Sunday 2 October 2022 12:27 PM Police dig on moors enters a third day as brother of victim Keith Bennett faces ... trends now
The police search for the last victim of Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley this morning entered its third day - as victim Keith Bennett's family were frustrated waiting for news, saying they did not believe he was there.
On Friday author Russell Edwards said he believed he has located the youngster's makeshift grave following 'extensive soil analysis' which indicated the presence of human remains.
He thinks Nazi-obsessed Brady wanted to create the shape of a swastika with the spots on Saddleworth Moor where he buried his victims.
So far it had been reported human remains had been located but Greater Manchester Police said its investigation had found none.
Supplied new photographs and information are considered so compelling forensic officers will continue their work until all avenues are exhausted, which could take days longer due to 'difficult' conditions.
But Keith's brother Alan expressed exasperation today about the search - although accepted things could not be ruled out.
He wrote online: 'I am just getting frustrated, annoyed, confused and feeling a lot more emotions because there is more to this than meets the eye and I cannot understand why that bloke appears not to have been exact in his information to the police about the location.
'Surely, he cannot have forgotten exactly where it is after his claims about his years of investigations. Just a few of the hundreds of thoughts running through my mind.
'I still believe Keith is not in that location and I still believe there were no other victims.
'However, nobody can rule anything else out. I just cannot understand why nothing has been found.'
Police searching an area of moorland where the body of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's final missing victim could be buried say no human remains have been found.
It was hoped their excavations would reveal the remains of Keith Bennett, a 12-year-old schoolboy murdered in 1964
Keith Bennett was snatched by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. He is their only victim who has never been found
Between July 1963 and October 1965 Myra Hindley, left, and Ian Brady, right murdered five children. Hindley died in 2002 and Brady in 2017 without revealing the location of Bennett's body
Keith, 12, was taken by Brady and Hindley after they pulled up in a van as he walked to his grandmother's house in Manchester in 1964.
The evil pair tricked him into the vehicle before sexually assaulted, strangled and buried him in a shallow grave, which has never been found.
Senior Investigating Officer Cheryl Hughes said yesterday: “Following information received which indicated that potential human remains had been found on the Moors, specialist officers have resumed excavation of a site identified to us.
“This information included photographs of the site and show what experts working with the informant have interpreted as a human jaw bone. No physical evidence of a jaw bone or skull has been examined.
One theory is Nazi-obsessed Brady wanted to create the shape of a swastika with the spots on Saddleworth Moor where he buried his victims
GMP Force Review Officer Cheryl Hughes confirmed the team hadn't found any new evidence that the youngster had been buried there
“However, based on the photographs and information provided, and in line with GMP’s usual practice to follow-up any suggestion of human burial, we began our search of the site of interest.
“We have not found any identifiable human remains but our work to excavate the site is continuing.
“Conditions are difficult and it may take us some time to fully complete the excavation but we are committed to ensuring this is undertaken in the most thorough way possible.”
Between July 1963 and October 1965, the Brady and Hindley killed five children aged between 10 and 17 in a two-year killing spree which shocked the nation.
Police are digging on the Moors for murder victim Keith Bennett for the first time in 35 years to investigate suspected human remains. Suspected human remains – including what experts believe to be a child's skull – are reported to have been found
Haunted: Keith's mum Winnie, who died in 2012 without ever knowing where her son was buried. Pictured with the famous 'missing' poster of her son
