Ian Brady reveals burial site.

BBC News are saying that this could just be a ruse from Brady, I hope not.

If it is true , that would be good , as it give the family some kind of closure . It was such a sad business , quite heartbreaking .

Let this not be a ruse as BBC suggests but he is such a sick b...... that you could never tell,I can't imagine the pain that the family must be going through,lets hope they find this child and put him to rest in the manner he deserves and give the family closure of some kind.

If the letter to his victim's mother is only to be opened after his death, and she is seriously ill and may not get to read it, then it is a pity he has been kept alive all these years.

I am not a fan of capital punishment, but I would not go to much trouble to actively preserve the life of this specimen.

With you there, Elegran.

How cruel to do it like this!

I think I read somewhere recently that Ian Brady wishes to die and tried to starve himself to death. However, for some time now he has been force fed.

Maybe he is hoping he will be allowed to die now in order for this info to become available.

I have always thought that if confessed and convicted murderers want to die, no-one should extend their lives. Official execution puts the onus and guilt onto another person, but if they execute themselves, they will not have to be kept at public expense and inconvenience for years. The only one who can legitimately or morally take a life is the owner of it.

There's no guarantee that he's given any information as to the whereabouts of Keith's body - no one knows what he's written.

It would be just like him to want everyone to think one thing while he does another and gets the last laugh.

Foul creature.

I cannot fathom why a murderer has been kept alive by being tube fed for 12 years when another man, with "locked in syndrome", cannot be given the right to die.

Watched a psychiatrist this morning talking about Brady. As he says he is in permanent need of publicity to feed his needs.

What I didn't understand was the fact he stated this had been known for a long time, what had?.The fact this letter was in existence?. He went on to mention a new T.V. programme which will be shown soon. Was he implying the police thought they had better act before they were accused of not acting?

I don't know but I do know this man is pure evil and does not deserve one minute of kindness. I would not go against his wishes, let him go.

Not release him of course, stop force feeding him.

I think it has become known to the police because they were informed by Channel 4 which was making a documentary.

Cutting Edge was the documentary, absent. Just seen on the news just now that the solicitor/mental health advocate isn't employed by Ashworth Hospital. She and Brady speak alone together with no-one else being party to any conversation. She's also the executor for his will.

I also heard on the news that she'd told the Police about the meeting with Brady in question at the time, and no action was taken then. They still haven't found any letter, and there's only speculation that it contains information about the burial site. These documentaries always stir things up, I just feel sad for Keith's mother being given possibly false hope yet again.

Will? Has he got anything to leave?? I hope if they find the letter they open it immediately.

His Will probably consists of instructions for his funeral!

Short and sweet, I hope.

I know I've made it clear that I'm against the death penaltly but not sure that, in this case, I'm against torture. Surely the most evil man on the planet. Foul and disgusting.

He's being force fed because he's an in-patient at a hospital and deemed to be mentally incapable of making the decision to refuse food in order to die.

That's why he wants to return to prison. If 'fit' for prison he will be deemed 'fit' to go on hunger strike and end his own life.

I knew police officers who'd heard the tapes Brady & Hindley made of their torture of Lesley Ann. They told me a couple of the 'mildest' things. Sick beyond belief. These were mature officers with years and years of service and they were traumatised by what they'd heard on the tapes.

There is absolutely no reason why Brady should be allowed to choose the manner of his own death.

Notsogrand.

My hubby was a policeman and I too know the contents of the tapes were known of between forces. Grown men cried.

I can't believe why they're making another documentary about him and why we have to know about this supposed letter. Brady just seems to want publicity and his nasty mind thinks this is the best way to go about it. This letter business could have been kept quiet and not given to the media but no. Mrs Johnson [formerly Bennett - not sure if I've got the names right] is apparently in a hospice and they're trying to keep it from her. There are TVs in hospices and word could easily get round. How upsetting is that!