"To whom should I apologise and what difference would it make to anyone?" "Good and evil might therefore be presented simply as a matter of what we think we can get away with without sacrificing reputation. To all intents and purposes, the majority regard themselves as law-abiding, decent, god-fearing people - right up to the moment they are caught." "I reached the stage where, whatever came to mind, get out and do it. I led the life that other people could only think about." "The concept of hell and endless torment is popular with those who believe they aren't headed there." "Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions of right and wrong imposed by others, particularly members of the often eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media." "One should try to be honest with oneself almost as a daily devotion."--------------------Ian Brady

"I have had enough, I want nothing. My objective is to die...I'm only sorry I didn't do it decades ago and I'm eager to leave this cesspit in a coffin." "I prefer to die healthy rather than rot slowly for their vested interests and expediency." "In either case I want more psychiatrists brought in as further witnesses to my competence. If anyone believes I am bluffing, they need only call it by halting the force-feeding. I wanted a life in captivity, denied. I wanted death in captivity, denied. Obviously I am simply to be stored. Events of the past six months of this death strike, culminating in the politically-orchestrated judicial review, merely confirm and reinforce my initial assessment and resolve to die. Let the public decide who is telling the truth." "Patients have been stored in Ashworth for countless decades at massive public expense, despite having committed no crime or merely trivial offences. Why are such innocuous patients being left to rot in a top-security hospital in the first place? The principle by which Ashworth operates to justify itself is crude and simple. It is the self-fulfilling prophesy. Apply a label. Put the monkey in a cage. Keep poking it with a stick. When it eventually reacts, interpret the reaction as justification of the label."

"In the aforementioned Panorama programme, former Home Office Minister A. Widdicombe stated there are twenty-three prisoners in the UK who will never be released. Why has the public heard so little of them? In this and other special hospitals run by prison warders there are also patients no-one has heard of, who have been rotting behind bars for forty and fifty years for relatively minor offences. That puts the present loud debate over Myra Hindley in proper perspective, and crystallizes the reason why I have long advocated UK prisoners and patients in special hospitals should have access to voluntary euthanasia." "First accept the determinant. Myra Hindley and I once loved each other. We were a unified force, not two conflicting entities. The relationship was not based on the delusional concept of folie a deux, but on a conscious/subconscious emotional and psychological affinity. She regarded periodic homicides as rituals of reciprocal innervation, marriage ceremonies theoretically binding us ever closer. As the records show, before we met my criminal activities had been primarily mercenary. Afterwards, a duality of motivation developed. Existential philosophy melded with the spirituality of death and became predominant. We experimented with the concept of total possibility. Instead of the requisite Lady Macbeth, I got Messalina. Apart our futures would have taken radically divergent courses." ------------------Ian Brady