Moors murderer Ian Brady suffers seizure
Moors murderer Ian Brady is taken to hospital after suffering a seizure, his lawyer confirms.
Brady has spent the last 25 years at the high-security Ashworth hospital in Merseyside. A spokesman for the hospital said: “Ian Brady, a patient at Ashworth hospital, has been admitted to a general hospital after becoming acutely physically unwell on the ward.
“He is undergoing a series of tests and as a precaution he will be kept in.
“Ian Brady, 74, is in a single room and will be accompanied in that room at all times by two nurses from Ashworth Hospital. Two other members of Ashworth hospital staff will also be on duty outside his room throughout his stay in the general hospital.
“It is too soon to provide a comment about his condition.”
Brady has been tube-fed since refusing food 12 years ago. He was jailed with his accomplice Myra Hindley in 1966 for the murders of two children in the Manchester area, Lesley Ann Downey, 10 and Edward Evans, 17. Brady was convicted of killing 12 year old John Kilbride.
They were suspected of being responsible for the killings of two others and subsequently confessed to murdering Keith Bennett, 12, and Pauline Reade, 16. Their victims’ bodies were buried on Saddleworth Moor.
Hindley, died in jail in 2002.