Human remains found on Saddleworth Moor in the search for Keith Bennett will not be identified for weeks, say police. Part of a skull, was recovered in a remote location triggering a wider excavation by Greater Manchester Police.
The search comes after author Russell Edwards brought together a team of experts in a bid to find where Moors Murderer victim Keith had been buried. He passed information to GMP who last night went to a remote location to dig at the spot where his team found the remains.
Force forensic experts are hoping to obtain DNA from any body tissue they discover so they can confirm that the remains are those of Keith. It is understood a tiny piece of clothing has also been found buried 3ft underground beside the skull.
The MEN understands it will take a week to a fortnight to establish if the remains - a lower jaw, with teeth - are the remains of Keith. The jaw part was left in in soil after being spotted during a dig by Mr Edwards' team. Photographs of it were then shown to GMP.
Keith was just 12 when he was lured into a van by Myra Hindley who asked him to help her with some boxes. Her lover and fellow killer Ian Brady was sat on the back seat, on June 16th 1964.
Keith and his family were living in Eston Street, Longsight. Several nights a week to give their mother Winnie a break her children would stay with their grandma, Gertrude.
Alan, then eight, his sister Maggie, three, and brother, Ian, seven, arrived at their gran's in Morton Street, the other side of Stockport Road. Sister Sylvia, 11, and step sister, Susan, 11, stayed at Eston Street.
Winnie walked Keith to Stockport Road to make sure he was safely across, then waved goodbye. He was never seen again. He would have walked down Dallas Street,
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