Priti Patel will change the law in an attempt to unlock the final secrets of Moors Murderer Ian Brady, the Mail reveals today.
The Home Secretary is to bring in legislation which will force the serial killer’s solicitor to give police access to personal paperwork for the first time.
Detectives have so far been refused permission to examine the documents contained in two combination-locked briefcases left by Brady after his death in 2017.
They may contain details which could lead detectives to the body of Keith Bennett, the 12-year-old murdered by sadistic Brady and his lover Myra Hindley in 1964.
Artists impression of Brady, left. He had been on hunger strike for more than a decade and force fed through a tube in his nose. Priti Patel, right, is to bring in legislation which will force the serial killer’s solicitor to give police access to personal paperwork for the first time