Brady, who along with accomplice Myra Hindley, murdered five children in the 1960s, had been suffering from a lung and chest condition and died at the Ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside. A Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said: “We can confirm a 79-year-old patient in long-term care at Ashworth High Secure Hospital has died after becoming physically unwell.”

Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s. Brady, who alongside Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s, had never revealed the location of the body of 12-year-old Keith Bennett. "Whilst we are not actively searching Saddleworth Moors, Greater Manchester Police will never close this case. For years stepfather Alan West was haunted by Lesley’s chilling death, tirelessly campaigned against Brady’s appeals and to ensure Hindley remained behind bars. Brady in police custody for the murders in 1965. Credit: PA

Terry Kilbride, whose brother John was another of the victims, had appealed to Brady to reveal the location of Keith's body before he died. Former Formby Times journalist went Ian Fowler went on to become the first person to link the deaths in the Moors Murders case

Ian wrote a feature on the disappearances of Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Anne Downey, 10, and Keith Bennett, 12, which was published on February 19, 1965 – eight months before Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claimed their last victim, 17-year-old Edward Evans, and precipitated their arrest. He has been held at the Ashworth secure psychiatric hospital for 32 years after being transferred there in 1985 to be treated for psychopathy.
Moors murderer Ian Brady, one of a pair of killers whose victims from 1963–65 were five children aged between 10 and 17, dies at the age of 79.