The body of the Moors Murderer, Ian Brady, must be disposed of ‘without any ceremony’, a UK High Court Judge has ruled today.
The infamous serial killer died at Broadmoor Hospital on May 15 last, aged 79, but his body has not yet been disposed of.
Legal wranglings have so far prevented Brady’s remains to be cremated, and his solicitor has not yet made any arrangements to that effect. It is understood that any further decisions regarding the disposal of Brady’s remains will be taken by the High Court, rather than his legal representative.
Ian Brady, together with his lover Myra Hindley, tortured and killed five children in the 1960s
The victims were: Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride, and Pauline Reade. All the bodies, except for Bennett’s, were found buried in shallow graves in the Saddleworth Moors near Manchester.
Some arguments centered around a request to play the fifth movement (“Songe d’une nuit du sabbat“, Dream of the Night of the Sabbath) of Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique during Brady’s cremation.
A High Court Judge has now ruled that Brady’s remains must be disposed as soon as possible ‘with no ceremony’.