Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who killed five children with Myra Hindley, has died aged 79.
He had been held at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric unit in Merseyside, since 1985.
Brady was jailed for three murders in 1966 and later confessed to two more.
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."
Brady, alongside Hindley - who died in prison in 2002 - tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s in crimes that shocked the nation.
Four of the victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham, Greater Manchester.
Brady who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester was jailed in 1966 for the killings of 12-year-old John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, and Edward Evans, 17.
Hope he burns in whatever hells are available.
Not telling his parents where Keith Bennett was buried is inexcusable.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
A POS who should have been executed decades ago dying peacefully of natural causes at age 79 doesn't strike me as much cause for celebration...
He's as dead as if he had been executed, so what's the difference? Someone who is killed by lethal injection may well die that peacefully, so what's the difference? I wouldn't celebrate a death, even of someone who has committed horrendous acts like this man.
IMHO a 50+ year stint in jail is no reason to celebrate either.
The 50 years of life that he got that his victims didn't get because of him is the difference...
A HUGE difference...
Opponents of the DP like to talk a lot about "morality"....
In the system of morality I embrace , it is the height of immorality to not impose the DP on a scumbag unquestionably guilty of the heinous crimes this monster committed...
Jim--I understand you and I differ on this moral issue, and I agree with an earlier post that there is not much that can be said on this topic that hasn't been said, so I will refrain from further comment on that issue. But IMHO there is a big difference in just dispatching someone to the great beyond and celebrating his or her demise. And 50 years of life in a prison is not something I would wish one anyone, I personally would prefer being quickly dispatched than the mind numbing monotony and routine of prison, and I would bet most of us would prefer that.
The fact that he refused to disclose to his dying day where he and Myra H had buried Keith Bennett, leaving the kids mother with a lifetime of not being able to bury him properly, is cause enough to hope the shit suffered immensely.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Big RR wrote:I personally would prefer being quickly dispatched than the mind numbing monotony and routine of prison, and I would bet most of us would prefer that.
Don't be so down on yourself, Big RR - most of us would like you to stick around for a while.
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts
