Police digging on the Moors for murder victim Keith Bennett as skull found

Police are digging on Saddlewoorth Moor for murder victim Keith Bennett after remains were found. The remains appear to be a skull, but police are treating the discovery with caution.

The remains were found during an independent search, before being reported to Greater Manchester Police.

Keith, 12, was snatched 58-years-ago by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and the case has never been resolved.

But now, detectives are preparing to dig an area after remains were found, it has been reported.

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Ian Brady was born Ian Stewart in Glasgow on January 2 1938, the illegitimate son of a waitress.

Neglected by his mother Peggy, he was raised by foster parents in the Gorbals from the age of four months and turned to petty crime when he reached adolescence.

The courts sent the young Brady to Manchester to live with his mother and her new boyfriend, Patrick Brady, whose surname he would later assume.

He became a teenage alcoholic and developed new interests. He read Mein Kampf as part of a burgeoning obsession with Nazi Germany and also developed an interest in sexual perversion and cruelty, devouring erotic literature written by Marquis de Sade.

He spent some time in Strangeways as a boy of 17 and, after his release in November 1957, he took a job as a stock clerk at a Manchester chemical firm Millward’s Merchandising.

It was here he met one of the secretaries, a 17-year-old called Myra Hindley. They went to see ‘The Nuremberg Trials’ at the cinema on their first date.

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GMP Force Review Officer Martin Bottomley said: “At around 11.25am on Thursday 29 September 2022, Greater Manchester Police was contacted by the representative