BRADY’S DEPRAVITY LAID BARE IN LETTERS Dear Ma, today we played hangman in court

occasions to make clear that he was trying to be funny. In one he said: “I received the books you sent Mr. Fitzpatrick. They really are the worst books I’ve ever half read ( joke). Seriously though, I couldn’t finish reading any of them they were so bad.”

After Brady Brady’ss mum had a bout of poor health, he wrote: “Mr F tells me you have been ill recently. I hope it’s nothing serious and that you’ve gotten

over it by now.” But he then followed it up by saying: “There is no point visiting me, to come all this way for 15 minutes, talking trivia is pointless and I can’t discuss anything of importance while a warden sits in between.”

Brady also whinged about life in jail, where “nothing ever happens”.

He grumbled: “I hope the mild weather lasts as the cell I am in has a radiator that is always lukewarm and one has to sit on it to keep warm when the weather is cold.” In a separate letter he wrote: “The weather has been excellent this week. Sunny and mild. ”

In another, he wrote: “I had two teeth extracted recently. Quite a good dentist they have here. I’ve told Myra to make an appointment with him.”

Brady also said: “I notice from the papers that there are some exceptionally good programs and films on TV these days. They seemed to show mainly rubbish on TV when I was free.”

Brady asked his mum for books including one called The Vampire.

But he whined: “The food you brought was, as I have told you in the past, unnecessary. I asked for chicken, wine and and books, nothing else. I can buy most other things here.”

In another entry, Brady asked his mum, who died in her 90s in 2010: “Will you send a clean blue shirt and underwear etc. I only have the clothes I am wearing at the moment.”