Ian Brady - Right To Die?

[DTCwordfan]

Views please? No doubt controversial...

My view - "You tell us where Keith Bennett's body is, and when found, we'll let you die in prison."

[Quizmonster]

As Sandy suggested, how many of us could isolate a particular spot on a huge moorland area after about half a century, unless it had some unique identifying feature? Consequently, trying to make him 'reveal' such a place as a condition for a transfer to prison is a non-starter.
Let's remember also, he wants to go to prison solely because he will - he believes - be allowed to starve himself to death. I don't know what the legal position is on that idea today or whether it has changed since IRA prisoners achieved just that in the past. Whatever...he should certainly not be allowed to do anything at all which relieves his misery.

[Mosaic]

hmmm. Abandoning all my pinkish grauniad-reading tendencies, I suggest he is left in a sealed cage on Saddleworth Moor starting in September and that nature be allowed to take its course. I've had it with taxation keeping the creep alive but a nice easing-out with an armful of strong sedatives is too good.

[andy-hughes]

Mosaic - once again the notion of keeping a lifer alive being a waste of money is raised.

Personally, I would prefer my taxes to be used to keep a murderer incarcerated, because the alternative is capital punishment, and i cannot condone the punishment of one (or more) murders with another.

[Rosetta]

If he is considered sane and transferred to prison there is nothing to stop him coming off the hunger strike. If so, it raises the grotesque scenario of whether he could subsequently ask for parole. Personally, I doubt that the Tribunal will agree to his current application, its not many that are *cured* from a personality disorder which I think his diagnosis is. I hope he stays where he is