EVIL BRADY WANTED ASHES SCATTERED ON MOORS
Final sick twist for victims’ families
MOORS murderer Ian Brady’s dying wish was for his ashes to be scattered where he buried his child victims.
The monster died on Monday evening and it has emerged he demanded his remains be spread on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham, in a vile last blow for the families of the five youngsters he killed.
A CORONER yesterday refused to release Ian Brady’s body to stop his ashes being scattered on the moors.
The 79-year-old monster died from lung disease in his room at a top security psychiatric hospital.
Brady, who abducted, sexually tortured and murdered five children he buried on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester in the 60s, had pulled out a tube from his nose used to feed him after an on-off 18-year hunger strike four days before.
He had ordered doctors not to revive him.
Yesterday coroner Christopher Sumner said though police were investigating, he did not believe Brady’s death was suspicious.
But he refused to release the serial killer’s body until he had assurances he would not be laid to rest with his victims.
In letters to penpal Cody Lachey, 33, Brady – who has no known surviving relatives – asked to be cremated in his native Glasgow.
He asked Mr Lachey, who corresponded with him for three years, to provide security in the “historically hysterical and exploitative circumstances” of his funeral.
Yesterday Mr Sumner said he had received a request to release the killer’s body – but would not do it until he had “assurance” that after the killer’s cremation “his ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor”. He said: “I think that’s a right and proper moral judgment to make. I think it would be offensive.’’
The coroner said he also wanted assurances funeral directors and crematorium bosses had been found who were willing to handle Brady.
The killer, who died on Monday at Merseyside’s AshworthHigh Secure Hospital, is as hated now as he was when he was jailed in 1966 for the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, Edward Evans, 17 and John Kilbride and Keith Bennett, both 12.
Lesley’s brother Terry West, now 66, last night said he believed Brady had asked in his will for his ashes to be scattered on the moor, calling it “the final act of an evil, twisted man”.
Last night Chief Insp Ian Hanson, chairman of Greater Manchester Police Federation, said: “Brady now takes his place in hell and he can rot there. Ashworth Hospital can leave him out for the bin men.’’