MOORS murderer Ian Brady has hit out again at the high-security hospital where he is locked up - this time for banning him from smoking.
Brady, now 70, was forced to quit his habit of smoking 60 untipped cigarettes a day when Ashworth high security hospital in Merseyside introduced a smoking ban earlier this year along with the rest of the NHS.
The child killer has reportedly told guards: "It's the only pleasure left in my life and you have taken it away from me."
He is also said to have complained about the ban in a letter to a friend, writing: "Smoking has been banned here in the pretentious hope that it will make the public mistake this repressive cesspit of feral retardation for a hospital. It means I'm being habitually force-fed to enjoy the remaining luxury of breathing!"
Brady has been force fed since he went on hunger strike in 2001.
Earlier this year he complained he was only getting £25-a-week pocket money while other 'tramps and malingerers' got £100.
One member of staff has reportedly said: "Since his supply of ciggies was cut off, Brady has not stopped moaning.
Patients
"He seems to think that the ban should not apply to him because of his 'special' circumstances and like everyone else who has had to suddenly stop smoking he is finding it difficult. But there cannot be one law for Brady and another for the rest of the patients."
Paul Weare, director of security at Mersey Care NHS Trust, said: "I won't discuss any aspects of care around any individual patient. What I can tell you is that Mersey Care Trust did initiate a no-smoking policy across all its sites as has most of the NHS across the country.
"It prohibits patients from smoking within the grounds of NHS hospitals."
It means Brady can no longer indulge his habit of smoking in his room at the hospital.
And, as it is a high security hospital, he is not allowed to go outside to smoke either.
The trust's executive director, Karen Wilson, said: "We work hard to ensure patients are supported through smoking cessation programmes.
"People with mental health problems are among the heaviest smokers and suffer enormously from smoking-related diseases. As a health organisation, we have a duty of care to help them improve their physical health."
Brady was jailed for life alongside Myra Hindley in 1966 for murdering Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Keith Bennett, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. The victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor. Hindley died in 2002.
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Of course there shouldn't be one rule for Brady and one for everybody else. The rule should not be in place at all. It is an inhumane measure to take against people who are confined throughout their lives. Using Brady, a figure who has no public sympathy, to make a news story out of it is a tad manipulative.
This will ensure a large uptake of nicotine substitutes. I would be interested to know how much the hospital's spend on these products is over a year.
Smoking is legal and the purpose of regimes like this is to maximise control over patients, and perhaps also push nicotine substitutes on people who would otherwise smoke tobacco.
Exercises like this make me lose faith in humanity.
Looks like some high priced Human Rights action (with the public paying of course) is in the balance. As for the other comments of helping the patients for health reasons. Where was the duty of care prior to the ban? All good argument for a HR Case.
Unfortunately there are special circumstances here, I am not considering Brady. He should be joined by some of the killers who are let out to kill again. Such is the demise of the UK Justice system.
He is very lucky he has a chance to still breathe, he should be reminded that he deprived five children of their chance to breathe.
I hope brady lives to be 150 years old or more.
He is a prisoner. The authorities should not allow him to break the law again whilst he is in prison. Put him a cell and do not let him out again. Why do we give publicity to this child killer?
He'll no doubt get a human rights lawyer on the case at our expense - claiming as prisoners are allowed to smoke so should he.
Watch this one run and run
It is amazing to me that you would even waste the space to comment on the lack of special attention that this MONSTER feels that he deserves. What in fact he deserves, in my opinion, is to suffer as he made those poor children suffer. I remember the names of those children, I was of the age that I could have become one of those children, What ever hardships he can be made to experience could never be enough to make up for a minute of the lives that he and Hindley took.
how can he afford ^60 a day when decent folk can not afford to light fires!. Here`s a solution, stack his annual fags in a heap, stick him on top add petrol and lighted match...Brady stops smoking....after a while..
Does anyone care?
Karen Wilson. Have you ever given it a moments thought, that for people with mental health problems, smoking is is one of the few pleasures they have in life?
Do you you really imagine they are concerned about 'smoking related diseases'? It may come as a surprise to you but people in this situation don't give a **** about your 'duty of care', whatever that prime example of 'Nu-Speak' is supposed to mean.
Why would they be interested in you improving their physical health? What do you suggest? Cross country runs, aerobics, gym membership, vegetarian diet? Don't they have enough to contend with already without this constant bullying from the 'health police'? Your only 'duty of care', should be ensuring that these people are as happy as possible given their unfortunate circumstances. Depriving them of any of the small pleasures in life does not come under 'duty of care' in my book, especially as many of them will be unable to understand the reasoning behind it.
People without these problems are able to make reasoned decisions on giving up or not, a route not always available to the mentally ill.
To return to my opening sentence, no I don't suppose you have!
Like all NHS trusts and it's members it's all about targets and Nu-Lab inspired spin, designed to distract us from the real failings in our once respected health service.
The only pleasure left? He should be kept in a cupboard sized empty room 24/7, in the dark, and only let out once a day for force feeding.
Well, what a shame, sure everyone feels really sorry for him. This scum doesn't deserve any rights at all.
'He is also said to have complained about the ban in a letter to a friend'
He has a friend? Unbelievable!
"It's the only pleasure left in my life and you have taken it away from me."
what a shame!!
Those poor parents that never saw their children grow up, that you took away!
So what? Let this child killer smoke. It wil get him out of our lifes a lot quicker.
How the hell do you get 60 fags a day for £25 a week. Or did you have to be a criminal to get them at a reduced rate!!
tough! i would leave a packet just out of reach out side this animals cell.
Brady states that it is the only pleasure in his life and it has been taken away from him. What pleasure was taken away from the lives of the children that he murderded, I can't see that their parents have had any pleasure since.
I don't give a damn about what this moron thinks.
He should have hung years ago! So what! He can't smoke.. What a pity!
Aw what a shame that Mr Brady thinks he is being treated so badly. Only 25 quid a week and now they won't let him smoke.
Not very thankful that the authorities are trying to keep him alive and healthy.
If only he was as compasionate to his victims.
Never mind I am a compasionate person, so the next time I bump into the PM in the local shopping centre. I will tell him how unfair this system is to Mr brady.
Until then stay healthy Mr Brady, and enjoy your dinner.
do us all a favour and give him a thousand fags a minute, i'll pay for them myself. let him die like he let them poor kids die.
I would like him to smoke! - at the crematorium where he should have ended up when he was found guilty of those evil murders.
hopefully we do not conceive such depraved people over here..lucky us.. ouuf!
I like the idea of putting a packet of fags within sight of his cell but not let him have it
It's a rare occasion when I agree with keeping him alive at tax payers expense because it's obviously 'killing' him more than death would
Rot in hell Brady