Ian Brady's tribunal postponed - Crime - UK - The Independent Moors Murderer Ian Brady's mental health tribunal will be delayed because he is too ill to attend, a judge ruled tod Judge Robert Atherton said he accepted that Brady, who is understood to have suffered a seizure earlier this week, was too ill to take part in the public hearing, which was due to begin on Monday. No new date for the hearing has been set, he added. Brady, 74, who, with Myra Hindley, murdered five children in the 1960s, has been returned to Ashworth psychiatric hospital after undergoing medical tests at Fazakerley General Hospital in Aintree, Liverpool. The judge said that while his condition was not life- threatening, it was serious enough to "preclude his attendance and proper participation in the hearing." "The tribunal considered that it would not be proper to continue in his absence as it had been a significant factor in the decision to grant a hearing in public that he would participate in such a hearing," the judge said. He added that a "short postponement" was not considered practical and a new date would be set later. The judge went on: "The tribunal are acutely aware of the public interest in this case being resolved as soon as possible and of the extensive arrangements which have been made to facilitate its hearing. But in the circumstances the tribunal had to conclude that the forthcoming hearing must be adjourned to a date to be fixed when the commitments of those involved have been ascertained because of Mr Brady's present physical condition.