The BBC has apologised after Moors murderer Ian Brady was used as the answer to a mystery person quiz on a local radio station.
During the Sunday breakfast show on BBC Radio Leeds, the presenter said he would be playing four songs linked to "someone well known who has been in the news this week" and asked listeners to guess the person's identity.
DJ Nathan Turvey, who was standing in for the station's regular Sunday presenter, first played Mott The Hoople's All The Young Dudes and The Brady Bunch theme song.
He then played a song written in memory of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's victims - Suffer Little Children by The Smiths. That was followed by Psycho Killer by The Talking Heads.
The radio segment was posted to Radiofail, a website featuring mistakes by DJs.
In the recording of the show, Turvey can be heard saying: "They were four songs all linked to someone in the news this week, all you've got to do is work out who it is."
Revealing the answer later, he referred to The Smiths' song and said: "It's called Suffer Little Children, all about the Moors murders - may have given the game away, that one, I think."
Horrified listeners expressed their outrage on Twitter, with one calling the competition "mind-boggling" and another saying it was "beyond Partridge", in reference to Steve Coogan's radio presenter parody Alan Partridge.
Following the show, a BBC spokesman said: "This was clearly unacceptable and we apologise."
Brady and Hindley killed five children aged between 10 and 17 from 1963 to 1965.
He died in a psychiatric hospital last week after spending half a century locked up for the murders. Hindley died in 2002.
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