Replying to 50. Ian Brady

maryportfuncity, on 14 January 2013 - 11:35 PM, said:

Brady probably not. Hindley's a definite though, we've got that winning mixture of repugnant morbidity and provincial tweeness that seemed to occupy her brain most of the time.

Spade_Cooley, on 01 January 2013 - 12:31 PM, said:

"They don't like the feeding tubes up 'em."

Just a thought, if there'd been a Deathlist in the early sixties, would Brady have been a poster? He did have a sick sense of humour that extended to grafting cheery Christmas songs onto tapes of torture and commenting that one of his hacked up victims was "a brainy bastard".

Spade_Cooley, on 01 January 2013 - 12:31 PM, said:

Not quite the Marcus Harvey 1995 Myra Hindley painting made from a child's hand prints, but a rather good morph all the same.

The Moors Murderer & Dunn on one imagine, who'd of thought it a few months back?

I call this artwork "Number 50".

I don't think they'll let him croak - Doesn't he still need to give the details up the burial place of Keith Bennett? Last I read was they were going through old psycho interviews to see if he gave a clue.

Hopefully they'll feed him to the pigs when he does finally go

He's not a traidtional 'con', he's been in Ashworth Hospital (formerly Park Lane) since 1985. Its a secure mental institute, for want of a better term.

Basically, he's a mental case, under constant supervision and force fed three times a day. He's been fighting for his right to die for decades.

To be fair, he actually trys to do some good nowadays. He famously offered one of his kidneys to 'anyone who needed it' and i think it was Save The Children who rejected a significant donation from him on the grounds of taste (it's mentioned in a very good, recent biography of Myra Hindley called 'One of your own').

He spent a lot of time in his younger days translating braille books as well. In fact, i'm sure i remember him having some input to a new braille system or something.

Anyway, he's in my DDP because he was reported as circling the drain a while back just before Keith Bennet...