Moors Murderer Ian Brady, 75, Storms out of Tribunal Claiming Evidence is 'ad nauseam'
- Ian Brady's pen taken away last year after he used it as a 'potential weapon'
- Murderer claimed he was 'afraid' of being attacked by other patients
- Hospital lawyer says it shows he has delusions linked with schizophrenia
- He walked out of the hearing claiming he had 'listened to this ad nauseam'
- Child killer's mental health tribunal began yesterday
- He wants to get out of his high security hospital and die in jail
- Brady has been on hunger strike for a decade and is force-fed via a tube
By Daily Mail UK, 18 June 2013
Brady, sketched at the tribunal yesterday taking notes, is not allowed a pen while in the secure hospital
in Merseyside, after he used it as a potential weapon
Moors Murderer Ian Brady walked out of his mental health tribunal today, complaining he had 'listened to this ad nauseam'.
But he was quickly slapped down by the judge who warned him 'we will hear the evidence.'
The child killer even suggested a panel member had fallen asleep at one point during the hearing.
The tribunal is being held because Brady wants to be judged sane and moved from maximum security Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside, where he is being force fed, to a prison, where he believes he will be free to starve himself to death.
The 75-year-old complained that he had heard all the evidence before as a criminal psychologist was questioned over several hours about his mental health.
At the end of Dr Adrian Grounds's evidence, Judge Robert Atherton, chair of the three-man tribunal panel, asked if Brady wanted to say something.
Brady, wearing dark sunglasses, a dark jacket, white shirt and tie, spoke in a low, gravelly Scottish accent.
Many of his words were inaudible.
Referring to Dr Cameron Boyd, who sits on the tribunal panel, Brady said: 'It even apparently lulls him to sleep.'
The mental health tribunal itself is taking place behind closed doors
at Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside
Two faces of a killer: A sketch of Brady, feeding tube in nose, and in 1965
Brady said he had left the tribunal for around two hours this morning because the lawyers and the witness were going over old ground.
'I've listened to this ad nauseam. I know it by heart,' Brady said.
But Judge Atherton cut him off, saying: 'We will hear the evidence.
'If we take the view someone is wasting time you can be pretty certain they will be told.'
The hearing is being held in a room inside Ashworth and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre.
Moors murderer Ian Brady was glimpsed today in the tribunal room at the maximum security Ashworth
Hospital in Merseyside. He wore a pair of dark spectacles and had what looked like a tube up his nose
Court artist sketch of Moors Murderer Ian Brady (left) appearing via video at the mental health tribunal,
the first time he has been seen in public for decades
Link: Proceedings are being relayed by video to Press and relatives of Brady and fellow
killer Myra Hindley's victims at a court 40 miles away in Manchester
Moors murder victim Lesley Ann Downey, who was just 10 when she was sadistically murdered
The tribunal heard evidence today about his behaviour inside the hospital.
He only comes out of his room at night and shuns contact with others, partly due to his superiority complex.
But he also fears other patients and habitually carried a pen between his knuckles as an improvised weapon, until it was taken away.
As well as his "nocturnal" existence, Brady was described as contemptuous of his peers. He shows anger that can erupt over minor matters and unleashes verbal tirades against staff and other patients, the tribunal heard.
He also targets individuals, both staff and patients, attempts to manipulate others, bypasses security and bends the rules to suit himself.
He will only deal with people "high up" the hospital hierarchy - consistent with his narcissistic personality disorder, the tribunal heard.
Brady, who has been on hunger strike since 1999, claims he has faked psychotic episodes by 'acting' in the past.
The hearing was told of hospital records from January 29 this year stating how Brady has now 'almost totally isolated himself'.
Innocent: Keith Bennett (above) and John Kilbride were murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.
Keith's body is still missing. Brady has never revealed the whereabouts of the 12-year-old's body
Grim search: Police scour Saddleworth Moor for the bodies of the children killed by
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in this 1986 file picture
Ian Brady (right) arriving at court by taxi in 1966.
He is Britain's longest-serving prisoner
Evil: Myra Hindley died in hospital aged 60 after
suffering respiratory failure in 2002
Following a seizure last July, hospital notes recorded him saying: 'If I have to, I will never let them see me in pain. I will act as if I have not a care in the world.'
Brady is currently 'nursed' in the hospital setting because he is regarded as being severely mentally ill.
But if he was deemed fit to be returned to a jail, the regime would be much less 'tolerant and flexible' of his behaviour and the abuse he metes out to staff and others, the tribunal heard.
Dr Grounds, a criminologist and forensic psychologist called by Brady's legal team to support his case, told the hearing Brady wished to have control over the manner and timing of his death but that view did not arise out of mental illness.
Brady reasoned he had no prospects of release or of a better life.
He said Brady had a lifelong severe personality disorder which had not diminished at Ashworth Hospital.
However, psychotic symptoms of mental illness he had shown in prison had reduced. He said it was possible he could relapse if transferred to prison but added that the prison system could manage his current condition.
A further review to decide if he needed to be returned to hospital could take place if his mental health deteriorated, Dr Grounds added.
Brady and partner Myra Hindley murdered five youngsters in the 1960s, burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor above Manchester.
Both were jailed for life at Chester Assizes in 1966. Hindley died in jail in November 2002 at the age of 60.
END
Brady and his sick twisted girlfriend Myra Hindley, kept the children captive,
brutally tortured and sexually abused them, before finally murdering them
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