Ian Brady, the infamous Moors Murderer has died in a secure hospital on Merseyside. Brady, together with his accomplice Myra Hindley, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960’s. Four of their victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor, near Oldham.
I can remember reading a book back in the 1990’s written by the mother of one of the child victims, Lesley Ann Downey. On the night of her disappearance Lesley had gone happily off to a local fairground, and when she did not return home her worried mother searched the fairground in vain, while the song ‘Let’s Dance’, the one sung by Chris Montez, played on one of the rides in the background. Even today when I hear this song, I still think of that poor mother’s anguish.
I don’t suppose that Brady had a last minute stab of conscience and revealed where the remains of Keith Bennett are buried, to give Keith’s family some kind of closure. They have waited over 50 years to find out, and Keith’s mother Winnie died without ever knowing her son’s whereabouts. One of the doctors who had spoken to Brady every day says the murderer told him information which he will publish in a book. Surprise surprise; am I being cynical when I wonder how many literary agents will be beating a path to that doctor’s door in order to get their hands on possibly the next best-seller?
When she was dying about 15 years ago, Myra Hindley was a patient in the hospital I used to work in. A hospital grapevine is very efficient, and within a few hours the majority of workers knew that she was there. A police guard stayed outside her side-room at all times, and after she died two guards were on duty outside the mortuary for the whole time until her body had been collected by the funeral directors. I think Brady and Hindley were possibly amongst the two most hated people on the entire planet. If there’s any kind of afterlife, I dread to think where the pair of them are going to end up.
Felicia Denise said:
I remember reading about the murders decades ago, and it’s still heartbreaking. Keith’s mother dying without ever knowing his whereabouts makes her another victim of Brady and Hindley.
As for the doctor, is he really any better than Brady? He gets his fifteen minutes of fame at the cost of someone else’s pain? I cannot imagine what Keith’s surviving family has gone through all these years, especially the amount of press given the NATURAL deaths of murderers. Now a book is forthcoming? They’ll never know peace – and that is reprehensible.
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Stevie Turner said:
I don’t know if the book has been written yet, but I read on Google that the doctor will be writing one based on info that Brady told him.
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Stevie Turner said:
For some reason Brady would never tell the police where Keith Bennett was buried. All I can think of is that perhaps he told the doctor, who was bound by the patient’s wishes not to divulge the information until after his death. But now, why not just tell the police instead of writing a book? Hmm…
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franklparker said:
(Responding to Clive’s last comment) It’s not so much that he’s making money out of what he has been told by a patient – after all, if we can believe what he says, the patient has indicated his willingness for the information to be revealed post mortem. It’s the fact that the Dr. will be making money out of the suffering of his patient’s victims.
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Stevie Turner said:
Yes, I was surprised when I read it too.
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Clive said:
According to the tabloids they are rotting in hell. I’m not a believer in the afterlife but in their cases I’m prepared to make an exception. The worrying thing now is the doctor attempting to profit from what he was told by Brady. More a Hypocritic than Hippocratic oath.
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Stevie Turner said:
True. I picked up this piece of info when I was researching on Google. Apparently Brady had told him the book could not be published until after his death.
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Clive said:
I don’t see how the doctor can square that with his profession. Making money out of a notorious patient, dead or alive, is indefensible.
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