I would just like to say a big thank you to everyone who has watched this video. In the last few days, it has been incredibly popular on my channel and your support is immense. For some context, this interview was for a documentary I did, so the questions were generally specific to the premise of the documentary - however, I would have asked more if I had more time with Mr. Coid as we were on a tight schedule. I am looking to do a video about my letters to Ian Brady and if that is something you guys are interested in seeing please give this comment a like and tell me what you’d like to know in that video and I’ll try my best to accommodate as much as I can! Thank you once again!

Thank you for not adding music to this.

Professor Jeremy Coid brought by Thomas Gardner, thank you both for this educated insight, confirmation of assessment of dangerous personalities that appear in ordinary society psychopathic characteristics within our communities, comments here are most appreciated for those of us coming to terms with trauma as a result of being preyed upon by the above sadistic humans, I pray God's blessings for you and your families ❤❤

How refreshing listening to a highly intelligent man speaking without any sensationalism even though it’s such a macabre subject.

Sitting watching this on night-shift (mental health nurse), very interesting. I spent some time as a student working in a medium secure forensic ward and also worked briefly in a prison. The human condition is endlessly fascinating.

So nice to see a very fascinating interview without all the sensationalism and music that we now have on almost every video about this type of subject

I worked prison landings for many years. There were occasionally some prisoners that stood out from the rest as literally making your skin crawl. Call it officer intuition, I don’t know, but recently I met a man in public that was trying to make a good impression on me but gave me that very same feeling. There are just some humans that exude a sinister presence.

I am not a watcher of true crime and have little interest in serial killers but the professors face looked so kind I was drawn in. What a wonderful honest account. No nonsense, no conjecture just an honest account. Great interview. Feeling a bit yuk now though after listening. That’s me and serial killers for another 40 or so years. Done. 😕

Incredible professionalism. What an unusual man Professor Coid is. Such intellect is rare and we should cherish this as an antidote to the feral witch hunting hysteria of the tabloids and the people who read them. Thanks for this.

One of the most fascinating and insightful assessments of Brady I have ever encountered in book or film over the many years I have studied him. Thank you!

A proper interview with a real expert. No pretense. Just facts . Thank you

Great interview. I could have watched this man speak all day, articulate and intelligent as he is.

What an interesting interview with such an intelligent man. Excellent questions from the interviewer too. Honestly I could have watched hours of this.

I could listen to professor Coid all day.

I’m so glad he said it how it is, sadism, a talented dignified professional,well done🇬🇧

I understand the urge to pathologise evil but I am reminded of Charles Baudelaire's line ' the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince us he doesnt exist'

What an interesting man. Great interview.

I’ve had gut feelings around certain people before and it isn’t nice. You get an aura around some people and the only thing you can do is get away from them as quickly as you can.

This actually is a really good English-exercise. Prof. Coid is so well spoken.

Very interesting that he believes Brady to have been 'born bad' and that he felt a great dislike for him, that's very honest. I'm so glad neither of them were released, Life without parole should be the sentence in many more cases.

Really fascinating and compelling interview. It's a rare glimpse into the inner world and personal impressions, behind ones clinical judgement and professional expertise. It seems like Ian Brady is one of the most challenging patients any psychiatrist is likely to encounter, not just in terms of the gravity of his crimes, but the power dynamics that are testing the psyche to attempt to control and dominate. It takes a seriously psychologically strong individual with razor sharp instincts, knows their weak spots and vulnerabilities inside out, to be in control throughout.

This reminds me of my mum's accounts of being the army driver assigned to the British psychiatrist who attended Rudolf Hess when he was first imprisoned after capture, on the way home he used to tell my mum about the insights which he had gained about Hitler's deputy.

In the 80's I met and became firm friends with an ex GMP CID Sargant who worked on the Moors Murders case. I sat with him as he told me all about his time on that case. He said he "befriended" Brady and they talked at length. He said he was aware that Brady loved to be in control and would talk about himself all the time. Mr friend said he would sit there for hours listening to him, without interruption, Brady loved that and had a lot of trust in him. They went back to the moors to "look for" the graves of his victims. He was smiling and said the Police would never find them ( the children ) It was the momentos he and Hindley they kept ( photographs ) that led them to several. By analysing the backgrounds in the photographs ( Hindley was photographed sat ontop of a slight mound of earth) when they found that site, they dug and found one of the children. He said he found Hindley to be pure evil, far worse than Brady. Spend many an hour totally enthralled with the stories from my ex CID friend. I was 15 at the time of the murders and I can remember my Mother telling me about the tape recording of the murder of the little girl. She said she cried all that day. I dont think tapes like that would ever be made public these days.

I heard a clip of lesley pleading for her mum many years ago on a documentary on tv. It still haunts me

I enjoyed him slapping down the idea of Brady having PTSD

Makes you want to know more about the Professor. So interesting.

Fascinating interview. Thanks for posting.

I studied Applied Psychology at LJMU and we had a guest lecture by one of Brady's Doctors from Ashworth Hospital (can't rember the chaps name - would have been about 1992 / 1993) and we weren't allowed to record the lecture on dictaphones or anything like that. The guy said that Brady was one of the mostly mentally unwell people that he had ever treated.

Interesting the Prof answered fairly succinctly and good job by interviewer to keep questions coming

What he said about Brady was spot on.

Brilliant interview from a former colleague. Thanks for uploading the full version.

I love how he’s got a book on antisocial behaviour near a “cooking for friends” book 😂

Great interview btw. Thank you for posting.

Many years ago in a bookshop I found a book about the moors murderers that contained transcripts of the tapes. I felt total revulsion and had to put the book back after reading only a few lines. Very upsetting.

What insight into a murderer, just shows you that Brady was a complete monster and so was Hindley. I just hope one day they find Keith so that finally he can be laid to rest with his mother. RIP Keith! x

Excellent clear and critical analysis of very dangerously sick people, brilliant professional man.

What a fascinating interview.

Excellent interview 🇬🇧👍

I found it Interesting the negative feeling he sensed.

My father gave me the book Beyond Belief by Emlyn Williams when I was 13 (1973) It changed my life… I don’t regret reading it and have re-read it more than once.

I love how his books are all about psycho stuff, and then there's a Raymond Blanc 'Cooking for Friends' book snuck in there.

What an intelligent and eloquent interview, fascinating 🧐

Really scary stuff. It’s hard to imagine people like Brady existed. Having zero empathy is not a good way to live.

Loved this interview: interesting, captivating, honest and straight to the point. I agree, I could have watched for longer. Fantastic-great job.

Absolutely brilliant! The questions you asked were so good, I can't think of one that I wouldn't have wanted to ask myself. Thanks for sharing this 👌🏼

Very interesting listening ... thank you both!! 👏👏👏 Respect to this Professor 💜

At the time, the news played the tape of that poor little girl begging for her life. I only heard it played once. It is NEVER MENTIONED, and I don't think it was played again. I was only a child myself but I remember it so vividly and am certain I didn't imagine it. But it probably doesn't exist anymore, or any records of it Brady most certainly did torture his victims, mentally and physically. Only those alive at the time know what was reported.

Great interview. This just popped up in my feed. I hope the spike in views brings you many more subscribers, which you deserve.

Fascinating - thank you for uploading this! I wish the full documentary were available to watch somewhere...?! I also bet Professor Coid could author a really interesting book of his experiences!

Really interesting. I was very distracted by all of the books on the shelf - I'd love to read some of them!

Fascinating interview with a v professional psychiatrist, thank you. Shame it wasn’t longer and more in depth, but well done for getting the interview. Just subscribed 👍

Loved the approach you took to this interview 👍 👏 👌

This is a really good, very interesting interview. I like how there is a lot more speaking from the person with the first hand experience of the matter.

Thanks for posting this 🙏💚

I met one of the nurses who used to restrain him for his forced feeding. They said it was pretty brutal and Brady hated it. Hopefully there really is a Hell.

Fascinating man. Great vid.

Fascinating, thanks

Great interview! What a shame Brady and Hindley missed out the death penalty.

Beautiful interview!

I'd like to have the Professor discuss more about the negative feeling Brady brought him, where the reaction comes from . Was it an ego reaction as in I'm a professional who has studied and am well respected in my field which is why I'm interviewing Brady who is acting as if in control of the situation and believes he knows more than me or was it a physical reaction as in some sort of a basic human instinct reaction to Brady being dangerous to his emotional well being as well as a physical threat. It must take a heavy amount of training and experience to be able to distance oneself from feelings as a human being in a situation like this .. to not make assumptions based on whatever knowledge you have of someone or even for what they are presenting like in front of you. It's absolutely fascinating.

Brilliant interview

Brilliant interview.

Excellent interview!

Thank you, Professor Coid. You revealed a lot.

Very interesting interview. Could have listened to a lot more!

I had partially forgotten that Brady was in fact dead. He and Hindley were convicted the year I was born (1966) and their story was always in the extreme background of my life as two particularly nasty murderers who were locked up somewhere, I'd heard he was dead,a nano seconds worth of response and I thought of it no more, my mind re settling as 'two particularly nasty murderers who were locked up somewhere'.

Very interesting interview, not just in content but in seeing someone dealing with very difficult work in a completely professional and dispassionate manner. A couple of his more personal responses to / observations of the interaction with Brady confirmed things I've learned in my own work about the nature of individuals who commit these kinds of murders. Interesting to hear that coming from a forensic psychiatrist.

Fascinating insightful interview.

Great interview

This is really interesting insight into something (someone) that is so inexplicable. Great work.

Great interview. Great video. I have subscribed.

It's very interesting that Scotland, a country with a tiny population, produced so many serial killers in the 20th century. Apart from Brady there was Denis Nilsen, Peter Tobin, Robert Black, Angus Sinclair, Peter Manuel, Bible John and probably now Andrew Hunter. I suspect that in a lot of those cases, the brutal poverty and violence that was all too common back then in places like Glasgow were a major factor in pulling the trigger on what was probably already a loaded gun, genetically.

Really excellent interview, thanks so much for posting. Im curious as to why he wouldn't comment on the Winnie Johnson letters. I think what you're asking there is regarding something Ive wondered about regarding the case. When Brady was asked by Colin Wilson if he had any regret for the killings, he said "my regret is axiomatic and painfully, painfully deep". This is a very strange statement coming from a psychopath. It makes one think about the nature of psychopathy and if even psychopaths can experience regret concerning crimes of this magnitude of horror. This quote by the way can be found in Colin Wilson's introduction to Brady's book 'The Gates of Janus'.

He was born and grew up in Glasgow. Interesting... I always thought he was from England. Myra Hindley was from England. Myra Hindley was just as evil imo.

It would be interesting to know if any neurophysiology is ever able to be analysed and any anomalies chemical imbalance/differences/cell loss ascertained.

Interesting point the psychiatrist makes about Brady having an almost autistic disorder about controlling and not being hardwired properly. These traits are the same with individuals like Robert napper too.

Listening to this, I realise I have worked with many psychopaths over the years...

What a fascinating man and great interview.

What a great interviewer.

Its always difficult to msintain a superior intellect when you're spending life in jail and the rest of us aren't.

A great psychiatrist - and a gentleman

It’s a shame Ian didn’t go down south because if he’d met Dennis they might have bored each other to death with their endless monologues of run of the mill nonsense,🇬🇧

Interesting he mentions criminality. My aunt was a psychiatrist and she would say that while you could have many narcissistic, psychopathic or borderline traits clustering in one person she personally would not diagnose a personality disorder in someone who was able to function in society. So all these ruthless bosses or politicians we like to label psychopaths she wouldve regarded as having traits, but unless they committed a crime she wouldn't have diagnosed them.

I like that he keeps his cookery books next to Handbook of Antisocial Behavior and Handbook of Pyschopathy

You asked some great questions.

Very interesting. I've wanted something with this depth about this person

What an interesting man!

Fascinating

A psychiatrist with no ego. How refreshing. Great interview.

Would have been interesting if he could have met Myra and given his take on her... compared to Ian.

"Mr Brady" you give it far too much humanity

Utterly fascinating to watch. The questions were very interesting. The Professor was measured and to the point. I was in the military in the 80s. We had a young girl who had tortured and killed other children. The hospital staff insisted on her being guarded 24/7. That was my job. One evening we had a power cut I will never forget her saying in the dark are you scared.

I think David and Maureen Smith reported that as Brady murdered 17 year old Edward Evans he was screaming at the boy "Bastard. Bastard". I also read in the book 'Beyond Belief' that as a child growing in Glasgow's Gorbals, Brady was called a bastard, his mother being unmarried. Who knows?

A feeling of dislike towards a sadistic child murderer? How strange!

Professor Coid sounds like a brilliant man

Good interview. Ian Brady had acid running through his veins.

Absolutely fascinating interview. Thank you. Jeremy Bamber has been psychoanalysed on numerous occasions since being jailed 39 years ago and no evidence exists for him being a psychopath. That's probably because he is completely innocent of the crimes he is serving time for and that it was indeed a murder/suicide as first evident. A mountain of evidence of his innocence exists and is currently being sat on by the CCRC. Any help you can offer would be gratefully accepted.

In the bookcase behind, amid all the psycho books is one titled ''Cooking for friends''...Silence of the Lambs anyone?

It struck me some time ago that the parents of the children killed are still being tortured by the perpetrators. That seems a major motivator for these crimes. The control and exercise of power over the children was relatively short lived. The torture of the family and friends of the children went on for decades. I want to know more about the childhood of the male perpetrator. Was he enacting a revenge on parents for his own failed childhood?

Imagine a podcast interviewer doing this interview, let me take you back to your childood then laugh