Evil Moors Murderer Ian Brady’s long-running hunger strike has been exposed as a sham.
The child killer, who has spent the last 50 years locked up and largely alone, secretly binges on up to three meals a day, it has been claimed.
The 78-year-old removes his nasal feeding tube to tuck into cheese on toast, sandwiches and plates of chips in his room at a top-security hospital, one prison source has said.
Serial killer Brady has claimed to be on hunger strike for 17 years and wants to be moved to a normal jail where he says he will kill himself.
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A medical tribunal three years ago heard he sometimes ate one daily meal – toast for breakfast.
However the prison source claims the supposed hunger strike is actually a complete sham.
Speaking to the Sunday Mirror, the source said: “Brady pulls the tube out and lets it hang down while he eats. He often eats three meals a day. He just wants people to think he is on hunger strike.”
At the 2013 tribunal Brady unsuccessfully argued he was not a paranoid schizophrenic. He said he had a “right to die” and wanted to be moved to a normal jail so he could starve himself to death.
During the hearing it emerged that nurses at Ashworth secure hospital in Liverpool – where inmates are offered cookery classes – brought hot water to his room so he could make flasks of packet soup. The tribunal heard they also knocked when they called on him to give him time to put down any slice of toast he might be eating.
Mark Sheppard, who had been caring for the killer for the previous 28 months, said Brady regularly made toast when he got up at 6.30am at Ashworth.
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He spent the week-long hearing protesting against being detained at Ashworth.
Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s and buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor.
The pair were jailed for life at Chester Assizes on May 6, 1966, for the murders of John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.
It was 21 years later when the pair finally admitted they had also killed Pauline Reade, 16 and Keith Bennett, 12.
Pauline’s body was found but Keith’s remains somewhere on the moors.
A spokesman for the NHS trust said: “We cannot discuss individual patients.”
