Today on January 2nd 1938 Ian Brady is born
Born Ian Duncan Stewart in Scotland, at the Rottenrow Maternity Hospital to Margaret (“Peggy”) Stewart and grew up in the tough slum neighborhood of the Gorbals in Glasgow. Peggy Stewart, a tea-room waitress, found it difficult bringing up a child on her own and hoped to spare her son the social stigma of his illegitimacy. So she gave up young Ian to the nearby Sloane family who adopted him into their own family and raised him as one of their own. Ian’s father has never been identified; Peggy Stewart claimed that he was a journalist who died a few months before their son was born.
Early on, Ian showed troubling signs of dysfunctional behavior and moodiness. When he could not have his way he would throw violent tantrums, which sometimes ended with him banging his head against the wall. Peggy occasionally came to visit her son and indulged him with gifts. Ian soon figured out for himself who Peggy Stewart really was, and likewise deduced that the Sloanes were not his real family.
Others in the neighborhood also caught on to the boy’s socially unacceptable origins, and this, coupled with his sullen, unsociable personality, and his lack of skill at football, made him unpopular with local children. Ian Sloane (as he was then called) came to resent his illegitimacy, and began to see himself as a rebellious outsider, not bound by the same rules as others.
At school he was a bright student and a handsome, well-dressed boy, but not well-liked. At the age of eleven, Ian passed the entrance exams to Shawlands Academy. His potential was never realized, however, as he was lazy, would not apply himself, and misbehaved. He started smoking, and virtually gave up schoolwork.
He developed a fascination with Nazi Germany, Nazi pageantry and Nazi symbolism. He often asked other boys for souvenirs that their fathers brought back from the war, and when playing rough-house war games he would insist on being “the German”. It was at this time that Ian also became known for perverse and sadistic tendencies, including bullying smaller children and torturing animals in a variety of grotesque ways.
By the time he was a teenager, he had been brought before the juvenile courts for incidents of burglary and housebreaking. On the first two occasions he was given probation, but on the third he was deemed incorrigible, and the court ordered him to leave Glasgow and live with his mother. She had since moved to Manchester and had married an Irish laborer named Patrick Brady. In November 1954, two months before his 17th birthday, Ian left the Sloane household and traveled down to join his mother and her new husband. Although he did not get along with Mr. Brady, Ian took his stepfather’s name and used it for his own.
As a Scot exiled in an English city, Ian Brady’s compounded feelings of isolation and hostility began to manifest in other ways. He would often spend hours in his room, reading and listening to music. He developed an interest in the writings of the Marquis de Sade and Friedrich Nietzsche, focusing particular attention on Nietzsche’s theories of Übermensch and The Will to Power. He became increasingly enamored of a philosophy that championed cruelty and torture, and the idea that superior creatures had the right to control (and destroy, if necessary) weaker ones.
Brady avidly collected books about torture and sadomasochism and other paraphilia’s relating to domination and servitude. About this time, he worked as a butcher’s assistant, and some commentators have surmised that the experience of regularly cutting meat away from bone may have nurtured his growing interest in the physical acts of mutilation and murder. He also began drinking heavily and frequenting the cinema, and often found himself in need of extra spending money to support these new habits. Brady also gambled on Horse Races.
The young man soon resorted again to thieving, and after being convicted several more times (plus being arrested and fined for an incident of public drunkenness), he was sentenced to two years training at a Borstal school as well as a spell at Strangeways Prison.
While incarcerated, Brady learned illegal techniques for acquiring money, and entertained grandiose fantasies of becoming a big-time criminal, pulling off lucrative bank heists. He hoped to avoid manual labor and aimed to appear respectable, and so studied bookkeeping. His release led to prolonged stretches of unemployment.
He worked as a Laborer for Boddington’s Brewery between April and October 1958, before spending a few more months unemployed. Brady eventually found a job in February 1959 as a stock clerk at Millwards Merchandising.
Almost two years later, in January 1961, he met Myra Hindley
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