Ian Brady has told his mental health tribunal he went on hunger strike after being "attacked" by 12 warders where he had his wrist broken.
The Moors Murderer, 75, recalled he was in his room and heard chanting of "do not resist". He said the warders were dressed in riot gear and balaclavas and held him down for an hour.
He said he was moved by the riot gear staff and then the next day - September 30, 1999 - began his hunger strike.
Wearing a dark suit, white shirt and tie and his customary dark glasses, Brady is speaking at length in public for the first time since 1966 as he attempts to be transferred from a high-security hospital to prison.
Brady said it would be "easy" to cope in jail if he was kept locked up 24 hours a day and kept apart from other prisoners.
The child killer, speaking in a low, halting Scottish accent, is giving evidence to a tribunal sitting at Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside where he has been held for 28 years.
Brady described his life behind bars, how he enjoys "eclectic, freewheeling conversation", how he studied German and psychology and how he walks up and down in his cell reciting Shakespeare and Plato.
Brady said he set up a braille unit and also worked as a barber at Wormwood Scrubs in the 1970s.
Asked by his lawyer Nathalie Lieven QC about relations with staff and patients at Ashworth, Brady said he enjoyed conversations about "everything".
He said: "Eclectic, I can't stand robotic, feeble, whether psychologists or just ordinary people, if I think they are just going through a list of check points.
Brady is one of Britain's most notorious killers "Eclectic, free wheeling conversation. I don't choose the subjects. That's what I enjoy."
Sky's Tom Parmenter said: "He was asked his mental health which is crucial to the hearing because it is his claim that he should not be in a high-security hospital but instead an ordinary prison.
"He was asked about talking to himself in jail, and he said when he was in solitary confinement he would memorise the pages of Shakespeare or Plato and then recite them in his cell.
"He said if he drops a glasses case in a corridor and mutters to himself that would be seized by an opportunistic member of staff and used as evidence. But he also said at the tribunal 'Who doesn't talk to themselves?'"
Brady also made reference to his notoriety as a prisoner, saying the media and the public are still interested in the case.
He said: "They (public and media) are obsessed with the case. Why are they still talking about Jack the Ripper, after a century?
"It fascinates them so, the dramatic background, the fog, cobbled streets. The moors is the same thing... Wuthering Heights, Hound Of The Baskervilles."
The last time Brady spoke so publicly was in court in Chester when he was convicted 47 years ago and jailed for life for three murders.
Brady, who has been on hunger strike since 1999, has previously said he wants to starve himself to death in jail where he cannot be force fed.
Currently, he is fed through a tube in his nose, although the panel heard on Monday he is actually eating other foods and makes himself toast every morning.
Myra Hindley was also convicted of child killings Since 2002 Brady has repeatedly asked for a public hearing which he said would provide "true independence", the tribunal has heard.
His legal team say he has a severe narcissistic personality disorder but is not mentally ill and could be treated in prison rather than hospital.
But Ashworth say Brady is still chronically mentally ill and remains a paranoid schizophrenic who needs around-the-clock care.
He has refused medication and therapy for his mental disorders since 2000 as he is "wholly resistant" to any treatment and now tries to hide his mental illness, the tribunal panel was told.
Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, were convicted of luring children and teenagers to their deaths, with their victims sexually tortured before being buried on Saddleworth Moor.
Pauline Reade, 16, disappeared on her way to a disco on July 12, 1963, and John Kilbride, 12, was snatched in November the same year.
Keith Bennett was taken on June 16, 1964, after he left home to visit his grandmother; Lesley Ann Downey, 10, was lured away from a funfair on Boxing Day 1964; and Edward Evans, 17, was killed in October 1965.
Brady was given life for the murders of John, Lesley Ann and Edward.
Hindley was convicted of killing Lesley Ann and Edward and shielding Brady after John's murder, and jailed for life.
Both later confessed to the murders of Pauline - whose body was found in 1987 - and Keith whose body has not been discovered.
Hindley died in hospital, still a prisoner, in November 2002 at the age of 60.
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