MEET MR TICKLE
A WEIRDO is offering stressed-out flight crew £200 a time to let him tickle them in the US via a bizarre online ad on a UK site. SICKOS who trade in serial killer merchandise are selling cards and letters Ian Brady sent from prison.
One Christmas card penned by the Moors Murderer is for sale at £370 on a US-based “murderabilia” website. And a collector told us that more of Brady’s possessions, including Christmas cards and letters, are for sale on the dark web.
Among Brady’s belongings being offered are long letters he wrote to pen-pals in which he talks of his love of vampire films and books such as Crime and Punishment.
The collector said: “There is a hardcore group of collectors of serial killer memorabilia.
“Christmas notes written by killers are valuable as they give an insight to how they are feeling at a time of year when they would have been at their most vulnerable in prison, with no loved ones or family around.
“A lot of letters and Christmas cards written by killers show their ‘softer’ sides and are surprisingly emotional. They often give the best insight into their real characters.”
The UK-based collector said Brady items are rising in value as there are only a limited number in circulation since his death in May aged 79. Three letters and a card from Brady are on sale on the Supernaught website, which says it specialises in “True Crime Collectibles”.
One letter is a two-line thank you note to a pen-pal and is being flogged for £243. Two longer letters
– in which Brady reveals he is fan of gothic films, Laurel and Hardy and the poet John Milton – are on sale for £374 each.
The sale of the letters will pile pain on the brother of one of Brady’s victims who was recently blocked in his battle to open two briefcases left by the killer.
Alan Bennett had hoped the locked cases may contain clues that could help locate the remains of his 12-year-old brother Keith.
Keith is the only one of Brady’s five child victims whose body was never found and the murderer refused to reveal where he was buried.