Evil Ian Brady’s lawyer threatens to sue Glasgow City Council for refusing the monster’s dying wish to be cremated in Scotland
In a furious phone call, Robin Makin blasted Glasgow Council for refusing to hold the Moors Murderer’s funeral in the city - but the council refused to back down
IAN Brady’s lawyer threatened a court fight over the monster’s dying wish to have his ashes scattered in his home town.
In a furious phone call, Robin Makin blasted Glasgow Council for refusing to hold the ’s funeral in the city.
The monster’s brief was left fuming at the local authority’s — and threatened to sue city bosses if the request in Brady’s will was rejected.
But the council refused to back down in an angry exchange, insisting the mass killer’s instructions must never be followed.
A source revealed Mr Makin rang in a rage after The Sun told how the Glasgow-born beast’s desire to have was being blocked.
The insider said: “His lawyer phoned us to say, ‘You’ve said you won’t cremate my client. Is that correct?’ We said, ‘That’s correct, we won’t do it.’
“His lawyer got very angry and angsty about that.
“He started trying to talk about it and was told, ‘There’s no point, we’re not doing it and if you think you’ve got legal recourse, if you think you can sue us, then knock yourself out.’ We haven’t heard from him since.
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“Our thinking was pretty much ‘We don’t care, f*** you,’ which we felt was perfectly reasonable under the circumstances.”
The insider revealed the knockback also provoked anger from cremation officials but said leaders had city residents’ support.
The source said: “When it became clear he wanted to be cremated in Glasgow, we came out and were very clear that if we were to get such a request, we would say no.
“The issue for the council is not that he was a very, very bad man, the issue is that he was a very, very bad man who expressly wanted to be cremated in Glasgow.
“The people of Glasgow don’t want it and we’re not going to do it. We’re not going to give effect to what this guy wanted.
“I think if the lawyer thought he could legally compel us to do it then he would have done it by now.
“He was considering whether he had any legal options.
“I believe the national cremation authority got a bit angsty as well, saying, ‘You can’t just decide not to cremate people.’
“But my understanding is that no-one wants Brady.
“I guess he will eventually find somebody who takes the view that the disposal of your mortal remains is a human right that can’t be denied to anybody, no matter how heinous they are — the same way that legal representation is a human right that can’t be denied.”
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They added: “The charitable way you could look at this is to say he’s got a duty to try to give effect to his client’s desires.
“But the guy’s dead, he’s not going to sue him.”
The snub covers the local authority’s Daldowie and Linn crematoria.
There are two private facilities in the city — at Craigton and Lambhill — but it’s understood that neither is willing to dispose of Brady, who died in May aged 79.
But his ashes could still be brought to Glasgow and scattered.
Another source said: “There’s no way you could police that. You could do it on Sauchiehall Street and nobody would know.”
We told how Brady left instructions to be cremated and his ashes spread on the Clyde near his childhood home in the Gorbals.
He demanded a non-religious funeral service and even picked out the Symphonie Fantastique — a piece of music charting a killer’s descent into hell — to be played.
He left two locked Samsonite cases containing his private papers for Mr Makin.
A coroner has released his body to the Liverpool-based lawyer but the bitter stand-off in Glasgow means the corpse remains at a “monster morgue” in north-west England along with terrorist Salman Abedi, who killed 22 in the Manchester Arena gig attack in May.
An inquest in Bootle, Merseyside, this week ruled Brady died of natural causes from lung disease.
He and lover Myra Hindley, who died at 60 in 2002, killed five kids between 1963 and 1965.
Lesley Ann Downey, ten, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade, 16, were buried on Saddleworth Moor, Gtr Manchester.
Edward Evans, 17, was found in Brady’s home. The body of Keith Bennett, 12, has never been recovered.
Last night Glasgow City Council confirmed the ashes plea but said: “We reiterated we are not going to do it.”
Mr Makin’s spokeswoman said: “He is away for a religious holiday. There is no comment.”
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