Merseyside to make sure he was comfortable.
The hospital confirmed last night: “A 79-year-old patient in long-term care has died after becoming physically unwell.”
Brady and his accomplice Myra Hindley murdered five children and teenagers – Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Keith, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17 – in Manchester in the 1960s.
They sexually tortured at least four of their victims and buried four of them on Saddleworth Moor near the city. Hindley, who lured children into Brady’s clutches, died aged 60 in 2002.
Brady met Hindley in 1959 while working as a clerk at a chemical company. She was an 18-year-old secretary.
She became infatuated with him. He was obsessed with Nazism and she bleached her hair blonde to look like the ideal “Aryan” woman to please him.
Hindley played along with Brady’s warped fantasies and sent him sexual photos. They plotted bank robberies together but never carried them out.
Brady and Hindley moved in together at her granny’s home in Cheshire and killed for the first time in July 1963. They murdered Pauline, who had been on her way to a disco, after Hindley lured her to Saddleworth Moor by pretending she had lost a glove.
Brady beat Pauline savagely and cut her
throat with such ferocity that her spinal cord was severed.
Hindley and Brady murdered John in November that year after abducting him from Ashton Market. They sexually assaulted and killed him on the moor.
Keith was kidnapped and murdered in June 1964 after leaving home to visit his granny.
Lesley was lured to her death at a funfair on Boxing Day 1964. Brady and Hindley recorded her horrific last moments on an audio tape that lasted 16 minutes and 21 seconds.
It left the jury, spectators, police and the judge at the killers’ trial in tears.
Former police chief John Stalker, a detective sergeant at the time, said: “Nothing in criminal behaviour before or since has penetrated my heart with quite the same paralysing intensity.”
Lesley Ann was found naked except for shoes and socks. Police could not say exactly how she had been killed.
Edward was murdered in October 1965 after being lured from a gay bar to Brady and Hindley’s then home in Hyde.
Brady bludgeoned him with an axe, smothered him with a cushion then strangled him with an electrical cable.
Hindley’s brother-in-law David Smith, who had been summoned to the house and made to witness the murder, helped the killers hide the body then fled in terror and called the police.
Officers found Edward’s trussed-up corpse in the spare room.
Brady and Hindley were jailed for life at Chester Assizes in 1966 for the murders of John, Lesley and Edward. The judge told Brady he was “wicked beyond belief ”.
The killers confessed in 1987 to killing Pauline and Keith. They then returned to the Moors and helped police find Pauline’s, who was still wearing her pink and gold party dress. A search for Keith’s remains ended in failure.
Brady spent almost two decades in prison before being declared insane in 1985 and transferred to Ashworth. He enjoyed playing the system and wasting taxpayers’ money.
He staged a series of hunger strikes from 1999 onwards and claimed he wanted to die. But hospital staff told one hearing about his future that he often ate toast and soup in his room.
At Ashworth, Brady enjoyed French cigarettes and Nazi music. He rarely left his room in his final years.
Full of self-pity, he whined that the hospital was “a regressive menagerie” where there was “no meaningful life”.
In 2013, Brady demanded a move to a Scottish prison where he would not be force-fed. A mental health tribunal threw out his case because of his severe psychiatric illness.