London - The Moors murderer Ian Brady promised yesterday to continue his seven-month hunger strike despite a High Court ruling preventing him from starving himself to death.
In a letter to the BBC Brady said he would defy the court ruling. "I continue the death strike doubly resolved and justified," he wrote.
Brady was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 along with his accomplice, Myra Hindley, after he was convicted of murdering three children.
Ashworth high-security mental hospital has been granted powers to force-feed him through a tube passed through his nose and into his stomach.