MORE REPULSIVE THAN THE RIPPER

Killer felt entitled to commit crimes against kids

- BY JENNIFER HYLAND

ONE of Britain's top forensic psychiatrists has told how meeting Moors Murderer lan Brady triggered revulsion he hadn't experienced with any other criminal.

Professor Jeremy Coid assessed Glaswegian Brady at Ashworth High Security Psychiatric Hospital in Merseyside in 2003.

Brady, then 65, had been jailed for 37 years for the gruesome Moors Murders in the 60s along with girlfriend Myra Hindley.

The sadistic pair had engaged in the torture and murder of five children, before burying their bodies in Saddleworth Moor.

Professor Coid said just being in the presence of "beyond narcissistic Brady brought a reaction he had never experienced with any other killer including Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

Professor Coid said: "I went to see Ian Brady at the request of a solicitor to prepare a report on him and it was a remarkable experience.

"It was a battle of control which I lost in the sense he had to dictate how the interview was going and what he'd talk about.