Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Daniel Sandford looks back at the revulsion caused by Brady's crimes 
 
 Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who tortured and killed five children with Myra Hindley in crimes that shocked the nation, has died. 
 
 The 79-year-old died at Ashworth Hospital, a secure psychiatric unit in Merseyside where he had been detained since 1985. 
 
 Brady, who was jailed in 1966, buried four of his victims in graves on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester. 
 
 One victim's brother said Brady's death would not end their "nightmare". 
 
 A Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust spokesman said Brady had died at 18:03 BST on Monday. 
 
 Brady, who was born in Glasgow but later moved to Manchester, was jailed at Chester Assizes 51 years ago for the murders of John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. 
 
 In 1985 he also admitted to the murders of Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett, who was 12. 
 
 Body never found 
 
 The children had been abducted by Brady and his lover Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, between 1963 and 1965. 
 
 Brady never revealed where Keith's remains were buried. The boy's mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, had repeatedly pleaded for Brady to do so. 
 
 Image copyright PA Image caption Brady never revealed where Keith Bennett's remains were buried 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, pictured here in 2009, never gave up on the search 
 
 Brady and Hindley were caught when her brother-in-law David Smith, who was a petty criminal, phoned the police after seeing Brady abuse and strangle Edward Evans. 
 
 The officers caught Brady and Hindley at home, retrieving Edward's body from the bedroom, along with Brady's library of volumes on perversion and sadism. 
 
 'Aware of imminent death' 
 
 Martin Bottomley, the head of Greater Manchester Police's cold case unit, said the force would never give up the search for Keith and Brady's death did "not change that". 
 
 He said: "Our aim, as it always has been, is to find where Keith is buried and give closure to his surviving family members so they can give Keith the proper burial they so desperately want. 
 
 "Whilst we are not actively searching Saddleworth Moor, we will act on credible and actionable information that will help lead us to him." 
 
 Image caption Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade were among the victims 
 
 Brady's lawyer Robin Makin told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he was with his client in hospital less than two hours before his death. 
 
 "I got a call that he wanted to see me - he was obviously well aware that his death was imminent," he said. 
 
 He described the encounter as "quite a moving sort of situation", where the pair discussed Brady's legal affairs and funeral arrangements. 
 
 He said the whereabouts of the remains of Keith Bennett did not come up in conversation. 
 
 "I would be very surprised if he really had information that was useful. 
 
 "He did go to the Moors a long time ago and I suspect that if there had been information for him that he could have provided, he would have provided it then." 
 
 Describing coverage of the search for Keith's body as a "frenzy", he said: "I would very much hope that the remains can be found, but unfortunately I haven't got any information that's going to assist." 
 
 Keith's brother Alan runs a website, Searching for Keith, in an ongoing attempt to locate his body. 
 
 John Kilbride's brother, Terry, told the Sun newspaper: "It's been years and years of anguish and pain for us and the families of the victims. 
 
 "He's dead but we will have to still live with the nightmare that he left behind." 
 
 Image copyright Duncan Staff Image caption Brady and Hindley murdered five children in the 1960s 
 
 Speaking about the case of victim Lesley Ann Downey, former police officer Norman Brennan told of the "grief and torment" he had seen on the faces of her mother and father. 
 
 Police found photographs of the naked 10-year-old, along with tape recordings of her final moments pleading for her life as she was brutally abused. 
 
 Mr Brennan told BBC Two's Newsnight: "To know that your daughter was lost, alone and murdered and then actually her death was recorded, the grief can never ever be etched from your mind. 
 
 "Those two individuals, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, they didn't just destroy five young children's lives. 
 
 "The... false hopes that they gave the families for over 50 years destroyed all of the families as well, even to this day." 
 
 Image copyright Julia Quenzler Image caption Brady last appeared before a mental health tribunal in 2013 
 
 Brady had been on successive hunger strikes since 1999, arguing he should be allowed to die, but had been force-fed because he was considered mentally ill. 
 
 He campaigned for several years to be moved from Ashworth to a Scottish prison where he would not be force-fed and would be allowed to die if he wished. 
 
 The Mersey Care Trust was unable to confirm the cause of Brady's death, but said he had been given oxygen for a while. 
 
 Brady was not found dead in his room, its spokesman said, but he was unable to confirm if anyone was with him when he died, adding: "Quite possibly. I don't know." 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Police searches of the moor began in the 1960s, including this area where the body of Lesley Downey was found ||||| Ian Brady, one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers, has died aged 79. 
 
 Brady, who along with accomplice Myra Hindley, murdered five children in the 1960s, had been suffering from a lung and chest condition and died at the Ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside. 
 
 But even in death, Brady continued to cause anguish, taking the secret of where he had buried the last of his victims, Keith Bennett, to the grave with him. ||||| TWISTED Ian Brady never revealed where he buried Keith Bennett - and used the torment of the 12-year-old’s family to entertain himself. 
 
 Brady repeatedly claimed he knew where Keith’s grave was, but vowed never to tell despite the pleas of the lad’s brother Alan and his mum Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012. 
 
 PA:Press Association 4 Keith Bennett was murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley on June 16, 1964 and his body has never been found 
 
 Youngster Keith was tragically murdered aged just 12 years old by Brady and Myra Hindley. 
 
 Keith was on his way to his grandmother’s house on June 16, 1964, when he was snatched away. 
 
 Hindley lured the 12-year-old boy into her van. 
 
 She drove to a lay-by on the Moor and Brady took the boy while Hindley kept watch. 
 
 Brady reappeared 30 minutes later having sexually assaulted and strangled Keith. 
 
 Keith's family have wondered for years where their little lad was buried. 
 
 Last year Ian Brady was urged to finally name the spot where he killed and buried Keith Bennett, on the 50th anniversary of his life sentence. 
 
 Getty Images 4 Ian Brady admitted killing Keith while in prison but has never revealed what he did with the body 
 
 The serial killer has remained silent about the 12 year-old's whereabouts since he was jailed and branded "wicked beyond belief" by a judge on 6 May, 1966. 
 
 And it was hoped that in his final moments this week, as he lay on his death bed, that Brady would tell officers where Keith was buried. 
 
 He refused, however, before dying at approximately 6pm today. 
 
 Getty Images 4 Keith was enticed into a van by Brady's accomplice and lover Myra Hindley 
 
 Keith’s brother Alan and family lawyer John Ainley have often walked the moors searching for clues as to his final resting place. 
 
 Solicitor John asked Brady to show some compassion and finally pinpoint the grave. 
 
 He said: “Now that half a century is nigh, it's time for you to end the hurt, misery and speculation and do the honourable by revealing Keith's final resting place. 
 
 "He is the only one of your five victims still buried on the Moors so you should do the honourable thing by telling us the truth about his fate and last moments. 
 
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 "By your own admission you are ill and don't have much time left to live, so surely it would be a humane gesture on your part to finally reveal the truth. 
 
 "Please God, you won't take the secret to your own grave. You have spent 50 years in jails and psychiatric hospitals so what have you got too lose by being upfront with us?" 
 
 John, 68, added: “At this late stage it would be good for you to give us fresh information about Keith's grave so that we, and Alan in particular, can have a degree of peace. Surely, it’s the least you owe us?” 
 
 Brady and Hindley were convicted of killing Pauline Reade, 16, John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and 17-year-old Edward Evans. 
 
 Men Syndication 4 Keith's mum Winnie died in 2012 
 
 While locked up he later admitted killing Keith, who he snatched off the street in June 1964, shortly after his 12th birthday. 
 
 Keith’s mum, Winnie Johnson, died from cancer in 2012 having never learnt the truth. 
 
 It was just hours before Brady died that Terry Kilbride, whose brother John, 12, was also killed by Brady, told The Sun: "I would beg him to do the right thing on his deathbed and tell us where Keith is. 
 
 "Now is the time for him to stop playing tricks and come clean. 
 
 "If he takes it to the grave, I will feel so sorry for Keith's family. There will only ever be another search if there's fresh evidence. That has to come from him."
– One of Britain’s most notorious killers died Monday, taking a secret that’s haunted the family of one of his victims with him to the grave. The Telegraph reports that Ian Brady, 79, died in a hospital of causes not yet released to the public. Along with Myra Hindley, who passed away in prison in 2002, Brady sexually tortured and murdered five children ages 10 through 17 in the mid-1960s. After burying four of the bodies in the Saddleworth Moor, the pair became known as the Moors Murderers. But Brady never revealed where 12-year-old victim Keith Bennett's body was buried, and the boy’s elderly mother passed away without ever knowing his final resting place. As his health began failing, Brady continued to deny requests to reveal the whereabouts of the body. "I would beg him to do the right thing on his deathbed and tell us where Keith is," Terry Kilbride, whose brother John was also murdered by Brady, told the Sun hours before Brady's death. The head of the local cold case unit tells the BBC Brady's death will "not change" the effort to find Keith's remains. Prior to his death, Brady was in poor health, with chest and lung problems. He recently made headlines for demanding his right to die. His multiple appeals to be removed from a hospital and placed in prison in his native Scotland, where he wouldn’t be force-fed through a feeding tube, were refused. (This serial killer's true toll may never be known.)