Brady bid cost £500,000

NOTORIOUS child killer Ian Brady’s failed bid to move to jail from his mental hospital cost the taxpayer £500,000.

Brady tried to prove he was stable enough to be transferred to a mainstream prison so he can starve himself to death.

The trial cost the NHS £200,000, partly with the cost of expert witnesses on both siades.

Brady has been on hunger strike at the Ashworth Secure Hospital in Merseyside for the past 14 years and is force fed through a tube.