The Ian Brady Mental Health Tribunal.

For those of you who don't know sometimes known as "The Moors Murderer" Ian Brady is one of the UK's most infamous serial killers having killed five children along with his accomplice Myra Hindley in the Greater Manchester area between 1963 and 1965. Having been declared criminally insane in 1985 he is currently locked up in Ashworth psychiatric hospital in Liverpool under the care of South West London Mental Health (SWLMHS) Services who share a board member (Gill Golding) with the Notting Hill Housing Trust (NHHT) who own 50 Beechwood Avenue. As a result Brady is frequently brought out in public as a way to libel me and other wise damage my reputation.

The latest effort in this saga was the resumption of Brady's mental health tribunal which began on Monday (17/6/13). This tribunal actually began in July 2012 just before the London Olympics but was aborted after Brady apparently suffered a 'seizure.' The resumption of the tribunal to coincide with the start of the UK hosted G8 Summit was clearly another attempt to get delegates talking about my mental health with a specific view towards finding out if any of them would support having me detained under the 1983 Mental Health Act in relation to my alleged smashing of the windows at 50 Beechwood Avenue. I'm not going to go into detail about my mental health mainly because the last psychiatric report I read on myself ran to over 50 pages. However I have been a voluntary patient in a residential psychiatric facility, undergone Court mandated forensic psychiatric assessment and have my mental health assessed on a bi-monthly basis. Therefore if I was in anyway as mentally ill as Ian Brady you would expect at least one of the dozens of mental health professionals to have picked up on it over the last nine years or so.

As for Brady himself the exact nature of his mental illness is something of a mystery. In 1985 he was diagnosed as a psychopath however this diagnosis does not exist anymore. Therefore I'm assuming he's had his diagnosis updated to extreme Anti-Social Personality Disorder (ASPD) with high psychopathic tendencies. This presents a serious problem for SWLMHS because ASPD is considered to be a non-treatable condition. The 1983 Mental Health Act only allows for the detention for treatable conditions. Therefore Brady's detention by SWLMHS seems unlawful and the mental health tribunal seems to have little option other then to free Brady from SWLMHS' detention and give him leave to claim compensation.

In practical terms this makes very little difference to Ian Brady because if he is released from hospital he will simply be transferred to a prison to serve his whole life term for the five murders. The problem is that Brady is clearly not enjoying his punishment and has been trying to starve himself to death for the past 14 years. His detention under the Mental Health Act places a duty of care on SWLMHS to preserve his life and prevent his suicide even going so far as to force feed him. If he were to be freed from detention under the Mental Health Act (no-one's talking about declaring him sane) and transferred to prison this would become more complicated. Although they often forget about it the prison service has a similar duty of care to ensure the safety and well being of its prisoners but this generally does not extend as far a force feeding someone who is on hunger strike.

This is currently a very contentious issue particularly within the Israel/Palestine conflict and within Guantanamo Bay. Therefore I think Brady's tribunal was timed specifically to put pressure on US President Obama during the G8 Summit.

20:30 on 18/6/13.