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    Ian Brady and Myra Hindley


    Victims: John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, Keith Bennett, 12, Pauline Reade, 16, and Edward Evans, 17



    Burial spot: Tributes to Keith left by his mum on the moors and monster Brady (bottom)


    June 8, 2014

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    Matthew Drake and Don Hale
    The Mirror

    Moors Murders shock: New hunt planned for four victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley

    A fresh hunt for Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett will be launched next week.

    Experts claim they know where the 12-year-old was buried by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

    For 50 years the family of Keith have suffered the heartache of not knowing where the tragic youngster’s body lies.

    But their hopes of finding his remains were tonight given a boost by a team of search *specialists who next Monday will begin the new hunt for him and three other missing children they believe could be buried in the same area.

    Keith’s brother Alan said he has also obtained new evidence that may pinpoint where the evil pair buried his sibling in 1964.

    Although not connected to the new search, he added: “My mother campaigned her entire life to be able to give Keith the Christian burial he deserved.

    "We will continue her efforts and will never cease until he is found and laid to rest.”


    Cheeky: Keith, back left, in 60s with brothers and sister


    After 50 years, experts believe they have pinpointed where the body of Keith Bennett and three other children are buried

    The team that will start hunting for the youngsters on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester next week is headed by Welsh Mountain Rescue leader David Jones.

    He is convinced new evidence will bring them closer than “anyone has ever got” to finding Keith and the other missing children, who are thought to be victims of a *paedophile gang linked to Brady.

    David said: “We think there could well be other bodies, but our priority is finding Keith Bennett.

    “I am hoping 100% that we can find Keith, but I am aware that it might not be him buried.

    “We’ve identified three specific new areas of the moor and will operate a grid system of search using the "equipment and dogs.”

    Keith’s mum Winnie went to her grave in 2012 never knowing where her son’s body was buried, despite a lifetime tirelessly campaigning to get to the truth.


    Agony: Winnie died without knowing the location of her son.


    David, who was also involved in searching for buried IRA victims, visited Saddleworth Moor with her four years ago.

    He identified 19 patches of interest at that time. But he revealed new evidence and a process of elimination has now reduced the area to the three football pitch-sized sections he will begin searching.

    David added: “We had a really good relationship with Winnie. She always claimed Brady knew where Keith was buried, but believed he didn’t want him found.

    "She said she wanted closure and hoped Keith would be found while Brady was still alive.”

    The team will use sniffer dogs and the latest hi-tech equipment to search the bleak moor where they believe the children are buried.


    Smiles: Keith (left) alongside his siblings


    The hunt will begin 50 years to the day Keith vanished on his way to his gran’s home in Manchester on June 16, 1964.

    Two of the specially-trained hounds – used to find bodies – were last week in Malaya helping in the search for tragic British backpacker Gareth Huntley.

    Extensive research commissioned by a consortium of professional individuals, including a High Court judge, lawyers and former police officers, committed to finding the truth about the Moors Murders and other killings will be made public in a few days.

    Their detailed analysis has found “fresh facts” they hope will lead to them to the buried bodies.


    Evil: Brady and Hindley at site where victims lay


    The project’s spokesman said: “We want to crack this case and my party feel we are getting very close.

    “It is a very sensitive issue and we have a lot of people working quietly in the background, scientists amongst others looking to find reasons why Keith’s body has never been found.”

    Alan, from Manchester, also hopes to be able to convince police to carry out a separate search of the area.

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    Ian Brady escaped hanging – and defined attitudes to the death penalty

    Apart from their sheer horror, the Moors murders stayed in the public imagination because they marked the end of capital punishment

    By Martin Kettle
    The Guardian

    Ian Brady retained his dark grip on the British imagination right to the very end. The 1965 police photograph of the Moors murderer stared out from the front pages once more this week to mark his death at 79, just as they have done so often ever since Brady was convicted of three murders in May 1966. Few criminals of any era are front-page news for half a century; Brady and his accomplice, Myra Hindley, were unquestionably two of them.

    The most obvious reason for this 50-year notoriety is, of course, the sheer horror of the crimes that Brady planned and committed. The details of his tortures and acts are unbearable. The transcript of victims’ pleas, never mind the tapes that were heard in court, are as shocking as anything one could ever encounter.

    But the revolting nature of the crimes, important though it is, is not the only explanation for the long shadow that Brady cast over Britain into the 21st century. Though the serial murder of children for pleasure, and the involvement of a woman as co-killer, marked the Moors murders out in the annals of British crime, they also came at a potently significant time in the evolution of British penal policy: the abolition of the death penalty.

    Brady and Hindley carried out their killings between 1963 and 1965. Brady was arrested on 7 October 1965.

    However in December 1964, with Harold Wilson’s Labour in a small parliamentary majority, the House of Commons voted by 355 to 170 in favour of the backbencher Sydney Silverman’s bill to abolish hanging in Britain. By the time that Brady was arrested, Silverman’s bill had almost completed its parliamentary journey. A month after the arrest, the bill became law. Hanging was abolished on 9 November 1965.

    So by the time that Brady and Hindley’s cases came to trial, at Chester in April 1966, the sentence for murder that would have applied at the time they killed their victims had changed from hanging to life imprisonment. As a result, for very many people, Brady and Hindley became the totemic faces of a Britain that they believed had “gone soft” on crime.

    The importance of the intimacy between the Moors murders and the abolition of the death penalty is hard to overstate. Even before the trial, the killings became the focus of a campaign to bring back hanging.

    In the general election of 31 March 1966, Silverman was challenged in the Nelson and Colne constituency in northern Lancashire, which he had represented since 1935, by Patrick Downey, the uncle of one of his victims, Lesley Ann Downey. Downey stood on a single-plank, pro-hanging platform. Silverman held on with an increased majority (he died two years later). But Downey took 5,117 votes, nearly 14% of the total, amid great publicity.

    Downey’s intervention was the trigger for an immediate repoliticisation of the hanging issue by senior Conservatives, notably the former cabinet minister Duncan Sandys. As early as the autumn of 1966, Sandys tried to launch a bill to reintroduce hanging for the killers of police officers.

    This was to be the first of a regularly recurring series of attempts to bring back hanging over the ensuing 20 years, generally backed by large majorities in the opinion polls. And while Brady himself had not killed a police officer, he and Hindley were regularly front and centre of every press and parliamentary campaign to bring back the rope.

    Fifty years on, the campaign to bring back hanging has lost most of its momentum. Conservative party general election manifestos no longer commit, as they did in the 1970s and 1980s, to a free vote on the issue in the next parliament. Parliament has not debated hanging since 1998. Most MPs of all parties are now firm abolitionists. In 2015 the British Social Attitudes Survey reported that only 48% of the public supported bringing back the rope, perhaps the first time that the return of capital punishment fell short of a poll majority. It was the lowest figure since the survey began in 1983, when around 75% of people were in favour.

    The media coverage of Brady’s death shows that all the many passions that were aroused for so long by his killings have not quite died with him. There will still be journalists, retired police officers and relatives of the victims who will demand another inquiry or dig on Saddleworth Moor, where the victims’ bodies were buried. Yet when Brady’s ashes are disposed of – perhaps they already have been – Britain can perhaps finally lay to rest the long and lingering possibility from the 1960s that hanging will ever return.

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    Keith Bennett mystery SOLVED? Ian Brady left clues revealing WHERE he buried body

    EVIL serial killer Ian Brady left a trail of clues leading to the burial ground of his tragic 12-year-old victim Keith Bennett.

    Monster Brady died of heart failure, aged 79, last week after a long battle with cancer.

    The evil killer tortured, raped and slaughtered five children along with lover Myra Hindley in Greater Manchester during the 1960s.

    Among his victims was schoolboy Keith, whose body was never found despite decades of desperate searches.

    It is thought he buried his body on Saddleworth Moor – where four of his victim’s bodies were found.

    Brady, who passed away at the Ashworth High Security Hospital in Merseyside, took the secret to his grave.

    But now Jackie Powell, Brady’s former mental health worker, claims a spade left near the burial site could hold the key to the riddle.

    The 54-year-old, who worked with Brady since 1999, believes the murderer left the trowel close to where he buried the body.

    ackie said: “Brady was a control freak. There’s no way he buried a body and then cannot remember where it was.

    “He said he left clues. He and Hindley called them their ‘landmarks’.

    “He told me they left a trowel near where they buried the body – I can only imagine they had used it to dig the grave.

    “They left it in a little stream that follows a fence. He told me it was along the county border.

    "He thought about it a lot and imagined how it had rusted, lying in the stream all these years."

    Jackie told police about the shovel but does not know if they acted on it.

    She added: “Those hours I spent with Brady will haunt me for the rest of my life.”

    Her account comes amid fears Brady could have his ashes scattered on Saddleworth Moor in one last cruel trick on his victims' families.

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