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Ian Brady, the Moors murderer, has died aged 79, an NHS spokesman has confirmed. | |
The serial killer was being held at Ashworth Hospital, at a high security psychiatric unit, and receiving palliative care. | |
He had reportedly been ill for some time and had been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 arguing that he should be allowed to die. | He had reportedly been ill for some time and had been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 arguing that he should be allowed to die. |
Following his hunger strikes, Brady demanded a judicial review of the legality of being force-fed. | |
He was jailed for sexually torturing and murdering five children and teenagers aged between ten and 17 in the 1960s. | |
The Glasgow-born killer died without revealing the location of where the last of his child victims were buried, despite last-ditch attempts from the family. | |
Brady's partner and accomplice, Myra Hindley, died in prison in 2002 aged 60. | |
He was sentenced to life in prison in 1966 after being convicted of murdering John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. | |
Together with Hindley he also confessed to the murders of Keith Bennett, 12, and Pauline Reade, 16. |