Brady’s body under guard over vengeance attack fears
Ian Brady’s body was under police guard last night amid fears it could be desecrated or attacked.
Officers are protecting the Moors Murderer’s corpse, believed to be in a morgue at an undisclosed hospital, in case it becomes a potential target for those seeking vengeance.
The news emerged as it was revealed that Brady’s accomplice, Myra Hindley once shot and killed someone on a Yorkshire moor to experience the thrill of blasting a .38 Smith and Wesson gun.
In more confessions from beyond the grave published in the Daily Mail today, Brady claimed the unidentified victim was ‘a liability we had up in Yorkshire’.
He told academic Dr alan Keightley the couple buried the body, adding: ‘We relaxed with a whisky, listening to the radio tuned to Radio Caroline.’
Brady has previously boasted of killing more people than the five children he and Hindley were convicted for in the 1960s, but nothing has been proven.
He said Hindley was ‘a girl as calculating and merciless as I was’.
Love letters the warped couple penned to each other in prison are also revealed by Dr Keightley for the first time.
Hindley gushed in one of them: ‘Each day that passes I miss you more and more. You are the only thing that keeps my heart beating, my only reason for living. I’ve got one interest in life and that’s you. We had six short but precious years together, six years of memories to sustain us until we’re together again, to make dreams realities.’
He wrote to her: ‘Where my love is, there I will be. So much has been lost, our love for each other is all that remains and will always remain. Everything else was an accessory to our love.’
Brady, 79, revealed how he hoodwinked prison staff, faking psychotic symptoms for over a year, to be transferred to a cushy life at a mental hospital. The serial killer was pronounced dead at ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside, where he has been held for the past 32 years, at 6.02pm on Monday. at an inquest hearing at Southport Town Hall yesterday police requested the coroner delay releasing Brady’s body for 24 hours until proper arrangements for the funeral and cremation had been made.
They said Brady’s remains were ‘safe’ but feared they could not guarantee their protection once the body had been released from their jurisdiction.
Hindley was cremated in secret following her death in november 2002, but only after the Prison Service recruited an undertaker 200 miles away to do the job. no local funeral director wanted to perform the service.
Coroner Christopher Sumner agreed to the police request but said Brady’s body would be released to his lawyer Robin Mr Makin, who is executor of the killer’s will, at 2pm today.
Merseyside Police said there had been no ‘direct’ threats made to Brady’s body but admitted they were taking precautions to ensure its ‘safe transfer’.
‘Calculating and merciless’