Robin Makin said he was with Ian Brady less than two hours before his death and described it as "quite a moving sort of situation".

"He's taken it to the grave. There's still one poor kiddie up there on the Moors. My heart goes out to Alan - at least I've got somewhere that I can visit our Les, he hasn't even got that."

Offering his first ever public explanation for why he committed the Moors murders, Ian Brady said he was “a petty criminal” who killed his child victims for an “existential experience”.