Ian Brady

Ian Brady (born Ian Duncan Stewart ; * 2. January 1938 in Glasgow , Scotland ; † 15. May 2017 in Maghull , Merseyside , England ) was a British serial killer who, together with Myra Hindley as Moor killer (English Moors Murderer ) in the history of crime received.

Life

Ian Brady was born in 1938 to a waitress in Gorbals , one of the problem areas in Glasgow. After his father's death, his mother gave him to foster parents, Mary and John Sloan, when he was three months old.

At the age of ten he switched to a school for gifted children, but was particularly noticeable there because of his “bad behavior”. From an early age he occupied himself with the writings of de Sade , Nietzsche and Dostoevsky and with Hitler's Mein Kampf .

Between the ages of 13 and 16 he came into conflict with the law several times for theft and burglary and was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence. One of the probation was that he had to move in with his mother, who was now married in Manchester to a man named Patrick Brady. He adopted his mother's new name. Brady was sentenced to two years ' imprisonment in 1955 after helping a truck driver steal fruit from a vegetable market he was now working in.

After his release, he worked first for a brewery and later as an accountant at a small chemical factory. It was there that he met Myra Hindley in January 1962. Brady and Hindley began a love affair based on a shared hatred of society and Brady's perverted sexual fantasies.

Brady considered himself an outsider to society, outstanding for his willpower and self-discipline. He wanted to stand out from the usual crime with his following crimes. In a later letter to the press, he justified his actions as “the product of an existentialist philosophy coupled with the spirituality of death itself”.

Murders

In 1963, the couple began their series of murders, which killed at least five children and young people between the ages of 10 and 17. Her first victim was 16-year-old Pauline Reade. Hindley approached her with a request if the girl could help her; she lost her glove. With the prospect of finding a reward, she lured Reade to Saddleworth Moor near Manchester and then overpowered her with Brady. They abused and murdered the girl in their shared apartment.

The couple's other victims, John Kilbride (12), Keith Bennett (12), Lesley Ann Downey (10) and Edward Evans (17), were mostly approached by Hindley. Hindley posed for a photo with her lap dog where they'd buried Kilbride's body; this photo later led the police to the site on Saddleworth Moor.

In the summer of 2013, a television documentary on the British broadcaster ITV suggested that the photos Brady and Hindley took were clues like a grave cross to the graves of the victims. The body of Keith Bennett, which could not be found despite repeated searches in Saddleworth Moor, is said to be located at the Ramshaw Rocks above Leek and the Tittesworth Reservoir in Staffordshire and thus more than 60 km away from Saddleworth Moor, according to the television station .

Keith Bennett's body could not be found until Brady's death. Brady had said himself that he had given his lawyer a letter in which he had given details of the location of the body. However, the possible existence of this letter has never been clarified. After the death, relatives asked that any evidence from the estate that could help to find the body should be released. However, experts doubted that Brady could have given any useful information, since he was in the bog a long time ago, which is also constantly changing in appearance.

Brady and Hindley repeatedly tried to get other people excited about their actions, including Hindley's 17-year-old brother-in-law David Smith, in front of whose eyes Brady tortured and murdered 17-year-old Edward Evans in 1966 . Smith fled the house and alerted the police.

Condemnation

On May 6, 1966, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment. She had not confessed to the murders and abuse of the three teenagers Lesley Ann Downley, John Kilbride and Edward Evans. Their deeds, which they had captured on photos and tapes, testified to inhuman cruelty. As evidence, a tape was played in the courtroom on which the couple had recorded the murder of Lesley Ann Downey. The ten-year-old could be heard pleading for her life on the tape. This process remained in the public consciousness for decades; the nation was in shock.

More than 20 years later, Ian Brady confessed to journalist Fred Harrison that he was also responsible for the murders of Pauline Reade and Keith Bennett. However, despite requests from Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, he did not reveal the location where he had disposed of his body.

Admission to psychiatry

Ian Brady in 1985 by psychiatrist for irresponsible explained and out of the prison system in the forensic psychiatry of Ashworth Hospital admitted . Brady has been on a hunger strike from 1999 - his self-declared goal was to bring about his death; he was therefore force-fed . He said he did not eat any food, while hospital staff reported in a public hearing on July 25, 2013 that he "made toast every day" and consumed the food on offer "most days," which he also did Corresponds to information from process observers regarding his physical appearance.

In July 2012, Brady collapsed for the first time in the hospital and suffered breathing arrest . However, he was resuscitated by the doctors in charge and then force-fed. In autumn 2012 he broke two vertebrae in a fall. On January 28, 2013 Brady applied for a court order through his lawyer, according to which he may not receive any further life support measures in the event of another serious illness.

In June 2013, Brady and experts heard from a Mental Health Review Tribunal to help make a decision on Brady's further placement in a psychiatric ward. The hearing, which was originally scheduled to take place in 2012 but was postponed because of Brady's health problems, marked the first time Brady had been seen in public in 47 years. Brady also spoke about his situation at the hearing. Experts and hospital staff reported psychotic episodes with paranoid delusions, confirming that he was still suffering from the originally diagnosed schizophrenia, even though he had better control of his illness. Brady himself stated that he only played the behavior mentioned according to the technique of Method Acting and Konstantin Stanislawski . Brady's attorneys themselves admitted that her client had narcissistic personality disorder, but they insisted that he was not mentally ill. Brady sought to be transferred to a prison in Scotland because he was born and raised there. The background to this wish was that there would be no force-feeding of prisoners in Scotland and that Brady would starve to death as he intended.

The Mental Health Review Tribunal determined that Brady still needs medical treatment for his own health and safety and the safety of others because he has a mental illness. As a result, his request to be transferred to prison was denied and his continued placement at Ashworth Hospital was confirmed.

A re-examination of this decision was scheduled for September 2016, but it was canceled as Brady insisted on being represented by attorney Robin Makin of the law firm E Rex Makin & Co, who has worked for him for over 25 years. As the law firm is not a member of the Bar Association's section for psychiatric procedures , it cannot apply for state reimbursement for its work in this procedure. In February 2017, a court ruled that there was no legal basis in the European Convention on Human Rights that a procedure in connection with placement due to mental illness had to be accompanied by an electoral lawyer who is paid by the state. Proceedings to enforce this claim before the High Court were therefore judged to be hopeless.

A few weeks before the death of their 79-year-old client, his lawyers said he was seriously ill and had been bedridden for years. Because he suffers from emphysema , he receives constant oxygen and is treated with an inhaler four times a day .

death

Brady died on May 15, 2017 at Ashworth Hospital in Maghull. Brady had most recently received constant care from palliative nurses at Ashworth Hospital. A cause of death was initially not disclosed. A coroner found the cause of death to be heart failure and a chronic lung-blocking disease. It has been ordered that the body will not be released for burial until it has been ensured that there is a funeral home and crematorium to carry out the cremation and that the ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor after the cremation. In a second session of the Coroner Court it was decided that Brady's body would be handed over to his attorney Robert Makin in preparation for the funeral. Makin had previously given assurances that there were no plans to dump the ashes on Saddleworth Moor, which coroner Alby Howard-Murphy said at the first session was understood to be possible. The city of Glasgow forbade all four of the city's crematoria from cremating Brady's body and then scattering his ashes around the city, as Brady is said to have wanted. This decision is intended to comply with the will of the population. In October 2017, a High Court judge ruled that his attorney no longer had the right to conduct a funeral for Brady. The reason given was that Makin had not discussed his plans for further action openly with the Tameside and Oldham regional authorities and that the matter had now dragged on. It was also decreed that, contrary to Brady's wishes, the fifth movement of Hector Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique should not be played. The judge justified this with reference to the English Wikipedia article of the symphony, saying that the use of this sentence according to its content would hurt the feelings of the bereaved on this occasion. It is true that a deceased person has the right to make such arrangements, but in this case the public's interest in dealing with dignity prevails. Any further funeral related ceremony was also prohibited by the judge. The authorities of Tameside and Oldham have been given the right to look after Brady's body in a swift and dignified manner. Details of this process, which are mentioned in the judgment, were not published in the interest of an orderly process.

Brady's body was transferred from the Royal Liverpool Hospital for cremation to the Southport Crematorium by a Tameside Administration clerk at 9 p.m. on October 25, 2017 . The cremation took place there at 10 p.m. The ashes were then taken in a biodegradable urn from Liverpool Marina to burial at sea, which took place on October 26 at 2:30 am. According to the instructions of the court, there was no music or flower arrangements during the entire process.

Trivia

In 2006 the television film Die Moormörderin von Manchester (English original title: Longford ) was made, in which Andy Serkis played the role of Ian Brady and was nominated for the British Academy Television Award .

literature

• Ian Brady: The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis. Feral House, expanded edition, New York 2015. ISBN 978-1-62731-010-9
• Peter & Julia Murakami: Lexicon of Serial Killers . 10th edition. Ullstein, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-548-35935-9 , pp. 45-47 .

Web links

• Definitely hideous. - Der Spiegel 20/1996, May 9, 1966, pp. 102-106
• Fiona Steel: Murder on the Moors: The Ian Brady and Myra Hindley Story . ( Memento from November 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Crime Library by TruTV (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Peter Stanford: Ian Brady obituary. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Ltd., May 15, 2017, accessed May 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Photographs may yield clues to location of Moors murder victim's remains. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Ltd., June 16, 2013, accessed June 17, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Helen Pidd, Sian Mills, Ian Brady's ashes must not be scattered on moor, says coroner in: The Guardian, May 16, 2017, accessed May 17, 2017
4. ^ Winnie Johnson's fight for Moors Murder son Keith. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , August 18, 2012, accessed May 6, 2016 . 
5. ^ Judith Moritz: Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett's mother dies. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , August 18, 2012, accessed May 6, 2016 . 
6. ^ Peter Gould: Ian Brady seeks public hearing. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , October 7, 2002, accessed May 16, 2017.
7. ↑ Bob Chaundy: Ian Brady: A fight to die. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , March 10, 2000, accessed May 16, 2017.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Dominic Casciani: Moors Murderer Ian Brady says insanity was 'method acting'. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , May 6, 2016, accessed June 25, 2013 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} Dominic Casciani: Ian Brady: Witnessing the tribunal evidence. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , June 25, 2013, accessed June 26, 2013.
10. ↑ Martin Robinson: Moors Murderer Ian Brady moves closer to dying in prison after legal breakthrough. In: Daily Mail . Daily Mail and General Trust , January 29, 2013, accessed May 16, 2017.
11. ↑ ^{a b c} Frances Perraudin: Moors murderer Ian Brady loses court fight over legal representation. In: The Guardian . Guardian News & Media Ltd., February 20, 2017, accessed February 21, 2017.
12. ↑ Dominic Casciani: Moors Murderer Ian Brady loses prison move bid. In: BBC News . British Broadcasting Corporation , June 28, 2013, accessed May 16, 2017.
13. ^ Paul Davies: Moors Murderer Ian Brady dead at age 79. In: ITV News. May 15, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017.
14. ↑ Frances Perraudin, Ian Brady's ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, lawyer confirms , in: The Guardian, May 17, 2017, accessed May 18, 2017
15. ↑ Sarah Whitehead, Ian Brady's psychiatric nurses speak of 'daily miracle' of treating him , in: The Guardian, May 19, 2017, accessed May 20, 2017
16. ↑ Owen Bowcott, No funeral for Moors murderer Ian Brady, judge rules , in: The Guardian, October 13, 2017, accessed October 14, 2017
17. ↑ Moors murderer Ian Brady buried at sea after cremation , in: The Guardian, November 3, 2017, accessed November 3, 2017