MOORS murderer Ian Brady has spoken for the first time after losing his bid to be moved from a psychiatric hospital to a Scottish prison.
The Glasgow-born child killer wrote a rambling letter to Channel 5 News criticising the decision to keep him at Ashworth Hospital.
Brady, 75, was locked away after he and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children and buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor, near Manchester.
In the letter Brady criticises the decision to keep him at the hospital, the witnesses who gave evidence, and the public money spent on the tribunal. He writes: "£250,000 wasted by Ashworth medical mediocrities manipulating a politically motivated tribunal... designed to distract public attention from the lack of reasoned argument and pertinent evidence."
The note was sent to Channel 5 News after its reporter Julian Druker – who attended Brady's mental health tribunal – wrote to him.
Brady, who has long-term paranoid schizophrenia, also criticises the health professionals who gave evidence at the tribunal.
He remarks: "The pathetic petty abuse... rubberstamp witnesses employed to smear, discredit and distract, revealed more about Ashworth's collective culture of applied ignorance and malice than it did about me.."
Mersey Care NHS Trust which runs Ashworth Hospital refuted Brady's claims, saying: "Ashworth Hospital takes the physical health needs of all its patients seriously and offers on-site medical treatment as well as arranged visits for treatment with specialists at general hospitals."
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