Moors Murderer Brady: '12 Warders Attacked Me'

Ian Brady has told his mental health tribunal he went on hunger strike after being "attacked" by 12 warders where he had his wrist broken.

The Moors Murderer, 75, recalled he was in his room and heard chanting of "do not resist". He said the warders were dressed in riot gear and balaclavas and held him down for an hour.

He said he was moved by the riot gear staff to another ward at the high-security Ashworth Hospital and then the next day - September 30, 1999 - began his hunger strike.

Wearing a dark suit, white shirt and tie and his customary dark glasses, Brady is speaking at length in public for the first time since 1966 as he attempts to be transferred from Ashworth to prison.

Brady said it would be "easy" to cope in jail if he was kept locked up 24 hours a day and kept apart from other prisoners.

The child killer, speaking in a low, halting Scottish accent, is giving evidence to a tribunal sitting at the hospital on Merseyside where he has been held for 28 years.

Brady described his life behind bars, how he enjoys "eclectic, freewheeling conversation", how he studied German and psychology and how he walks up and down in his cell reciting Shakespeare and Plato.

Brady said he had "more freedom" in prison - he spent time in  Durham, Parkhurst and Wormwood Scrubs. He remembered mixing with the Kray twins, the Great Train Robbers and various terrorists.

He also alluded to his time as a barber, when he claimed he would trim the beards of prison staff.

Brady made reference to his notoriety as a prisoner, saying the public and media are obsessed with the case.

Brady is one of Britain's most notorious killers

He said: "Why are they still talking about Jack the Ripper, after a century? It fascinates them so, the dramatic background, the fog, cobbled streets. The moors is the same thing... Wuthering Heights, Hound Of The Baskervilles."

Sky's Tom Parmenter said: "He was asked his mental health which is crucial to the hearing because it is his claim that he should not be in a high-security hospital but instead an ordinary prison.

"He was asked about talking to himself in jail, and he said when he was in solitary confinement he would memorise the pages of Shakespeare or Plato and then recite them in his cell.

"He said if he drops a glasses case in a corridor and mutters to himself that would be seized by an opportunistic member of staff and used as evidence. But he also said at the tribunal 'Who doesn't talk to themselves?'"

His lawyer Nathalie Lieven QC asked him directly why he wanted to leave Ashworth. Brady said originally it was a "decent and progressive" regime when it was the "star" of the specialist hospitals such as Broadmoor and Rampton.

But he complained that the regime changed when Ashworth went from being run by the Home Office to being under the control of the NHS.

"Security ruled care," he said. "Of course, that was not official policy, it was covert." He described Ashworth, and the like, now as a "penal warehouse".

The last time Brady spoke so publicly was in court in Chester when he was convicted 47 years ago and jailed for life for three murders in the 1960s.

Brady, who has been on hunger strike since 1999, has previously said he wants to starve himself to death in jail where he cannot be force fed.

Currently, he is fed through a tube in his nose, although the panel heard on Monday he is actually eating other foods and makes himself toast every morning.

Myra Hindley was also convicted of child killings

Since 2002 Brady has repeatedly asked for a public hearing which he said would provide "true independence", the tribunal has heard.

His legal team say he has a severe narcissistic personality disorder but is not mentally ill and could be treated in prison rather than hospital.

But Ashworth say Brady is still chronically mentally ill and remains a paranoid schizophrenic who needs around-the-clock care.

He has refused medication and therapy for his mental disorders since 2000 as he is "wholly resistant" to any treatment and now tries to hide his mental illness, the tribunal panel was told.

Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, were convicted of luring children and teenagers to their deaths, with their victims sexually tortured before being buried on Saddleworth Moor.

Brady was given life for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and 17-year-old Edward Evans.

Hindley was convicted of killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John's murder, and jailed for life.

Both later confessed to the murders of 16-year-old Pauline Reade - whose body was found in 1987 - and 12-year-old Keith Bennett whose body has not been discovered.

Hindley died in hospital, still a prisoner, in November 2002 at the age of 60.

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