By STEPHEN WHITE
MOORS murderer Ian Brady has complained he does not get paid as much as other patients at the hospital where he is held.
The five-times child killer, currently in Ashworth Hospital, Maghull, claims he is only getting pounds 25 a week – while others get pounds 100.
As he is being held as a “prison transfer”, Brady, 70, is entitled to pounds 1,300 of taxpayers’ cash a year – but less than the amount for full-time patients.
In a letter to his solicitor and local MP, George Howarth, he complains about his pay and includes a long stab at New Labour and the state of the UK.
He writes: “But perhaps more embarrassing to prudently financial New Labour are the ranks of tramps and malingerers who escaped into Ashworth to avoid working for a living, demanding and receiving full board and full benefits of pounds 100 per week pocket money for life (we prison transfers receive only pounds 25, being regarded as ‘patients’ only for restrictions).” Brady, who is force-fed after he went on hunger strike in 2001, goes on to complain about his alleged harsh treatment at Ashworth.
He adds: “Haven’t exercised in the open air since 1975; stopped all social visits since 1998 when Ashworth became less than a prison; confined to ward for past 23 years; force-fed since 1999. I – a 70-year-old tube-fed skeleton – am the sole high-profile prisoner Ashworth holds to exploit as a demonising agent.
“In like fashion, New Labour exploits the threat of a few fertiliser bombs to panic and herd a bovine generation.”
Brady, who was jailed for life alongside Myra Hindley in 1966 for murdering five children and burying them on Saddleworth moor, has instructed mental health lawyers, Liverpoolbased RMNJ, to get him a transfer to jail.
The case is currently before a Mental Health Review Tribunal.
His solicitor, Richard Nicholas, said: “He wishes to be free from the power of psychiatrists under the Mental Health Act, including the power to artificially prolong his life”.
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