Ian Brady, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ian Brady

British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1938

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 15-May-2017

Profession: butcher, serial killer

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


Show Famous Birthdays Today, United Kingdom

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Ian Brady

  • The Moors murders were carried out by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Manchester, England.
  • The victims were five children—Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans—aged between 10 and 17, at least four of whom were sexually assaulted.
  • Two of the victims were discovered in graves dug on Saddleworth Moor; a third grave was discovered there in 1987, more than twenty years after Brady and Hindley's trial.
  • Bennett's body is also thought to be buried there, but despite repeated searches it remains undiscovered. The pair were charged only in the deaths of Kilbride, Downey and Evans, and received life sentences.
  • The investigation was reopened in 1985, after Brady was reported as having confessed to the murders of Reade and Bennett.
  • After confessing to these additional murders, Brady and Hindley were taken separately to Saddleworth Moor to assist in the search for the graves. Characterised by the press as "the most evil woman in Britain", Hindley made several appeals against her life sentence, claiming she was a reformed woman and no longer a danger to society, but was never released.
  • She died in 2002, aged 60.
  • Brady was diagnosed as a psychopath in 1985 and confined in the high-security Ashworth Hospital.
  • He made it clear that he never wished to be released, and repeatedly asked to be allowed to die.
  • He died in 2017, at Ashworth, aged 79. The murders were the result of what Malcolm MacCulloch, professor of forensic psychiatry at Cardiff University, called a "concatenation of circumstances".
  • The trial judge, Mr Justice Fenton Atkinson, described Brady and Hindley in his closing remarks as "two sadistic killers of the utmost depravity".
  • Their crimes were the subject of extensive worldwide media coverage.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also