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A security officer has been jailed for 20 months after smuggling a camera into a high security hospital to try and sell photos of Ian Brady. | A security officer has been jailed for 20 months after smuggling a camera into a high security hospital to try and sell photos of Ian Brady. |
Alan Hagan, 48, of Liverpool, was convicted over his dealings with News of the World reporter Lucy Panton in 2008 while he worked at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside. | Alan Hagan, 48, of Liverpool, was convicted over his dealings with News of the World reporter Lucy Panton in 2008 while he worked at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside. |
He denied misconduct in a public office but was convicted at the Old Bailey. | He denied misconduct in a public office but was convicted at the Old Bailey. |
Moors Murderer Brady has been at Ashworth for 30 years. | |
Sentencing, judge Mark Lucraft QC rejected a call from his lawyer for a suspended sentence, saying only immediate custody was appropriate. | |
He said: "At Ashworth, where staff deal with some of the most vulnerable and dangerous people, the confidentiality of patients should be safeguarded." | |
The judge said Brady "took against staff and became uncommunicative when he thought information was being leaked to the paper." | |
The court heard Hagan, of Galston Close, Liverpool, was paid £1,000 for a story headlined "Suicide Brady hid pills in his sock" in February 2008, shortly after he first made contact with Ms Panton. | |
He wanted to take revenge on bosses at the psychiatric hospital for his treatment as an employee, and discussed payment of £50,000 for the images. | |
Even though he did manage to smuggle a camera into the hospital, the resulting pictures were not good enough quality and they were not published. | |
Brady, 77, who has been a patient at Ashworth since 1985, tortured and murdered five children with Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002. | |
He was jailed for three murders in 1966. The pair later confessed to another two murders. | |
Earlier in the mitigation, Michael Duck QC said Hagan was a man of "positive good character" who had not instigated the plan to get pictures of Brady or actively sought payment. |
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