If there is one person whom the world will not miss, it is surely the vile murderer, Ian Brady.
Brady, together with his collaborator, Myra Hindley, abducted, tortured and murdered 5 children in the 1960s. Both were eventually caught, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment following a trial in May 1966; now, Brady has joined his accomplice in oblivion by dying in the secure psychiatric hospital in which he had been imprisoned for the last 32 years.
For many years, Brady tormented the family of one of their victims, Keith Bennett, by intimating that he could identify where the child was buried but without ever doing so; Bennett's mother died without knowing where her son's body lay.
Brady was undoubtedly insane and his lifelong incarceration was well deserved. However, is it right that he and Hindley were kept at the expense of the state for so many years ? For crimes as heinous as theirs, surely they should have suffered the ultimate penalty and been sent to the gallows, if only the do-gooder brigade hadn't managed to get it abolished in 1965, the same year as Brady and Hindley committed their appalling acts.
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