Brady force-fed: Moors murderer's 30-day hunger strike broken

By Adrian Addison

A 30-DAY hunger strike by Moors murderer Ian Brady was smashed last night as nurses began force-feeding him.

Child-killer Brady, 61, refused to eat after being kicked out of a cushy hospital cell when a knife was found nearby.

He claimed he was beaten up by nurses at Merseyside's Ashworth Hospital when they took him to a higher-security cell.And he vowed to starve himself to death in protest.

But last night hospital bosses decided it was in his "best interests" to force-feed him - and ran a tube up his nose and down into his stomach. Brady's solicitor Robin Makin said last night: "He is being fed against his will and is furious. I do not believe they have the legal justification to make him eat and I will be fighting for Mr Brady's rights."

Brady has had only sugarless black tea and coffee in the past month.

He was jailed in 1966 for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, ten, Edward Evans, 17, and John Kilbride, 12. He later admitted killing Keith Bennett, 12, and Pauline Reade, 16. His lover Myra Hindley is also serving life.

Winnie Johnson, 66 - mum of Keith Bennett - said last night: "Why are they wasting their time? They should let him die and do us a favour.

"Maybe now he will tell me where Keith's body is. After that he can do the world a favour and kill himself."

October 30, 1999 | Sun, The (London, England). Author/Byline: Adrian Addison