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Moors Murderer Ian Brady has appeared in public for the first time in decades at a hearing considering his sanity as part of a bid to take his own life.
Brady, 75, has been on hunger strike for years, but is being force-fed at Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside.
He wants the mental health tribunal to allow a move to a prison in Scotland, where he hopes to end his life.
He and girlfriend Myra Hindley murdered five children in the 1960s and buried them on moors in Greater Manchester.
The tribunal is being held in Ashworth and relayed by video to Manchester Civil Justice Centre, where the public and press are able to observe proceedings.
Sectioned under the Mental Health Act, Glasgow-born Brady is not allowed to take his own life and has continued to be tube-fed during years of refusing food.
He is seeking transfer to a prison in Scotland, where there is no precedent for force-feeding a prisoner on hunger strike.
The hearing had been due to take place about a year ago but was postponed because Brady was too ill to attend.
It is scheduled to last about eight days, with the judgement then due to be reserved to a later date.
Brady and Hindley lured five children aged from 10 to 17 to their deaths, torturing them before burying their bodies on Saddleworth Moor.
They were convicted and jailed for life in 1966. Hindley died in prison in 2002, aged 60.
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