Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, dies aged 79

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Source: Guardian

Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, has died in high-security hospital aged 79, an NHS spokesman has said.

Brady, who revealed he had a lung and chest condition in December, had been receiving palliative care from cancer nurses at Ashworth psychiatric hospital on Merseyside.

Mersey Care NHS foundation trust, which runs Ashworth hospital, confirmed that a 79-year-old male patient died after becoming unwell.A spokesman said Brady died at 6.03pm on Monday. He was unable to say what Brady died of, but said the killer had been on oxygen for a while.

Brady and his then-girlfriend Myra Hindley sexually tortured and murdered five children between 1963 and 1965, burying at least four of the bodies on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/15/ian-brady-the-moors-murderer-dies-aged-79

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This has been a long time coming. The body of one kid was never found.

[Skittles]

1. I remember that, I lived in England then

I think it was Ian's teenaged brother who turned him in after Ian tried to recruit him into helping with the murders?

that link is not working

[canetoad]

2. Fixed

Ta for that. I'd transposed link & source.

It was Myra's sister's husband who turned them in. Dave Smith.

I lived in England too, as a kid. Came to Oz after all this happened in 1965.

[Skittles]

6. TA!

oh my gosh, my English grandparents said TA

[Skittles]

9. was looking for an update for David Smith

he did such a good thing

it must have been awful for him

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2142197/Key-witness-helped-catch-Moors-Murderers-dies-aged-65.html

[canetoad]

10. He did

And he was really only a kid himself. Seventeen at the time. He may have saved a number of lives.

[Skittles]

11. I researched Maureen too

during her sister's trial she was pregnant.....she died in 1980 at age 34 of a brain hemorrhage.....I hope their baby had a better life

[Warpy]

3. BBC did a film on that

Incredibly chilling stuff, a couple of sadistic psychopaths found each other.

If they hadn't been caught, they'd have moved on to women pretty quickly.

[canetoad]

4. 'See No Evil'?

From around 10 years ago?

[Warpy]

5. Something like that

I discovered it when I was binge watching UK films while DU was down.

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7. 2 youtube vids, a documentary on BBC and a movie See No Evil...

the doc

the movie

[canetoad]

8. Thank you

[Coventina]

12. The Smiths: Suffer Little Children