Sick Brady’s games of hangman during trial
Contempt revealed in letters to mum
SICK Ian Brady played the kids’ game hangman with Myra Hindley in court, it has emerged.
Letters kept secret for over 50 years reveal the pair also amused themselves with noughts and crosses while stifling laughter at “ridiculous” evidence.
The notes, written in the 1960s by Moors murderer Brady to his mother Peggy from a remand cell, clearly show his contempt for the justice system.
And they confirm his offhand attitude to punishment, saying a life sentence is of “little consequence”.
The letters have only just been made public under Freedom of Information laws following his death in May. In them, Brady told of playing childish pen-and-paper games with Hindley when they were in court for a committal hearing in 1965. The games included hangman, in which players have to guess the correct letters of a word before the figure an opponent draws is “executed” on a gallows.
Brady, who with Hindley murdered Hindley, Brady and excerpt from 60s letter five youngsters aged 10 to 17, wrote of their looming trial: “Myra and I are still in excellent spirits and we’ve started to prepare seriously for the coming farce, though neither of us are losing any sleep.”
The letters also reveal Brady’s obsession with Hindley, saying: “I write to her every day, the same as her to me. Myra’s future is all I have to concern me now.”
Ungrateful Brady, who addresses Peggy as “Dear Ma” but occasionally verbally abuses her, moans about books and food she has brought him.
And self-pityingly, he whines about a “lukewarm” radiator in his cell and missing out on good TV programmes.