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Moors Murderer Ian Brady dies | Moors Murderer Ian Brady dies |
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Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who killed five children with Myra Hindley, has died aged 79. | 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. | 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." | |
Notorious murderer who refused to show remorse | Notorious murderer who refused to show remorse |
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. | Four of the victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham, Greater Manchester. |
Brady was jailed in 1966 for the killings of 12-year-old John Kilbride, Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, and Edward Evans, 17. | |
Appeals over remains | |
Almost 20 years later, in 1985, he admitted the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, who was 12. | |
Brady has never revealed where Keith Bennett's remains were buried, despite numerous appeals for him to do so. | Brady has never revealed where Keith Bennett's remains were buried, despite numerous appeals for him to do so. |
Brady had been on successive hunger strikes since 1999, arguing he should be allowed to die, but had been force-fed because he was considered mentally ill. | |
He campaigned for several years to be moved from Ashworth to a Scottish prison where he would not be force-fed and be allowed to die if he wished. | |
A Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said Brady died at 18:03 BST. | |
The spokesman was unable to confirm the cause of Brady's death, but said he had been given oxygen for a while. | |
Brady was not found dead in his room, the spokesman said, but he was unable to confirm if anyone was with him when he died, adding: "Quite possibly. I don't know." |