Just think what this low-life has cost the taxpayer over the last 40-odd years.
The authorities are responsible for him whilst he is imprisoned and as with any other prisoner, it is not in the public interest to allow a prisoner to kill himself. If they do, they are partly responsible for his death. Outside prison you are entirely responsible for yourself but whilst you're there, they have a responsibility too, same as a school is "in loco parentis" (in place of the parents) while children are there. This is why all deaths in prison automatically result in an inquest, partly to see if prison maltreatment had anything to do with it. If Brady is allowed to starve himself to death, what's to stop prisons allowing any other prisoner to hang themselves? The suicide rate in prison is in fact quite high compared with the "outside world", often occurring in the first 24 hours during the initial shock of being there, and prisons try as hard as they can to prevent it.
UK law doesn't work the way Richard says it does. It's certainly true that a life sentence gives you years to think if you have any kind of conscience, but the real reason we have it for murder is simply that we abolished the death penalty. It's not out of spite, it's just the strongest sentence we have.
They are keeping him alive in the hope that he will reveal where he buried one of his victims and give the family the closure they have been seeking for a great many years .
If Brady has suffered for his crimes he should keep suffering till he dies he deserves nothing better.
Winnie Johnson wanted to bury her son Keith but Ian Brady wouldn't reveal the grave site. He wouldn't give her the one thing she wanted before she died. Why should he get what he wants?
Show us Keith Bennetts burial site, we can take him out & give him a Christian burial & then I'd happily put Brady in the empty space!!
He evidently wants a transfer to a Scottish Hospital where they wont force feed him as is done here in England. Tell him if he says where the child is buried they will grant his wish and transfer him. I doubt whether he really knows any way by now
I think enough is enough now, Winnie Johnson died without knowing where Keith is and that should be his last 'victory', he tormented her to her death,, I don't think he would even be able to identify the spot of Keith's grave, just let him die now, buried at sea, I think, he doesn't need anywhere to mark his time on earth or for oddballs to venerate.
The point is that Brady want to die. TOUGH, his victims had no choice in the matter and he will live as long as when it is his time to die of natural causes.
Because he is being detained in a psychiatric hospital he is effectively a hospital in-patient. Therefore the hospital staff have a legal obligation to ensure he does not starve to death. If he was in jail he'd have died ages ago.
Until he tells of the resting place of his victims, keep him alive to suffer.
If he has a conscious then it would be more hell to live than to simply drift away. It puts a message out there to anyone thinking of doing the same that you will have to live with it the rest of your life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-22933317
He's been force fed for years to keep him alive against his will. Can anyone play devil's advocate on this one, cause I'm struggling to understand how this is in the public interest.
Hi there
The prison authorities have "a duty of care" to all prisoners. And, really, we should be above thoughts of vengeance.
Best wishes.
I'm only disappointed they didn't hang him in the first place. I say let the prick die
