'Don't analyse me': Ian Brady breaks silence after 50 years

Moors murderer, 75, attacks shrinks and tells tribunal of 'conspiracy' to keep him in psychiatric ward

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SERIAL killer Ian Brady says he is the victim of a conspiracy to keep him locked up in a psychiatric institution.

In his first public pronouncements in almost 50 years, the Moors Murderer told a medical tribunal today there is a conspiracy to "prove" he is insane. "Manufactured psychosis is the lynchpin for keeping me . . . in a mental hospital," he said.

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