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Moors Murderer Ian Brady’s dying wish was that two locked briefcases were lodged with his lawyer.

The Glaswegian monster, 79, who died in 2017, never revealed where victim Keith Bennett, 12, was buried and relatives hope the cases could hold clues.

Terry Kilbride, whose brother John was also killed by Brady, previously insisted: “There must be something in those cases.”

Brady took his evil secrets to the grave as he died in “distress” gasping for air, the Daily Record reported.

But with his final words, he ordered that two locked Samsonite briefcases should be taken from his bedside and handed to his solicitor Robin Makin.

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He had already insisted they should not be opened until after his death.

The revelation at Brady’s inquest in September 2017 gave hope of new clues to locate the body of Keith Bennett – the only victim of Brady and Myra Hindley never to be found.

Keith’s mother, Winnie Johnson, died in 2012 without knowing her son’s final resting place.

But at the inquest his brother Alan, 57, insisted the child killer’s death had not meant the “end of the search”, adding: “Let Keith and the other victims be in our thoughts.”

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Terry Kilbride, 62, whose brother John was another of Brady’s five victims, also previously said: “There must be something in those briefcases for him to go to those lengths to hide them away.

“It’s all the hope we have for finding Keith.”

And Terry West, 66, brother of victim Lesley Ann Downey, added: “I would like to know what’s in those briefcases.

“Fingers crossed there might be ­something that would finally help us to find Keith’s body.”

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Brady and Hindley were jailed for life in 1966 over the killings of John, 12, Lesley Ann, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.

In 1985, Brady confessed to the murders of Keith and Pauline Reade, 16.

That same year, he was admitted to Ashworth high security hospital in Merseyside and given the alias Ian Steel, the inquest heard.

By the time of his death in May 2017, he was an invalid.

He suffered from emphysema, brought on by heavy smoking – a habit he kept up until it was banned at the hospital in 2008.

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Five-and-a-half hours before he died on May 15 2017, he was found to be “laboured in his breathing and agitated”.

But he summoned his remaining strength to make a final request.

Dr Thomas said: “He asked for his solicitor to be notified and requested his locked briefcases be removed from his room.”

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He was declared dead at 6.02pm. The inquest heard he died of heart failure brought on by lung disease.

Dr Thomas said Brady was a paranoid schizophrenic with an underlying “narcissistic and “anti-social” personality disorder, adding: “He was also thought to suffer from a number of deviant sexual ­disorders, to include sadism and paedophilia.”

Brady would not engage with psychiatrists or take anti-psychotic drugs. He would verbally abuse staff and demand a move to a mainstream prison, but was refused.

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Dr Thomas also dismissed Brady’s 18-year “hunger strike”.

He said the prisoner was fed by a nasogastric tube up his nose but also took solid food and drinks.

The doctor added: “Clinical teams regularly sought to bring an end to his reported ‘hunger strike’, recognising he was regularly accepting diet and fluids, alongside or substituted for his NG feed."

Pathologist Dr Brian Rodgers, who carried out a postmortem, said Brady weighed 9st 8lb at the time of his death with no sign of “emaciation”.

Meanwhile partner Hindley died in 2002, she was aged 60.