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Inquest into death of UK serial killer Ian Brady held in Southport
THE inquest into the death of the
sick and twisted UK serial killer, Ian Brady, who tortured and murdered 5
children Aided by his girlfriend Myra Hindley, was held at Sefton Coroner's
Office, in Southport Town Hall. The child killer died at Ashworth Hospital
on 15 May 2017. Then on Tuesday, 16 May 2017, Coroner Christopher Sumner
said that the killer's body would not be released until assurances have been
given that his ashes won't be scattered on Saddleworth Moor. The moors are
the location he and Myra Hindley dumped the bodies of their victims. Mr
Sumner said:- "I have no legal means of making that an order, but I
believe it is right and proper, the correct moral judgement to make."
On 17 May 2017, the inquest into his death has heard that Ian Brady's ashes
will not be scattered on Saddleworth Moor. Merseyside Police's
Assistant Chief Constable Julie Cooke said in a statement after the
hearing:- "Brady has long been a person of public interest who
throughout his lifetime was reviled by the public due to the appalling and
heinous crimes he committed. In view of the abhorrent nature of the offences
he committed and in order to protect the public interest and the relatives
of his victims, we made representations to the coroner in a bid to ensure
that the remains would be disposed of in a manner which may not offend those
interests." Ian Brady, in all his time since he was court and placed
in the Maghull psychiatric institute, has never revealed where Keith's
remains were buried, even though Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson begged Brady
to do so. It added to her unbearable suffering and she sadly died without
being able to give him a Christian funeral, in 2012. In 1986 in a bid to
find Keith's body Police even escorted Brady to Saddleworth Moor, but sadly
Officers suspected he had treated it only as a "day out." For
decades, Brady suggested he knew where Keith was buried and could lead the
Police there, but this never happened. If he knew, Brady has now taken that
secret with him to the grave. This was 1 of the most horrific crimes ever
committed in the UK and it still resonates throughout Manchester today;
indeed all over Britain and beyond. The photo is of Coroner Christopher
Sumner with an assistant as they left Southport Town Hall, on Wednesday, 17
May 2017. |
