Moors murderer Brady: I'm super-rational
Updated on 01 July 2009
On the day Greater Manchester Police announce they have ended their search for the remains of moors murder victim Keith Bennett, Channel 4 News Online publishes a recent letter from Ian Brady to the programme.
In a letter sent in February of this year to Channel 4 News, moors murderer Ian Brady tells of his fight to die.
Brady also makes claims that past and recent independent medical reports pronounce him as "not only rational but super-rational" and "in the top 5% of the UK population".
Ian Brady has corresponded with Channel 4 News north of England correspondent Nick Martin several times over the last few years. His letters are passed on via his solicitors and detail his treatment at Ashworth hospital in Liverpool and in particular his hunger strike.
Nick Martin is just one of a handful of authors and journalists Mr Brady corresponds with.
from Ian Stewart Brady
Ashworth hospital in Liverpool
"Naturally I would agree to any media proposed interview and do so. But, since commencement of this force-fed by nasal tube hunger strike now in its eighth year, this politically expedient Ashworth regime, twice condemned to closure by two judicially chaired public inquiries comprised of medical experts, has kept me isolated even from writers and authors I have corresponded with for years.
"This axiomatically, as Ashworth boasts a regressive penal regime fraudulently overmanned to several times the per capita requirement of even maximum security prisons, it is understandably adverse to any public scrutiny or accountability which might disclose that the consequent annual cost of keeping even a tramp in Ashworth is over £320,000.
"This desire to avoid public accountability resulted in Ashworth taking exorbitant multiple court actions over a period of two years to oppose my previously granted public MHRT [mental health review tribunal] and for the same self serving purpose is now opposing my second application for same.
"While Ashworth relies upon psychiatric smear and innuendo to discredit all valid complaints and charges, past and recent independent medical reports pronounce me as 'not only rational but super-rational' and 'in the top 5% of the UK population.'"
yours sincerely,
I s Brady
