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No AIBU - Ian Brady is dead.

273 replies

StillDrivingMeBonkers · 15/05/2017 21:58

Good.

That is all.

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SuperSheepdog · 15/05/2017 22:39

Hopefully he wasn't given any pain relief.

Lionking1981 · 15/05/2017 22:39

Dangerousbeanz, that is absolutely heartbreaking. It is her, Keith and all the other victims I am thinking about now. Not him.

Ann West was tortured for years with the threat of hindley being released. That pompous lord Longford actually told her she must forgive Hindley otherwise she wouldn't get to see Lesley again.

Hopefully they can all rest a little more peacefully now.

RJnomore1 · 15/05/2017 22:39

I know what he did and I wouldn't wish torture on anyone. I wouldn't sink to his level.

I'm not sorry he is dead but I don't celebrate it either.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 15/05/2017 22:42

Hope it was long and painful, although it won't have been anywhere near as long and painful as the sorrow of the families of his victims.

LagunaBubbles · 15/05/2017 22:45

Elendon what a disgusting post.

Butterymuffin · 15/05/2017 22:48

Good. I'm glad he didn't get to control when he died as he wanted to.

laylabelle · 15/05/2017 22:48

Good in a way but not in another. Poor Keith family though least he can't play games with them no more

And although people feel he shouldve been kept alive and that why should he have got his wish when his victims had no thought from him!

Hope he suffered and had a shred of remorse but doubt it..prob juat remorseful got caught in the first place!

MrsSthe3rd · 15/05/2017 22:49

Hope the bastard suffered!!

Thinking of all his victims and their loved ones Flowers

HappyFlappy · 15/05/2017 22:52

That pompous lord Longford actually told her she must forgive Hindley otherwise she wouldn't get to see Lesley again.

What a shameful thing to say! I wonder if he would have been so blasé if his precious child had been one of the victims of this repulsive pair.

And anyway - I firmly believe that we can only forgive the pain that has been caused to ourselves. We have no right to forgive on behalf of other people. The only people who would have had a right to forgive them were their poor little victims.

Perhaps Beady's death could be celebrated by holding a memorial service for the innocent lives he destroyed.

WannaBreakFree · 15/05/2017 22:53

*In February 2006, Brady sent the mother of victim Keith Bennett a letter. In the letter he complained of his treatment at the high security hospital saying he was being kept alive by force-feeding for "political purposes."

Brady also claimed that he could take police to within 20 yards of where Keith Bennett is buried. Staff at the hospital believe Brady was able to send the letter via a third party.

Brady has also, apparently, written his autobiography, which is held by his lawyers, pending publication after his death.*

I am so proud to live in a 'civilised society' that sees the need to keep these creatures alive as more important than the suffering of the victims and their tortured families that are left behind Angry.

Tomorrowillbeachicken · 15/05/2017 22:53

I feel for relatives of Keith Bennett.

QuietNameChange · 15/05/2017 22:54

I must admit, I do also feel sorry for the people that loved these monsters.

I mean, thinking that a child of mine might ever... It makes me nauseous and I think I have to stop thinking of that or of his victims.

But yes, I'm also glad he did not get to die on his own terms.

I struggle to believe anybody could feel sorry for him.
Maybe that makes me morally inferior according to some people, but I honestly believe that he'll burn for what he did.

SherlockPotter · 15/05/2017 22:54

Thank fuck for that. I hope he rots in hell!

reuset · 15/05/2017 22:55

Keith Bennet was discussed on the recent 'unsolved mysteries' thread. Very sad. Apparently his family still search Saddleworth Moor regularly as his mother did until her death.

My thoughts are with the families of the victims

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Tomorrowillbeachicken · 15/05/2017 22:58

Also there are probably other victims.

HappyFlappy · 15/05/2017 22:58

Brady has also, apparently, written his autobiography, which is held by his lawyers, pending publication after his death

It shouldn't be published.

The only people who should ever get to read it are criminologists who have to deal with these sort of perverted, horrible individuals.

Why should the prurient be able to satisfy a twisted curiosity, and why risk someone else getting "ideas" from it?

Who would stand to profit format anyway? The families won't want any blood money, I imagine.

blerp · 15/05/2017 22:59

I hope he felt the full dreadful weight of remorse for the evil he did, repented before the end.

I guess we shouldn't take pleasure even in the deaths of evil people, because when we do we become a little like them, grant them a little victory... so I won't.

Let that man try to stand and answer for himself before his Maker.

Dawndonnaagain · 15/05/2017 23:00

reuset · 15/05/2017 23:00

Agree Happy!

JacquesHammer · 15/05/2017 23:00

Hopefully he wasn't given any pain relief

That's grim. It's the fact that people like Brady are given palliative care, given treatment that makes us better that he is.

He was a deplorably evil human being. He will not be missed. I hope we can somehow not give him the notoriety he so craved. I am just sad that he died without revealing where to find Keith Bennet's body.

Goldmandra · 15/05/2017 23:04

Would it even be possible to find a body from a clue in his possessions now?

I have relatives who live right by that moor and they say that the soil moves so the body wouldn't be where it was buried now anyway.

My heart goes out to all the families of those poor children.

Shockers · 15/05/2017 23:04

I do hope they find something within his personal effects which will lead the police to little Keith Bennett.

This will stir up so many difficult feelings for the families and friends of his victims. Being well cared for up until his death is almost like he 'got away with it'.

I hope eternity exists and that he has all of it to consider what he did.

EasilyDistracted77 · 15/05/2017 23:12

Well I DO have an AIBU relating to this: AIBU to think that the BBC (or any form of media in fact) should NOT be publishing an obituary for this man?

MrsApplepants · 15/05/2017 23:14

The world is a better place now he is gone. And hell has a new resident

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