mikey.
"But what difference does it really make whether he was mentally ill or just evil....the poor children died anyway."
If his "crimes" were due to an "illness" and they were beyond his control, then surely his death would warrant a R.I.P whatever the crimes. You see Ian Brady as baby and you would be unable to say that he was "evil" and one then would assume that he developed an "illness" or that he WAS just evil.
As mentioned in my above post, mental illnesses have lacked financial support and surrounding sympathy and here is a case where a mental illness has been violated by unsympathetic posts.
I agree with naomi....for reasons unknown, he has always had a mental illness and not a "fetish" as suggested by ummmm.
So where is our understanding of mental disorders OR are we just going to offer sympathy to the depressive mental disorders?
A sort of pick and choose depending upon their effect on society.