They say you should never do deals with criminals or terrorists but what about with the devil himself…? and if the devil has ever walked this earth it has been in the form of Moors Murderer Ian Brady who along with his female accomplice, Myra Hindley, murdered five children in the 1960′s and buried their bodies on Saddleworth Moor. Ten years ago Brady went on a hunger strike because prison authorities refused to allow him his wish to die – in the ten years since he has been force-fed on an intravenous tube into his stomach the bill to the taxpayer has so far come to £3million. Considering too the cost of keeping the identities of James Bulgers killers a secret one can only assume that the British sure do love keeping their most sadistic killers alive and safe.

Pictured above are Brady and Hindleys five young victims, all but 12 year old Keith Bennett were found and buried by their families, to date Keith’s body has not been recovered and for his mother Winnie (below) the nightmare will continue until she dies. For her there will be no peace until her son’s remains are found and she can give him a decent burial and resting place. Brady and Hindley (who died in 2002) refused to reveal where he was slain and buried on the moor, an estimated location is known but to date his remains have not been located and this is something that the evil Brady has delighted in over the years. His crimes now include torturing this poor woman who sent her little boy on an errand to his grandmothers house in 1964 and never saw him again.

As a new search for Keith’s body gets underway, funded by volunteers, Brady has once again announced his wish to be allowed to die so that ‘his torture’ can come to an end. Poor diddums…his torture! if you want to speak about REAL torture Mr Brady speak to the mothers of your victims: Winnie Johnson who to this day can only gaze across the bitter expanse of Hollin Browne Knoll (below) knowing the bones of her little boy lay somewhere underneath that grim,windswept ground. And the sheer barbarity of the lifelong ordeal endured by the mother of ten year old victim Lesley Ann Downey who had to listen to the tape recording Brady and Hindley made of her daughters dying pleas for mercy as they tortured her to death. Ann Downey is now mercifully out of her nightmare, but she died never being able to get the sound of her little girls dying screams out of her head.

Now maybe it is time to do a deal with the devil. Ian Brady wants to die, Winnie Johnson wants to bury her son – we wont miss Brady and the money he is costing us taxpayers and we all want to see this mother give her son his final resting place. If Brady is so tired of his decades-long ordeal of paying daily for his evil crimes, if he wants the easy way out by dying then let him tell Winnie Johnson where he buried her son that day. Of course in the years since, the elements would have played a big part in scattering Keith’s remains around the original site but this could the last opportunity to recover the little boy and return him to his Mum.

There is no point in trying to appeal to the human side of Brady, no point in trying to locate the tiniest evidence of any moral fibre within his decrepit body and expecting him to have any feeling whatsoever for Winnie’s suffering – just do a deal with this evil man. If he wants his own brand of wretched oblivian then make him earn it.