Monster will have no grave .. and no one will mourn
Monster won’t get flashy funeral he craved Top cop: Just leave him out for the binmen
MOORS monster Ian Brady will be cremated with no mourners and his ashes will be scattered in secret.
Coroner Christopher Sumner heard yesterday that the serial child torturer and multiple murderer died of heart problems and chronic lung disease.
And he refused to release the sadist’s corpse for a funeral until he was given assurances about how it would be conducted.
Mr Sumner demanded a guarantee that Brady’s ashes would not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester, where he and lover Myra Hindley buried four of their five victims.
He also checked before agreeing to release the body that a funeral director and crematorium had been found who were willing to dispose of it.
Mr Sumner said: “Emotions are high, they are bound to be, in the Manchester area.
“I think it would be offensive if the ashes were scattered on Saddleworth Moor.”
The court in Southport, near Ashworth secure mental hospital on Merseyside, heard that Brady was looked after at the hospital by a specialist palliative care team in his last two weeks of life. His feeding tube was removed on Thursday, May 11, and he died at 6.02pm on Monday. Brady had instructed that he should not be resuscitated. The vain murderer planned his own funeral years ago. He hoped for national TV coverage and an honour guard of gangland enforcers over his coffin. He also spoke in 2009 of his wish to be buried in Scotland. But Brady will be denied the lavish send-off he wanted. It’s likely he will be cremated in secret before his ashes are scattered without ceremony at a spot known only to a handful of people.
When Hindley died in 2002, she was cremated privately and her remains were scattered by a prison officer near the crematorium in Cambridge.
Chief Inspector Ian Hanson, head of the Greater Manchester Police Federation, said even that would be too good for Brady.
He added: “As far as I’m concerned, Ashworth Hospital can leave him out for the binmen.”
Few if any will grieve for Glasgow-born Brady. He had no living relatives.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: “Today is probably a day for us to