Moors Murderer Ian Brady reminisces about Glasgow and going sailing with Myra Hindley in never before seen letters

In a series of never-before-seen handwritten letters, Glasgow-born Brady, 79, describes playing card games and going sailing with 'M' - in an apparent reference to killer Myra Hindley.

The handwritten notes were sent between December 2013 and October 2016.

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Brady goes on to blame his barely legible handwriting on staff at Ashworth Hospital - where he's been held for 32 years - accusing them of 'deliberate' medical neglect of his 'cataracts'.

In the letters Brady - who murdered multiple children with Myra Hindley - boasts about having been 'flush with money' in the 60s and enjoying trips to 'posh' bars.

What's more, the Scottish serial killer, who was under 24-hour supervision at Ashworth hospital, moans about 'gentrified' Glasgow and compares it to a 'graveyard'.

In October 2013, Brady's pen pal - who is also from Glasgow - started writing to the killer to quiz him about his childhood in the Scottish city.

Two months later, Brady replied with a Christmas card bearing a stamp from Ashworth Hospital.

In it, Brady thanked the source for the letter.

He moaned: "Gentrified Glasgow is a graveyard compared to the busy industrial working class bustle it once was."

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He added: "As for it now being "Cosmopolitan" in the 1960s there still wasn't any immigrants there."

Signing off the letter, Brady wrote: "P.S excuse my handwriting, caused by 14 years deliberate medical neglect of my cataracts here in Ashworth".

In a reply to Brady, the source quizzed the murderer about claims he cooked with gangster and fellow convict Ronnie Kray in jail.

Confirming the story, Brady wrote: "Ronnie Kray and I did the cooking at Durham A Level Security Wing, in the 1960s after three riots there."

In another letter, dated April 2 2016 the killer chillingly reminisced on a carefree life in Manchester with pals as a young man - though it is unclear exactly which chums he is referring to.

He wrote: "On Hyde Rd [sic] at Denton there is a small public Garden, a long straight road leads to a large hotel at the top.

"Four of us used to play Bridge upstairs in that Hotel, as the father of one associate was the landlord.

"We played into the midnight hours.

"One of the players was a member of the BBC Northern Orchestra."

Discussing Glasgow, on May 30 2016, Brady wrote: "On incognito business meetings to Glasgow, we used a red bench in that Necropolis.

"I used to get there early morning and breakfast on a wedge of strong cheese and Cockburns Port, while waiting, viewing the then brewery, river, and city below."

In a reply, the source explained a pal worked in a Glasgow cemetery Brady himself frequented as a young man.

Brady's response, dated July 26 2016, included the lines: "Coincidence that your [friend] once worked at the Eastern Necropolis, perhaps our paths crossed on my regular meetings up there in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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"I made plenty of money and enjoyed a much higher lifestyle than Glasgow. But I always enjoyed visiting Glasgow family and friends.

"I even illegally returned to Glasgow for a Holiday six months after being ordered out, flush with money and everything."

Brady was sent away from his hometown by a judge as a teenager in 1954 following a spree of petty crime.

He was sent to live with his mother and stepfather in Manchester, and in his letters bragged of his illegal return to his hometown.

In the same letter, Brady wrote: "I spent the fortnight taking family members up to the posh Trocadero bar and restaurant, round the side of the big Odeon Cinema on Renfield St back then, also took pals down to the old tenements Gorbals and waterfront bars on Clyde Street.

"I was an apprentice at Harland & Wolfe in Govan when I was fifteen before being ordered out of Glasgow later that year.

"The Clyde was very busy back then, each shipyard building three ships simultaneously.

"Ten years later it was like a ghost town, empty and rusting."

In an apparent reference to his killer ex Myra Hindley, now 60, Brady said: "M and I sailed down the Clyde on the last paddle steamer, the Waverly, (which is still sailing today!)"

He added: "Yes, I too visited my old school… Camden St Primary in the Gorbals and Shawlands Academy (Still thriving)"

In a final letter, dated October 30 2016, Brady revealed how he taught himself to 'play the piano' as a youngster.

He also declined the source's offer to send books, adding: "my eyes are bad now-a-days due to conditions."

The source wrote asking Brady more about his childhood, but says he is yet to send a reply.