FILE - In this file photo dated Oct. 1965, Ian Brady, right, is escorted as he arrives at the courthouse in Hyde, Cheshire, England, to be convicted of the Moors murders of five children together with accomplice Myra Hindley in the Greater Manchester area of England. Brady has died Monday May 15, 2017, at a high security psychiatric hospital in Merseyside, England, according to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. Myra Hindley died in prison in 2002. (AP Photo/FILE) (The Associated Press)
LONDON – Ian Brady, a killer of five children whose role in the 1960s "Moors Murders" made him one of Britain's most reviled people, has died. He was 79.
Health officials say Brady died Monday at a high-security psychiatric hospital in northwestern England.
Brady and his girlfriend Myra Hindley were convicted in 1966 of the brutal murders of 10-year-old Lesley Ann Downey and 17-year-old Edward Evans. Brady was also found guilty of killing John Kilbride, 12.
The pair confessed in 1987 to murdering two more children, Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, 12.
The victims' bodies were buried on desolate Saddleworth Moor in northwestern England.
Bennett's grave has never been found, and for years Brady ignored calls by the boy's family to reveal the location of his remains.
Hindley died in 2002.
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