Overview
- Professor Jeremy Coid says his 2003 interview with Ian Brady at Ashworth became a battle of control that Brady dictated.
- He describes experiencing waves of hatred he had not felt with any other offender, framing the reaction as countertransference.
- Coid characterizes Brady as a psychopath and sadist with a grandiose, almost godlike entitlement and suggests he likely derived sexual gratification from his crimes.
- He contrasts this with his Broadmoor interview of Peter Sutcliffe, whom he found affable and elicited no similar negative feelings despite Sutcliffe’s claims of divine influence.
- The reflections were shared on Ladbible’s Minutes With, with context that Brady and Myra Hindley murdered five children in the 1960s and that Brady died in 2017 at age 79.