Moors Murderer Ian Brady is to remain a patient at a maximum security hospital in the UK after losing his £250,000 legal bid to be transferred to a jail.

Moors Murderer Ian Brady is to speak publicly for the first time since he was jailed for life in 1966, as he bids to leave a mental hospital.

A devout Muslim convicted of child cruelty for encouraging two boys to beat themselves in a religious ceremony walked free from court today.