Moors Murderer Ian Brady's Inquest

The inquest in to the death of Moors Murderer Ian Brady took place today (Thursday 21st September 2017).

Coroner Christopher Sumner ruled that the 79-year-old died from natural causes.

Mr Sumner had previously refused to release his body of the killer until he was given assurances his ashes would not be spread on Saddleworth Moor, where the bodies of three of Brady's and Myra Hindley's five child victims were found.

But no reference was made to the murderer's remains today.

The coroner's court heard the serial killer had asked for locked briefcases to be removed from his room at Ashworth High Secure Hospital hours before his death at 6.02pm.

Consultant forensic psychiatrist Dr Noir Thomas said that at 12.30pm on May 15 medics concluded Brady, who suffered from lung disease emphysema, was nearing death.

He said:

He asked for his solicitor to be notified and requested that his locked briefcases be removed from his room. These were sealed by security staff and locked in the director of security's office.''

Following the inquest, a spokesman for Mersey Care NHS Trust, which runs the hospital in Maghull, Merseyside, said Brady's possessions had been given to Mr Makin, the executor of his will.

Recording his verdict, Mr Sumner said: He added: He received appropriate medical care throughout his time as a patient at Ashworth Hospital to satisfy both his physical and his mental needs.

The controversy surrounding this patient in life was markedly absent in death for reasons the pathologist has given.''

I thus find there was no evidence of neglect or self-neglect contributing to the death of Mr Stewart-Brady.'