Moors Murderer Ian Brady reveals he’s dying and has been bed-ridden for two years

IAN Brady has revealed he is dying after his lung and chest condition became terminal.

In a rambling letter, the Moors murderer also said he had been bedridden for two years.

Brady, 78, who sexually abused, tortured and murdered five children with lover Myra Hindley, is said to be so frail that staff at his high-security psychiatric hospital have to lift him with a hoist.

He has been in Ashworth, near Liverpool, since being diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic in 1985.

A mental health tribunal is due to rule this month on whether he should be transferred back to jail. A 2013 application was rejected.

Rumours about Brady’s failing health were sparked after it emerged he sent out Christmas cards four months early.

In a letter to Channel 5 correspondent Julian Druker, he said: “I’m still bedridden and have been for over two years. The lung and chest condition is terminal.”

Brady, originally jailed in 1966, also told a pal he had written a will.

In the two-page letter to Mr Druker, written on November 25, he fondly recalled his time in prison alongside IRA cons.

And he also bizarrely lashed out at the High Court’s decision to block Brexit.

Brady ranted: “Those three public school judges who dredged up a law from the seventeenth century to obstruct the people’s vote for Brexit, additionally exemplify the corrupt establishment, and the myth of a politically independent judiciary.”

His time in Ashworth means he has been detained longer than anyone else in Britain.

Brady insists he only pretended to by psychotic because hospital life was cushier than jail.

He was convicted with Hindley of the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Keith Bennett, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, ten, and Edward Evans, 17.

Hindley died in 2002, aged 60.

John’s brother Terry, 62, said: “Brady dying would be the best Christmas present ever.”