Banned: Brady’s ‘diabolical orgy’ cremation m sic
Judge No to any kind of ceremony for funeral Killer wanted symphony from The Shining played
CHILD murderer Ian Brady was yesterday denied a final insult to victims’ families – to have music from horror film The Shining played at his cremation.
The Jack Nicholson movie, in which two little girls are slaughtered, uses a work by composer Hector Berlioz in which the main character is at a “diabolical orgy” after being executed for killing his lover.
High Court Chancellor Sir Geoffrey Vos said: “Offence would be caused to families of the deceased’s victims.”
As well as the music, the judge banned any ceremony for Brady and ordered a secret local authority disposal.
The twisted killer had left instructions with his lawyer Robin Makin to play the fifth movement of opium-inspired Symphony Fantastic, called Dream of the Night of the Sabbath, at his funeral.
The judge added: “I decline to permit it at the cremation as Mr Makin requested.”
And to illustrate its offensive nature, he quoted 1830 notes by the French composer about the narrative, in which a woman – believed to be the main character’s dead lover – joins a satanic mass in hell, following his death.
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The notes say: “It is she, coming to join the sabbath... roar of delight at her arrival... she joins the diabolical orgy.”
Brady and his lover Myra Hindley – who died in 2002, at 60 – murdered five children as young as 10 in the 60s, burying them outside Manchester on Saddleworth Moor.
Sir Geoffrey also ensured Brady’s ashes could not be scattered there, as feared, by handing responsibility to Tameside Council.
Details of where and when are secret and can only be made public a week later. In a statement, Tameside council said: “We sought the assistance of the High Court to ensure the body of ‘Moors Murderer’ Ian Stewart Brady is disposed of in a manner that does not cause offence and distress to the public, particularly the relatives of the victims who reside in our boroughs.”
Brady died aged 79 at Ashworth secure hospital, on Merseyside, where he had been held since 1985.
Offence would be caused to families of deceased victims SIR GEOFFREY VOS DENYING BRADY REQUEST