Ian Brady Is Dead

[DTCwordfan]

Do not rip.

Just died. BBC News @10.

[douglas9401]

A good day to bury bad people.

Or scatter their ashes at the municipal dump.

[mallyh]

not sorry that scum has died ,flush his ashes down the toilet

[Smowball]

I think where there is no doubt whatsoever of guilt , in cases like this it should be the death penalty. It costs us hundreds of thousands of pounds to keep these people locked up for years.

[choux]

Despite his failing health, as long as he lived there also lived the desperate though slight hope that all of his and Hindley's victims could be found. For that reason only I think today is a sad one for many.

I read earlier today on the BBC news that Brady was in very poor health and receiving palliative care. Normally I would not wish for such a person to be kept alive but as he wanted to die ...

Not sure if the families of the victims will get any form of closure from this but I pray for them and the children.

[david small]

Th 7th level of Hell is it's new address.

[Barmaid]

Murdo, let's allow people to speak figuratively. I have no real truck with religion, that was just the best way I could express myself at the time.

I missed you. For a whie.......

[sunny-dave]

I'm even prepared to suspend my disbelief in religion, if it results in a red hot poker being stuck up Brady's fundament at regular intervals for the rest of eternity.

[clyde59]

Good

[Jackdaw33]

51 years in prison. I wonder how much that has cost compared to the hangman's fee.

[Eleena]

So haunting this case. So sad Keith Bennett has never been found. I believe Brady thought himself of superior intelligence that could act outside of normal acceptable behavior, egotistical in the extreme, a very dangerous mentality. Myra Hindley? How do you explain her?

[Eleena]

choux, I agree totally.

[NoMercy]

Have you tried Venison burgers, Talbs?

Yummers....

[waterboatman]

Good!

[Cloverjo]

Re Barmaid's comment. I agree. Keith's poor mother died not knowing what happened to her boy's body. Probably no one will ever know now.

[Sqad]

I thought that last week we had threads on mental health because mental illness was at last being recognised, but here we have a thread castigating a man who's deeds were claimed to be due to a mental illness and died incarcerated in a Mental institution.
It is a natural topic for celebration I suppose, but could one see a bit of irony here?

[ummmm]

Was he mentally ill when he committed the crimes or just sadistic?

He started his sentence in main stream prison. I thought he was sectioned because of his hunger strike.

They should have let him die but they were holding out hoping he'd reveal where Keith Bennet was buried.

[Jackdaw33]

Not quite the case, Sqad. Brady was convicted as sane and spent 19 years in a normal prison before going doolally.

[ummmm]

Was he even doolally? He'd rather die than spend the rest of his life in prison.....so maybe he got the ultimate punishment.

[Jackdaw33]

If he is given a Christian funeral I feel sorry for the poor clergyman who has to officiate.