Ian Brady: what we have learned about the Moors murderer. After sentencing Ian Brady to life in May 1966, the trial judge, Mr Justice Fenton Atkinson, described the then 28-year-old as "wicked beyond belief".
For the next 47 years, Brady's voice was not heard in public, though he wrote a steady stream of letters to the outside world moaning about life inside Ashworth, the secure psychiatric hospital where he has been sectioned since 1985. Nor did we know what he looked like. Save for a grainy long-lens shot of Brady in 1987 – snapped when he was taken back on to the Moors to search for the body of Keith Bennett, a 12-year-old he and Myra Hindley murdered in 1964 – there was no reliable indication of how Britain's most notorious living serial killer had aged. He remained forever the imperious young man of his monochrome mugshot: teddy boy quiff, blank eyes, narrow nose and down-turned lips.
Now we know. Still present is his superior attitude to everyone around him. Time and again Brady dismissed "ordinary people". Control. Moors murders. The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around what is now Greater Manchester, England.
The victims were five children aged between 10 and 17—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—at least four of whom were sexually assaulted. The murders are so named because two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered on the moor in 1987, more than 20 years after Brady and Hindley's trial in 1966. The body of a fourth victim, Keith Bennett, is also suspected to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. The police were initially aware of only three killings, those of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride. The investigation was reopened in 1985, after Brady was reported in the press as having confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. Victims[edit] Initial report[edit] Arrest[edit] Moors murderer Ian Brady 'carried pen as a weapon' in hospital. The Moors murderer Ian Brady carried a pen to use as a weapon against other patients, who he feared might "jump him" at his secure psychiatric hospital, his mental health tribunal has heard.
The 75-year-old has become "almost nocturnal" since having the pen confiscated, after staff feared he could lash out at others in Ashworth mental hospital in Merseyside. Brady hopes to prove his sanity so that he can be transferred from Ashworth to a prison. For the past 14 years he has been force-fed via a feeding tube, which was visible hanging from his right nostril at his tribunal. On Tuesday, the hearing, held in a room inside Ashworth and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre, was given details of Brady's daily life inside the secure hospital and features of his behaviour. Brady – who, along with his partner Myra Hindley, killed five children in the 1960s – has tried to "evade security" at Ashworth, the hearing was told. He had never been assaulted on the ward, the court heard. Security Alert: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and the Moors Murders in pictures. Myra Hindley.
Myra Hindley Biography. Myra Hindley was an serial killer of small children, murders she committed in partnership with boyfriend Ian Brady.
Synopsis Myra Hindley was an English serial killer. In partnership with Ian Brady, she committed the rapes and murders of five small children. Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law tipped her off to the police. Hindley plead not guilty to all of the murders. Early Life Born on July 23, 1942 in Manchester, England, Myra Hindley grew up with her grandmother. Murderer Testing her blind allegiance, Brady hatched plans of rape and murder. Finally, in October 1965, police were alerted to the duo by Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith. Hindley and Ian Brady were brought to trial on April 27, 1966, where they pleaded not guilty to the murders of Edward Evans, Lesley Ann Downey, and John Kilbride. Myra Hindley.