Ian Brady gloats about life with Myra Hindley and recounts life behind bars with Ronnie Kray in never-before-seen letters to pen pal

IAN Brady gloats about his flash lifestyle before jail — including a boat trip with Myra Hindley — in never-before-seen letters to a pen pal.

The evil Moors Murderer, 79, brags how he treated mates in posh bars and claims he used to cook with Ronnie Kray when they were both locked up in Durham prison.

His memories are revealed in a series of handwritten notes from Ashworth hospital, where he has been detained for 34 years.

Brady’s pen pal, who is also from Glasgow, started writing to the killer in October 2013 to quiz him about his childhood in the city.

Two months later, Brady replied with a Christmas card bearing a stamp from Ashworth Hospital.

Brady moaned: “Gentrified Glasgow is a graveyard compared to the busy industrial working class bustle it once was.

“As for it now being ‘Cosmopolitan’ in the 1960s there still wasn’t any immigrants there.”

Signing off the letter, Brady wrote: “PS excuse my handwriting, caused by 14 years deliberate medical neglect of my cataracts here in Ashworth”.

Brady also confirmed earlier claims he once cooked with gangster and fellow convict Ronnie Kray.

The killer, calling himself Ian Stewart-Brady, wrote: “Ronnie Kray and I did the cooking at Durham A Level Security Wing, in the 1960s after three riots there.”

In another letter, dated April 2 last year, the killer chillingly reminisced on a carefree life in Manchester as a young man.

He wrote: “On Hyde Rd at Denton there is a small public Garden, a long straight road leads to a large hotel at the top.

“Four of us used to play Bridge upstairs in that Hotel, as the father of one associate was the landlord.

“We played into the midnight hours. One of the players was a member of the BBC Northern Orchestra.”

On May 30, Brady wrote of how he used to hang around in a cemetery on trips back to his native Glasgow, despite having been banned by a judge in 1954 following a spree of petty crime.

He was sent to live with his mother and stepfather in Manchester.

Brady said: “On incognito business meetings to Glasgow, we used a red bench in that Necropolis.

“I used to get there early morning and breakfast on a wedge of strong cheese and Cockburns Port, while waiting, viewing the then brewery, river, and city below.”

In a reply, the pen pal explained said a friend had worked in the cemetery.

Brady’s response, dated July 26, says: “Coincidence that your [friend] once worked at the Eastern Necropolis, perhaps our paths crossed on my regular meetings up there in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

“I made plenty of money and enjoyed a much higher lifestyle than Glasgow. But I always enjoyed visiting Glasgow family and friends.

“I even illegally returned to Glasgow for a Holiday six months after being ordered out, flush with money and everything.”

Brady also wrote: “I spent the fortnight taking family members up to the posh Trocadero bar and restaurant, round the side of the big Odeon Cinema on Renfield St back then, also took pals down to the old tenements Gorbals and waterfront bars on Clyde Street.

“I was an apprentice at Harland & Wolfe in Govan when I was fifteen before being ordered out of Glasgow later that year.

“The Clyde was very busy back then, each shipyard building three ships simultaneously.

“Ten years later it was like a ghost town, empty and rusting.”

Brady also made an apparent reference to his lover Myra Hindley, with whom he tortured and murdered five children in Greater Manchester the 1960s.

He wrote: “M and I sailed down the Clyde on the last paddle steamer, the Waverly, (which is still sailing today!)”

He added: “Yes, I too visited my old school… Camden St Primary in the Gorbals and Shawlands Academy (Still thriving)”

In a final letter, dated October 30 last year, Brady claimed he taught himself to play the piano as a youngster.

He declined the pen pal’s offer to send books, saying: “My eyes are bad now-a-days due to conditions.”

The pen pal wrote asking more about Brady’s childhood, but says he is yet to receive a reply.

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