Give evil Brady his wish … let him die

As an impressionable young lad growing up in Glasgow, the bogeyman came in many forms and held many fears.

This was especially so when TV started to dominate our living room. Daleks, Cybermen and Martian Ice Warriors paralysed me with fright. Vincent Price in the Pit And The Pendulum and classic series like The Twilight Zone often had me scurrying to bed shaking in absolute terror.

But there was one image that was always particularly chilling. A picture that, even as an ill-informed child, I would notice sent a glimmer of fear and revulsion across my parents’ eyes fear that would turn to cold anger and have them pulling us closer to them.

It’s a photograph that has left its indelible mark on the minds of millions of parents and children especially those families whose lives were brutally ripped apart by actions too horrific to list.

It’s that of the twin faces of evil, the Moors Murderers Myra Hindley and Ian Brady. Real life monsters.

They were then and still are regarded as two of the most brutal killers ever to have stalked the planet. If there’s such a thing as Hell I’m sure there’s place on Lucifer’s lap for both of them.

Hindley died in 2002 claiming she had changed her ways and should have been given freedom. Pah!

As for Brady, he is sadly still with us. Last week he was, incredibly, given a public platform through a mental health tribunal to vent his ridiculous claim that his human rights are being infringed because he’s been ordered to stay in a high security psychiatric hospital instead of a prison where, if his appeal had been successful, he would have been able to go and die.

Quite apart from the fact that I think Brady and Hindley and should have been hung, drawn and quartered for their crimes in 1966, why was this manipulative cancer allowed anywhere near a tribunal?

He has never once, in more than 50 years, given a clue to the location of Keith Bennett’s body, tormenting to the grave the poor boy’s mother.

He has also never shown one bit of remorse for any of the five murders he committed, incredibly saying that to do that “allows insanity”.

Well, I think it’s insane that we continue to treat monsters like Brady, Sutcliffe, Black, Bridger and the like with kid gloves, granting them rights, human or otherwise, when they have such open contempt for those of others.

So enough of this charade. Let’s stop dancing to the monster’s tune and paying for his upkeep (£14 million and counting). He should have been granted his final wish his death wish.

That I’m all in favour of . . . with one slight addendum that his death be as brutal and painful as those his victims suffered.

Then and only then would real justice be seen to have been served.