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Moors Murderer Ian Brady dies after plea for burial site location.

Moors Murderer Ian Brady has died at the age of 79.

His death comes just hours after he was urged to “do the right thing” and reveal where the last of his child victims is buried.

A Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said: “We can confirm a 79-year-old patient in long term care at Ashworth High Secure Hospital has died after becoming physically unwell.”

The serial killer, who used the name Ian Stewart-Brady before his death, was reportedly receiving palliative care at the hospital on Merseyside.

At a court hearing in February lawyers said he had been bedridden for the last couple of years and it was “fair to say” he was terminally ill, with emphysema among his ailments.

Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s. Four of the victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor in the south Pennines.

Brady was jailed for three murders in 1966 and had been at Ashworth since 1985. He and Hindley later confessed to another two murders.

Terry Kilbride, whose brother John, 12, was also murdered by Brady, begged him to tell police where he dumped the body of Keith Bennett, who went missing aged 12 in 1964.

He told the Sun: “I would beg him to do the right thing on his deathbed and tell us where Keith is.

“Now is the time for him to stop playing tricks and come clean.”

Pictures: PA. Ian Brady, above, was urged to tell police where he buried victim 12-year-old Keith Bennett, right, who went missing in 1964.