When news broke last Friday morning that police were back on the moors looking for the remains of Keith Bennett, his brother Alan braced himself.
It's a road he and his late mother Winnie Johnson travelled many times, on each occasion setting out in the hope that at last they'd be able find Keith and give him a proper burial. Each journey has ended in heartbreak, disappointment and sometimes downright anger.
After a week of painstaking digging and analysis by police-commissioned experts, today (Friday) officers have been forced to admit defeat. No human remains have been found despite information from author and amateur sleuth Russell Edwards to the contrary. A picture he took - which has not been made public - purporting to show parts of a child's jaw may simply show vegetation, according to GMP.
