Evil Brady’s final taunts to police...
TIPS TO CATCH KILLERS
IAN Brady taunted police from his cell by writing about how to catch serial killers.
The Moors Murderer, who killed five children in the 1960s, died on Monday, aged 79.
In a string of letters seen by the Daily Star Sunday he boasted of writing 500 pages about criminal psychology and delving into the mind of a serial killer.
Brady revealed he spent most of his sentence learning psychology and studying psychiatry so he could “better understand myself and other people”.
In other letters he wrote about his time inside high-security Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, the psychopath claimed he:
Spent 20 years translating books into Braille for schools for the blind.
Was a chess master and rubbed shoulders with the Great Train Robbers and Reggie Kray whom he cooked for.
Offered to donate a kidney but was blocked by Home Office officials.
In the correspondence, revealed for the first time today, Brady charts a charmed life behind bars prior to being moved to Ashworth after being declared criminally insane. He writes that he SIMON LENNON made “Advanced studies in psychology, Aldermaston college and the British institute. Extensive reading in psychology, psychiatry, industrial management, auto hypnosis”.
The murderer, who claimed to be bilingual with GCE Grade A German, said he was refused an Open University course on cost grounds “in view of the fact that I shall die in captivity”.
He summed up his life behind bars, saying: “I led an eclectic, active existence. To put Ashworth in proper perspective as an over-manned penal warehouse, I enjoyed better conditions, a more therapeutic existence in Durham prison 34 years ago… that’s how retrograde Ashworth is”.
He was jailed in 1966 along with Myra Hindley for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, 10, John Kilbride, 12, and Edward Evans, 17. The pair later admitted killing Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. Keith’s remains have never been found despite extensive searches of Saddleworth Moor.
Prison officials are now investigating a mystery package Brady sent from his cell a few days before his death.