Moors Murderer Ian Brady's final wish to have music that depicts a "diabolical orgy" played at his cremation has been rejected by a High Court judge.

Ruling that playing the fifth movement of the Symphony Fantastique would cause "legitimate offence" to the families of the serial killer's victims, the Chancellor of the High Court, Sir Geoffrey Vos, ordered that his body must be disposed of with "no music and no ceremony".

Brady, who used the name Ian Stewart-Brady, died aged 79 on May 15 this year, but his remains have not yet been disposed of.

Sir Geoffrey had been asked by two local authorities to make decisions relating to the disposal of the serial killer's body so that it can be "lawfully and decently disposed of without further delay".

Brady and Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s.