MOORS murderer Ian Brady has hit out at health bosses over his treatment as he claimed he does not have long to live.

The serial killer, originally from Glasgow, made the claims in a 750-word letter sent from his hospital bed at Ashworth psychiatric hospital in Merseyside.

In it, he continues to display no remorse for his killings, but says he is "still bedridden and worsening" after breaking his hip and arm in a fall a year ago.

The letter, believed to have been written before Christmas, states: "This cell block is described as a 'discharge ward'; I've been sitting here 30 years... and there's no turnaround of inmates unless in a coffin.

"So it's more accurately a blocked sewer-pipe!"

The 77-year-old also suggests that he wishes has had taken his own life years ago, saying: "Had I divined the future of spending half a century in prison and the final fifteen years being force-fed by nasal tube in an unmonitored zoological cesspit of regression, I would've exited decades ago."

Terry Kilbride, whose 12 year-old brother John was murdered by Brady in November 1963 - condemned the correspondence as "crafty".

Mr Kilbride, of Ashton-under-Lyne, said: "This letter coming through about him not being so well and 'I'm dying, I'm on my deathbed' and all this it's just another ploy to get people to think 'do we feel sorry for him?' Like hell they do."

Forensic psychologist Dr Chris Cowley added the killer may be feeling ignored by the public.

"Brady's a very egocentric person," said Dr Cowley.

"He likes being in the limelight.

"I think probably at this point in time he's a little bit frightened that people aren't remembering him and people have maybe forgotten about him."