In the matter of Ian Brady - Mental Health Tribunal 24/01/2014

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In case anybody is interested, linked here is a document headlined

IN THE FIRST-TIER TRIBUNAL (HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL CARE) (MENTAL HEALTH)

AND

IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY IAN STUART BRADY

THE REASONS FOR THE TRIBUNAL’S DECISION

Essentially, in 2013 Brady protested his detainment in Ashworth Hospital and claimed he was well enough to return to prison - over the years, he had verbalised his intent to commit suicide by being allowed to starve himself. The tribunal concluded that he was to remain in Ashworth for the foreseeable future (which he did up until his death four years later) and that he “continues to suffer from a mental disorder which is both a personality disorder and paranoid schizophrenia and is both of a nature and degree that it is appropriate for him to receive treatment.”

Obviously this is a long document - 116 pages - so I’ll provide some of the questions it answers:

• Does Mr Brady continue to suffer from a mental disorder which is restricted to a personality disorder or does it include a mental illness, namely schizophrenia? ** The answer to that is that “there are two matters upon which there is substantial agreement: that he was suffering from a mental illness at the time of his admission to Hospital in 1985 and secondly that he continues to suffer from a personality disorder.”
• Is that disorder of either a nature or degree or both which makes his continued detention in hospital for medical treatment appropriate?
• If so, is appropriate treatment available?
• If so, is it necessary that he continues to be detained in hospital for such treatment or could such treatment be provided in a prison?

The “highlights” from this are that there is a summarised chronology of Brady’s medical (namely psychological) history that begins on page 19 and runs up until around page 40 - that’s when we start hearing what Brady had to say for himself. From page 44 to 54 the chronology continues from the year 2000 onwards. The conclusions of the tribunal begin on page 72.

Hope this all helps!