Becoming Ian Brady Season 1 Episode 1

A Dark Path

Ian Brady, born Ian Stewart, was born in Glasgow in the early 1930s. He experienced a tough childhood, starting with feelings of abandonment when his mum, unable to cope as a single parent, gave him up for adoption at just four months old, and his home, in the poverty-stricken slums of the Gorbals, was a hotbed of criminality.