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Ian Brady's body will not be released until assurances are made his ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, a coroner has ruled. | Ian Brady's body will not be released until assurances are made his ashes will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor, a coroner has ruled. |
Brady, 79, who tortured and killed five children with lover Myra Hindley, buried four of his victims on the moor. | |
He died of obstructive pulmonary disease on Monday, an inquest heard. | |
Senior coroner Christopher Sumner said he knew he did not have the legal power to make such a request but believed it was the "correct moral judgement". | Senior coroner Christopher Sumner said he knew he did not have the legal power to make such a request but believed it was the "correct moral judgement". |
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The serial killer was jailed in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. | |
In 1985 he also admitted to the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, who was 12. | |
He died at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric unit in Merseyside, where he had been detained since 1985. | |
Opening an inquest at Southport town hall, Mr Sumner said he also wanted assurances a funeral director and crematorium willing to take Brady's body had been found. | |
Coroner's officer Alby Howard-Murphy said Brady's cause of death was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cor pulmonale, a condition that causes the right side of the heart to fail. | |
Brady had been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 and the inquest heard he had been fed through a nasogastric tube. | |
His condition deteriorated over the last two weeks and the tube was removed on 11 May, the hearing was told. | |
The inquest was adjourned until 29 June. |