Niece of Moors murder victim finds long lost picture 60 years after tragedy

A never-seen-before photo of Moor murder victim Pauline Reade has been shared 60 years after she was killed.

The old family photo shows Pauline smiling sweetly for the camera in her Sunday best just before heading to church in the outskirts of Manchester. She is alongside elder brother Paul.

The poignant image is believed to have been taken in 1953, a decade before her death at the hands of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. It is not known exactly when the photo was taken, but Pauline – the first victim snatched by the monsters at 16 on her way to a local dance on July 12, 1963 – is believed to have been about six or seven.

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Taken from an old film roll found in a box of memories in a loft, the photo was developed by The Mirror for Pauline’s niece Jackie Reade as she spoke about her family's heartbreak 60 years on from the Moor murders.

“I always thought my auntie might have been on the film but hadn’t any way to get it developed,” Jackie, 49, told the publication. “I keep crying looking at it.”

Today she tells how she became a comfort to her shattered gran Joan after the unbearable loss of her daughter because she reminded her of Pauline.

“I think until Pauline’s body was found in 1987, my nana had never given up hope she would be found alive, that she would come home,” she explained.

“Even when we used to walk down the road holding hands she was always looking out in a certain way. I used to say, ‘What are you looking at?’ She’d say, ‘I’m just looking.’ But I thought she was looking for Pauline. That’s why she never moved house. She stayed in the area, just in case.”

Jackie vividly recalls the day she first found out her aunt had