I think it's time we saved the cost of keeping him alive and maybe paid it out to families of his victims as compensation for pain and suffering. I like to think what he's got coming after he dies is going to be infinitely worse than anything we could put him through while he's alive.

While i see the gratification it might bring some people and the possible financial savings why should this scumbag who wants to die get to die when people like Tony Nicklinson are forced to live?

Closure... wanting your child to have the burial and funeral they deserve..

no but i have people that i care about and i know if something like this happened to them i wouldnt really care about where their body was buried

its not going to bring them back is it

yeah i got that but they dont really need a pile of bones to have some kind of memorial service for someone do they

what about people that die at sea and stuff and they never find the bodies?

Really? Each to their own I suppose. People who die at sea, or in air crashes etc, I suppose can never be found, and there is not much someone can do about that. I get what you are saying, but I suppose it's to do with people's ways of thinking. It's down to the individual. His mother, I presume, feels he is still out there somewhere alone, and I can relate to that. She needs to feel he is at rest, so she can be too.

How do you know though? unless someone you know has been raped and then brutally murdered, you can't..

This is terrible. :(

I've just mentioned this in another thread. The court did not grant him the right to die because it is not for the courts to change a law, it is for parliament and it is going to be discussed after the recess. I agree that he should not be forced to live if that is not his wish.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-19305055

The mothers died now, shame

Saw this on Sky, it's terribly sad. :(

His mum died :(

I wonder if she felt relieved his body was going to be found and let go

Moors murderer Ian Brady wrote a letter about where he buried victim Keith Bennett, 12, police now believe.

Officers have been investigating whether Brady gave details of Keith's remains to his mental health advocate, after claims she made in August.

Detectives initially found no evidence of a letter but have now found the envelope described by Jackie Powell, which was believed to hold the details.

Keith is the only one of 74-year-old Brady's five victims never to be found.

Ms Powell's claim that Brady had handed her an envelope which contained three letters, including one for Keith Bennett's mother Winnie Johnson, was published in news outlets ahead of her appearance in a Channel 4 documentary.

Following the publication of the claim, Ms Powell, from Carmarthenshire, was arrested on suspicion of preventing a lawful burial and was bailed.

In the subsequent broadcast of the documentary, Ms Powell - who has acted as Brady's mental health advocate since 1999 - described an envelope on which the killer had written "to be opened on the event of my death".

Brady has been on successive hunger strikes since 1999 in an attempt to kill himself, but is sectioned under the Mental Health Act so he is prevented from taking his own life.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said that after a search of documents taken from Ms Powell's house, an empty envelope with the wording described had been found, but officers did not know what had been inside.

He said inquiries were continuing into whether any letters were still in existence, but said detectives did not believe any such documents would pinpoint the body's location.

Brady and Myra Hindley murdered five children between 1963 and 1965. Three were known to have been buried on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester. A fourth victim was found at Brady's home.

Mrs Johnson, who died in August, shortly after the police investigation into the claims about the letter began, believed her son was also buried on Saddleworth Moor.


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