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Moors Murderer Ian Brady's mental health tribunal has entered its final day, but a decision is not expected until Thursday.
On Tuesday, Brady, speaking publicly for the first time in 47 years, said he pretended to be insane to get moved from prison to Ashworth Hospital.
He is now fighting to be found sane so he can return to prison, though he accepts he will never be freed.
Hospital staff believe Brady is mentally ill and should stay there.
Brady, now 75, and the late Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five children.
The pair buried some of their victims' bodies on Saddleworth Moor in the Peak District.
Summing up the case for Brady, his barrister Nathalie Lieven QC said he has a severe personality disorder but is not mentally ill and could be treated in prison rather than hospital.
"The evidence is that Brady had a period of severe mental illness in the 1980s, which resolved itself without medication," she said.
Staff at Ashworth have argued that Brady remains a paranoid schizophrenic who should stay at the hospital.
The BBC's Judith Moritz reports that Brady, dressed in black, is present to hear his lawyer.
He has already given evidence at the tribunal, which is sitting at Ashworth high-security psychiatric hospital in Maghull, Merseyside, speaking for more than four hours.
'Psychopathic country'
He said he used "method acting" to trick doctors into classing him as insane so he could be transferred to the hospital, where he has been held since 1985.
Brady said he wanted to leave Ashworth because he hated it and "the regime has changed to a penal warehouse".
Brady also refused to answer a question from his own lawyer about whether he intended to take his own life if he was declared fit to return to prison.
The serial killer called Britain a "psychopathic country", referring to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and described himself as a "comparable petty criminal".
When asked about his own crimes and what "value" he got out of killing, Brady responded: "Existential experience."
Brady's evidence has been met with anger by the relatives of some of his victims.
Alan West, whose stepdaughter Lesley Ann Downey was killed aged just 10 by Brady and his partner in 1964, told ITV's Daybreak that Brady's description of the killings as "recreational" was sickening.
"He should stay where he is because he'll get all the punishment he deserves rather than all the freedom of a prison," he said.
'Affront to moral justice'
The brother of one of Brady's victims has called the mental health tribunal "a complete waste of taxpayers' money".
"To give him anything is an affront to moral justice," said Terry Kilbride, brother of John, who was snatched in November 1963 aged 12.
"He gave his victims nothing."
Mr Kilbride said the money should have gone towards finding the body of another victim, Keith Bennett.
David Kirwan, former solicitor of Keith Bennett's mother, who died last year, estimated the tribunal would cost £250,000 in total.
In 1966 Ian Brady was found guilty of three of murders and jailed for life. He and Hindley later confessed to another other two. Hindley died in prison in 2002, aged 60.
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