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Mug shots of Ian Brady (right) and his partner Myra Hindley at the time of their arrest in October 1965.

Ian Brady (born Ian Duncan Stewart on January 2, 1938 in the Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland) is a notorious British serial killer. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links Moors_Murderers. ... Image File history File links Moors_Murderers. ... Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... is the 2nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Gorbals is a predominantly working-class area on the south bank of the river Clyde in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... This article is about the country. ... Serial killers are individuals who have a history of multiple slayings of victims who were usually unknown to them beforehand. ...

Brady is known primarily for his role in a series of murders that he committed along with his partner Myra Hindley in Greater Manchester between 1963 and 1965. These were dubbed the Moors murders, as several victims were buried along the Saddleworth Moor near Oldham in Lancashire. Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Saddleworth Moor looking toward the Wessenden valley Saddleworth Moor is an area of heath moorland on the northern English Pennine hill-range between Holmfirth and Uppermill. ... For the larger local government district, see Metropolitan Borough of Oldham. ... Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea. ...

He was sentenced to life imprisonment in May 1966 and more than 40 years on is still imprisoned; since 1985 in a mental hospital. He is unlikely ever to be released, and since 1999 has been trying to gain the right to take his own life. For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... This article is about the year. ...

Biography

Early life

Ian Brady was born at the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital in Glasgow and grew up in the Gorbals. He was adopted into a local family at a young age. His father has never been identified; his mother claimed that he was a journalist who died a few months before their son was born. Brady came to resent his illegitimacy. At the age of eleven, Brady went to Shawlands Academy. Rottenrow Gardens. ... For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... The Gorbals is a predominantly working-class area on the south bank of the river Clyde in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. ... Shawlands Academy is a non-denominational Secondary school on the southside of Glasgow, Scotland. ...

He developed a fascination with Nazi Germany, Nazi pageantry and Nazi symbolism. By the time he was a teenager, he had been brought before the juvenile courts for incidents of burglary and housebreaking. On the first two occasions he was given probation, but on the third the court ordered him to leave Glasgow and live with his mother. She had since moved to Manchester and had married an Irish labourer. In November 1954, two months before his 17th birthday, Ian left the Sloane household and travelled down to join his mother and her new husband. Although he did not get along with Mr Brady, Ian took his stepfather's surname. Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal         Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... The twentieth century German Nazi Party was notable for their extensive use of graphic symbolism, most notably the Hakenkreuz (swastika) which it used as its principal symbol, and, in the form of the swastika flag, became the state flag of Nazi Germany. ... This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

There he developed an interest in the writings of the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, giving particular attention to Nietzsche's theories of Übermensch and The Will to Power. He became increasingly interested in a philosophy that championed cruelty and torture, and the idea that superior creatures had the right to control (and destroy, if necessary) weaker ones. Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) (IPA: ) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. ... The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. ... The will to power (German: Der Wille zur Macht) is a concept prominent in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. ... Look up cruelty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Torture (disambiguation). ...

Brady avidly collected books about torture and sadomasochism and other paraphilias relating to domination and servitude. About this time, he worked as a butcher's assistant. He also began drinking heavily and gambling. Flogging demonstration at Folsom Street Fair 2004. ... Look up paraphilia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Domination is a supreme or preeminate control, rule, or governing; plural dominion. ... Servitude may refer to: Service conscription employment Slavery indentured servitude ...

The young man soon resorted again to thieving, and after being convicted several more times (plus being arrested and fined for an incident of public drunkenness), he was sentenced to two years training at a Borstal school as well as a stint at Strangeways Prison. In the United Kingdom, a borstal was a juvenile detention centre or reformatory, an institution of the criminal justice system, intended to reform delinquent male youths aged between about 16 and 21. ... HM Prison Manchester is a British prison. ...

While incarcerated, Brady learned illegal techniques for acquiring money. Hoping to avoid manual labour and aiming to appear respectable, he studied bookkeeping. His release led to prolonged stretches of unemployment. He worked as a labourer for Boddingtons Brewery between April and October 1958, before spending a few more months unemployed. Brady eventually found a job in February 1959 as a stock clerk at Millwards Merchandising. Almost two years later, in January 1961, he met Myra Hindley, who had just been hired at Millwards as a shorthand typist and they soon began a relationship. Bookkeeping (also book-keeping or book keeping) is the recording of all financial transactions undertaken by an individual or organization. ... The logo of Boddingtons Bitter Boddingtons is an English beer, originally from Manchester, United Kingdom that has been brewed for more than 200 years. ... Jan. ... Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ...

Myra Hindley

Main article: Myra Hindley

The relationship between Brady and Hindley developed in concert with Brady's increasingly rabid identification with Nazi-era atrocities and his growing sadomasochistic sexual appetite. Hindley was Brady's eager student. Under his influence, she stopped going to church and started hating children. Mug shots of Myra Hindley (left) and her partner Ian Brady at the time of their arrest in October 1965. ... For the architectural structure, see Church (building). ...

Soon after they became a couple, Brady and Hindley began planning a series of bank robberies, which they never carried out. When Brady became fascinated with the idea of rape and murder for sexual gratification, Hindley actively participated in procuring child victims, as well as sexually abusing, torturing and murdering them. It has been suggested that Safecatch be merged into this article or section. ... Bad Touch redirects here. ... For other uses, see Torture (disambiguation). ...

With the aid of a time-delay camera and a self-devised darkroom, Brady and Hindley set about taking photographs of themselves acting out sadomasochistic fantasies. They later took pictures of each other standing or kneeling at the moorland burial sites of their victims. Apparently one of their earliest ambitions was to crack the illicit amateur pornography market, selling obscene photographs of their bizarre sexual antics with each other — but for whatever reason, this enterprise failed. Porn redirects here. ...

Hindley later claimed that Brady had taken the compromising pictures of her while she was unconscious, and subsequently used them to blackmail her into participating in the murders. However, Brady has strenuously denied this suggestion and claims that Hindley was indeed a willing and enthusiastic participant in both the photographs and the murders. According to those police investigators who had examined the photographs, Hindley appears to be a fully complicit camera subject and is clearly enjoying herself.

Moors Killings

Main article: Moors murders

Brady was responsible for the murders of five children during the 1960s. In August 1987 he claimed to police that he had carried out another five killings and even said where he had buried the bodies, but the police were never able to prove whether these claims were true. This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...

The five murders that Brady admitted carrying out were committed with Hindley as his accomplice. These were the infamous Moors Murders, which are still some of the most reviled crimes in Britain decades after they happened, the judge at Brady and Hindley's trials even saying they were the worst murders in the past century. As a result, Brady and Hindley became two of the most hated individuals in British criminal history.

On July 12, 1963, the couple claimed their first victim. Sixteen-year-old Pauline Reade was enticed into Hindley's minivan while Brady followed behind on his motorcycle. They drove up to Saddleworth Moor where Hindley asked Pauline to help her look for a lost glove. They were busy "searching the moors" when Brady pounced upon Pauline and raped her. He then smashed her skull in with a shovel and slashed her throat so violently that she was almost decapitated. Brady then buried Pauline's body on the moor, where it remained for over 20 years. is the 193rd day of the year (194th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saddleworth Moor looking toward the Wessenden valley Saddleworth Moor is an area of heath moorland on the northern English Pennine hill-range between Holmfirth and Uppermill. ...

On November 23, Hindley lured 12-year-old John Kilbride into her car from a market place in Ashton-under-Lyne, and drove him to Saddleworth Moor. Brady was waiting there and ordered Hindley to wait for him in a nearby village in their hired Ford Anglia. While Hindley waited in her car, Brady raped and attempted to stab the boy with a knife, but the weapon was too blunt. Brady lost his temper and strangled him to death with a string before burying his body in a shallow grave. is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

On June 16, 1964 their third victim was another 12-year-old boy, Keith Bennett, whom they enticed from a street in Chorlton and drove to Saddleworth Moor. Hindley stood and watched from the top of an embankment while Brady raped Keith in a ravine before strangling him to death with a piece of string and burying his body. His body has never been found. is the 167th day of the year (168th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also Nintendo emulator: 1964 (emulator). ...

The fourth victim, 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey, was lured from a fairground in Ancoats and taken to the new council estate in Hattersley, where Hindley lived with her grandmother, Ellen Maybury. Brady took nine obscene photographs of Downey, showing her naked, bound and gagged (which were later found in a suitcase in a left luggage locker). Hindley recorded the scene of the child's rape and torture by Brady on audio tape. The tape clearly records the voices of Brady, Hindley and the child, who is heard to scream and protest and asks to be allowed to go home and plead for her life. It is believed she was killed by Brady. The following morning, Brady and Hindley drove Lesley's body to Saddleworth Moor where it was buried in a shallow grave. Public housing describes a form of housing tenure in which the property is owned by a government authority, which may be central or local. ... Location within the British Isles Hattersley is an area of Greater Manchester, England, east of Hyde and west of Mottram in Longdendale, in the borough of Tameside. ...

On October 6, 1965, the couple claimed their fifth and final victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans. Similar to the Downey murder, they enticed Evans from Manchester Central Railway Station to Hindley's home in Hattersley, where Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law, David Smith, was invited later that evening. Brady then crept up on Edward in the kitchen and smashed his head in with the blunt edge of hatchet, bludgeoning him fourteen times before stangling the young man with a length of electrical flex. Brady ordered Smith to help him carry the corpse to an upstairs bedroom and tie it up ready for disposal, but Smith then ran home and contacted the police. Smith explained later that, while apparently giving assistance to cleaning up, his sole concern was to escape the house alive. is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Moors murders. ...

Other sources say that Smith and Hindley were in the kitchen and when Evans started screaming in the living room, Hindley said, "Go and help Ian." Smith subsequently informed the police.

Sentencing

The death penalty was abolished just one month after Brady and Hindley were arrested. By the time they went on trial the following April, the punishment for murder was life imprisonment. This meant that a murderer was liable to be detained for the whole of his or her natural life, but could be released on life licence when no longer judged to be a risk. Life imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime, nominally for the entire remaining life of the prisoner, but in fact for a period which varies between jurisdictions: many countries have a maximum possible period of time (usually 50 years) a prisoner may be incarcerated, or require the...

On 6 May 1966, Brady was found guilty on three counts of murder and sentenced to three terms of life imprisonment. Hindley was found guilty of murdering Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans and given two life sentences; she also received a concurrent seven-year sentence for harbouring Brady in connection with the murder of John Kilbride. is the 126th day of the year (127th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...

The key evidence against the couple included the tape recordings of Downey made while they photographed her naked; the name of John Kilbride in a notebook; and a photograph of Hindley standing on top of the shallow grave where Kilbride was buried. Brady immediately admitted the murder of Edward Evans, but adamantly insisted that Hindley had no part in it. Brady finally confessed to the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett in November 1986. For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...

Imprisonment

Ian Brady after two decades in prison.

Brady spent 19 years in HMP Parkhurst (at one point befriending serial poisoner and fellow Nazi aficionado Graham Frederick Young) before he was declared mentally disordered in 1985 and sent to Broadmoor Hospital, a secure psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane. He is currently an inmate of Ashworth Hospital, a high-security institution in the town of Maghull, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Image File history File links Ian_Brady_in_prison. ... Image File history File links Ian_Brady_in_prison. ... HM Prison Parkhurst is a prison situated in Parkhurst, Isle of Wight. ... Graham Frederick Young (September 7, 1947 – August 1, 1990) was a British serial killer who poisoned a total of three people to death (his stepmother, and then years later two work colleagues, Bob Egle and Fred Biggs) as well as administering smaller doses to scores of others. ... Location of Broadmoor Hospital at grid reference SU8464 in the United Kingdom Broadmoor Hospital is a high security psychiatric hospital at Crowthorne in Berkshire, England. ... A psychiatric hospital (also called, at various places and times, mental hospital or mental ward, historically often asylum, lunatic asylum, or madhouse), is a hospital specialising in the treatment of persons with mental illness. ... Map sources for Ashworth Hospital at grid reference SD397030 Ashworth Hospital is a high-security institution in the town of Maghull, a suburb of Liverpool, Merseyside, England. ... For other uses, see Liverpool (disambiguation). ...

The trial judge spoke of his doubt that Brady could ever reform, describing him as "wicked beyond belief" - and effectively giving him little hope of eventual release. Successive Home Secretaries have agreed with that decision, while Lord Lane (the former Lord Chief Justice), set a 40-year-minimum term in 1982. In 1990 he was told by Home Secretary David Waddington that both he and Hindley should never be freed. His successor Michael Howard agreed with this judgement in 1994 and told Brady of his decision; after November 2002, politicians could no longer decide the minimum number of years that any life sentence prisoner would have to serve. Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ... David Charles Waddington, Baron Waddington, PC (born August 2, 1929), is a Conservative politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Rt Hon. ... Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... For other uses, see November (disambiguation). ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

He has had to be force-fed since going on hunger strike in September 1999, after the High Court refused him the right to starve himself to death. In early 2006, various newspapers reported that Brady was hospitalised and doesn't have much longer to live. He is, however, still alive at present, and currently being held at Ashworth Hospital in Liverpool. A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt or to achieve a goal such as a policy change. ... This article is about the year. ... High Court usually refers to the superior court of a country or state. ...

Under the terms of the 40-year minimum term that was recommended in 1982, Brady could have applied for parole in October 2005, but has always insisted that he never wants to be released. Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... For other uses, see October (disambiguation). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2001 Brady penned a book called The Gates of Janus, which was published by the underground American publishing firm Feral House. The book, Brady's analysis of serial murder and specific serial killers, sparked outrage when announced in Britain.[1] Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Feral House is a book publisher owned and operated by Adam Parfrey. ...

Despite his incarceration, Brady (and his murders) still provide headlines for the UK tabloid press. Fellow prisoner Linda Calvey recently told the The Daily Mirror that, before her death in November 2002, Hindley confessed their killing of a young female hitch-hiker. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Alternate newspaper: The Daily Mirror (Australia) The Daily Mirror is a British tabloid daily newspaper. ...

It has been reported that Brady devised a secret code to stop the police from finding out where the body of Keith Bennett is buried, and that he is furious that a drama documentary based on the murder was shown on ITV1 in May 2006. He has bragged to various newspapers that he has stopped four previous films from being made. A drama documentary is a relatively new form of drama. ... ITV1 is the name, in England, Wales and the Scottish borders, for a terrestrial, free-to-air television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom by the ITV network. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In early 2006, it was reported that a woman tried to smuggle 50 paracetamol tablets to Brady at the prison hospital. The amount could have been sufficient for a successful suicide attempt. Hospital employees foiled the attempt using X-ray screening, which revealed the pills in two sweets tubes inside a hollowed out crime novel.[2]. Paracetamol (INN) (IPA: ) or acetaminophen (USAN), is the active metabolite of phenacetin, a so-called coal tar analgesic. ... For other uses, see Suicide (disambiguation). ... Mrs. ...

Winnie Johnson, the mother of Brady's one undiscovered victim, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, received a letter from Brady at the end of 2005 claiming that he could take police to within 20 yards of her son's body, but the authorities would not allow it. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In September 2007, Brady embarked on the first step of a legal bid to be allowed to kill himself. He has been kept alive by force feeding and applying to be moved out of a mental health unit to prison in order that he can starve himself to death. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

His lawyer stated, "he should be allowed to move as he serves no purpose in life". Brady costs as much as £1m per year in health costs and legal fees.

It has also been reported that Brady has written his autobiography and has given his solicitor instructions that it may only be published after Brady's death.

References and further reading

• The Moors Murders: The Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, Jonathan Goodman, David & Charles 1986. ISBN 0-7153-9064-3
• Brady and Hindley: The Genesis of the Moors Murders, Fred Harrison 1986 Grafton. ISBN 0-906798-70-1
• Myra Hindley: Inside the Mind of a Murderess, Jean Ritchie, Paladin 1991, paperback. ISBN 0-586-21563-8
• On Iniquity, Pamela Hansford Johnson 1967, Macmillan.
• The Monsters Of The Moors, John Deane Potter, Ballantine Books 1967.
• Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection, Emlyn Williams, Pan 1992. ISBN 0-330-02088-9
• Serial Killers and Mass Murderers: 100 Tales of Infamy, Barbarism and Horrible Crime, Joyce Robins. ISBN 1-85152-363-4.
• The World's Most Infamous Murders. ISBN 0-425-10887-2.
• "Behind the Painted Smile", Gary Cartwright 2004. ISBN 1-4120-2647-4.

Links

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ianbrady/ --- Ian Brady discussion group