LONDON, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- A notorious British child killer who infamously became known as the Moors Murderer has been buried at sea in the loneliest funeral ever recorded in the country.
No flowers, or music, or mourners were allowed to watch the ashes of Ian Brady being dispatch in the middle of the night from a boat at sea.
Earlier, Brady's body was cremated, again without any of the usual funereal ceremony that accompanies a final journey.
Brady's death at the age of 79 at a high security mental hospital in Liverpool meant he took to his watery grave the locations of one of the victims he and his co-murderer Myra Hindley murdered.
Four of the five children the pair sexually tortured and killed were buried on the lonely and remote Saddleworth Moor, which straddles the counties of Lancashire and Cheshire in northern England.
Details of the final act in the life and death of Brady were released Friday and reported in British media.
Brady died from natural causes in May and his funeral has taken so long because crematoriums refused to handle his funeral, and there were fears his ashes would be scattered on the lonely moorland.
In the end, a High Court judge ordered that his funeral should be simple and without ceremony to ensure it did not cause offence and distress to the families of his victims.
The trial of Brady and Hindley shocked Britain in the 1960s, with a jury listening to the terrifying last moments of their youngest victim, Lesley Ann Downey, aged 10, captured by her torturers on audio tape.
The mother of another of Keith Bennett, murdered at the age of 12, spent her life searching the remote moorland. She died in 2012 without ever finding his remains.
Both were sentenced to life in prison, never to be allowed their freedom. Hindley died in 2002.
Brady's body was collected from the morgue at the Royal Liverpool Hospital by a council official on the night of Oct. 25, documents have revealed.
With a police escort, his corpse was taken to Southport Crematorium where the cremation began one hour later, with no music or flowers allowed.
Brady's ashes were then placed in a weighted biodegradable urn, driven to Liverpool Marina and dispatched at sea in the early hours of Oct. 26.
