Ian Brady (Moors murderer) wants to die, should he be allowed to?

[RATTER15]

I didnt realise that he is being tube fed since being on hunger strike 12 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18739237

Im a little surprised they are permitted to feed him by tube, claiming his insanity, im sure they are acting within the law but I really dont know how!

[RATTER15]

MrsMaverick, >>i dont think brady is insane just pure evil<<

and you dont think this evilness could stem from his insanity?

They dont lock up Evil people in mental institutions purely because they are evil people. there is a very strict protocol.

[jackthehat]

Apparently, he has been diagnosed with 57 separate mental disorders over the years.

He is (or, rather, was due to challenge) challenging the fact he is insane in the next couple of weeks, as a first-step to being sent to a prison.

[RATTER15]

Well his offences were certainly not the type of crime carried out by a sane person.

[mrsmaveric]

ratter...was he insane when he murdered those poor children yes or no??...you cant just switch insanity on and off...if he is insane then he stays in broadmoor...because he is saying that he is NOT insane that would give him the right to be transferred to a prison and that would mean he could have his wish and die..you cant be insane 1 day and not the next..just to suit your needs..

[RATTER15]

I only ask these questions as I have an interest in the legalities of the mental health issues.

[RATTER15]

mrsmaveric, the decision is not his, that will be decided by the courts and a specialist panel I imagine.

[naomi24]

I can't see how anyone who commits such crimes isn't insane.

[RATTER15]

I agree Naomi, that would be my guess as well.

[mrsmaveric]

well i hope they make the right choice ratter...

[mike11111]

So, a minor transgression, guilty as f8ck, lock him up for life. Heinous perverted crimes? Clearly insane, more deserving of treatment than punishment, put him in a nice hospital. Fortunately the M'Naghten rules draw strict boundaries around the notion of criminal insanity.

[RATTER15]

mike11111: "So, a minor transgression, guilty as f8ck, lock him up for life"

Since when have we done that in this country?

[Jeza]

So do perverted and insane mean the same thing.I don't think so.

[ludwig]

// Ian Brady (Moors murderer) wants to die, should he be allowed to? //

If that's what he wants, no.

[TTG]

Ditto ludwig.

[emmie]

read rather an intriguing but disturbing piece about a doctor who has befriended Brady, not perhaps a good word befriended, but he has certainly got to know him, who reckons that Brady confessed to more murders and where Keith Bennett was buried. I am of the opinion that Brady is where he belongs, because if he gets his wish to go to prison he will starve himself to death. There have been far more victims of his and Myra Hindleys crimes, namely the families who lost their children, any number of whom have passed away, not perhaps through old age, but unresolved grief.

[emmie]

I also don't believe he is insane, if anyone has read the transcripts of their case, he was sane then as he is now. It makes for chilling reading.

[tonyav]

Let this ultra low life piece of sh!t die, the World will be a better place without him.

[emmie]

tonyav, they won't do that because that would mean this piece of sh1t has won. He chooses his own demise, unlike the little children he and Hindley murdered. For those perhaps not on here but certainly in the media have wondered why he is still in an institution, suggest that listen if they could bear it to the tapes of one of his victims begging for her life. They should have both been hanged.

[mike11111]

Can anyone remember the late Lord Longford who befriended Myra Hindley and was a passionate campaigner for her release?

[mike11111]

em10, if you read my previous post on this thread you will see that it was a mere accident of history that these two escaped the gallows.