Latest images from Saddleworth Moor as search for Keith Bennett continues following reported discovery of remains

The search for Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett continued today following the reported discovery of part of a skull. Investigations on Saddleworth Moor were ongoing on Saturday lunchtime (October 1).

It comes following the reported discovery of human remains, understood to be part of a skull. Police are treating the report seriously, but remain cautious.

There are renewed hopes the final Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett will finally be found - 58 years on.

The site was guarded by officers overnight. Specialist police and firefighters returned to the dig location, near Dove Stone Reservoir on Saturday morning. Firefighters have been called to pump water out following torrential rainfall.

The reported discovery was said to have been made in a remote location, triggering a wider excavation by Greater Manchester Police. Any remains that are taken for analysis by GMP will not be identified for weeks, according to the force.

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Officers involved digging near memorials to Keith and his mother Winnie, who kept faith throughout her life that she would find out where her son was buried.

Keith was one of five innocents killed between July 1963 and October 1965, in and around Greater Manchester. Brady and Hindley, both in their 20s, lured children and teenagers to their deaths, then buried them on Saddleworth Moor.

In 1966, the twisted couple Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were found guilty of torturing and killing John Kilbride, 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17. Almost 20 years later, Brady admitted in an interview with a journalist that he had also killed Keith and Pauline Reade, 16.

Tragically, Winnie Johnson died in 2012,