Brady Returns To Ashworth After Seizure

Moors murderer Ian Brady has been returned to high security psychiatric hospital after treatment for a seizure.

The 74 year old had a police escort as he was driven away from University Hospital Aintree where he has spent two nights in a single room guarded by police.

A spokesperson for Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside said: "Ian Brady who has been treated at a general hospital following becoming acutely physically unwell on Monday has now returned to Ashworth Hospital.

"He underwent a series of tests and was kept in for observation but has now recovered enough to return to Ashworth Hospital, the high secure hospital where he was been for the last 27 years.

"Ian Brady, 74, remains physically unwell and will be treated by Ashworth Hospital’s own physical health care team in conjunction with any expert input required from consultants at the general hospital."

Brady has been on hunger strike since 1999 and is tube fed because as a psychiatric patient he cannot be allowed to take his own life.

He is due to attend a mental health tribunal on Monday to fight to be transferred from the high security hospital to prison in Scotland where he could starve himself to death.

Brady's solicitor, Richard Nicholas was with him preparing for the tribunal on Monday when he collapsed. Mr Nicholas has told Sky News he does not want the tribunal to be conducted in Brady's absence if he is not well enough to attend.

Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the murders of five youngsters in the 1960s.

They lured children and teenagers to their deaths, with the victims sexually tortured before being buried on Saddleworth Moor above Manchester.

Brady was sentenced to life in prison in 1966 for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10 and Edward Evans, 17.

In 1987 Brady and Hindley finally admitted also killing Keith Bennett, 10 and Pauline Reade, 16.

Both were taken back to Saddleworth Moor in 1987 to help police find the remains of the missing victims but only Pauline's body was found.

A lawyer acting on behalf of Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, has told Sky News she would like him to remain sectioned under the mental health act as if he is able to take his own life he will never be able to reveal where Keith's body is buried.

Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60.