Moors murderer Ian Brady's book on serial killers is due to go on sale in the UK.

The book is to be published on Tuesday despite objections from the relatives of his victims.

The Gates of Janus, Serial Killing and its Analysis, attacks religion, human nature, the behaviour of elites in human society, police chiefs, authors, journalists and judges.

Brady also suggests academics and police chiefs use killers as their personal vehicle to fame and fortune.

Turnaround Publisher Services backed the book's publication.

Its managing director Bill Godber said prior to Tuesday's publication: "We thought long and hard about the various problems associated with the title but we believe that it will be of considerable interest to criminologists, the police and the general reader.

Reprints

He said demand had already been exceptional.

"The book has already sold out in the US and a reprint will be put in hand immediately."

In analysing notorious serial killers, Brady notes: "In actuality, subconsciously or consciously, the serial killer has emotionally chosen to live one day as a lion, rather than decades as a sheep.

"Once the killer has committed the first or second act of homicide, he will gradually accept his own acts as normal, or supranormal, and that of the rest of humanity as subnormal and weak."

Brady, 62, is a patient at Ashworth Hospital on Merseyside.

Brady writes: "You will presently discover that this work is not an apologia.

"Why should it be? To whom should I apologise, and what difference would it make to anyone?