The brother of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett has told of his fury over claims a child’s remains have been found by an amateur sleuth.
Alan Bennett spoke out after police, digging at a site where writer Russell Edwards insisted he discovered a skull, said nothing has yet been located.
The 66-year-old said that he believes forensic teams are looking in the wrong place on Saddleworth Moor, where Keith was buried aged 12, one of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady’s five victims.
Alan said: “I am getting frustrated, annoyed and feeling a lot more emotions because there is more to this than meets the eye.
"I can’t understand why that bloke appears not to have been exact in his information to police about the location. I’m not saying there is nothing there.
“I and many others are confused. I still believe that Keith is not in that location and I still believe that there were no other victims. Nobody can rule anything else out. I just cannot understand why nothing has been found.”
Greater Manchester Police spent a third day searching Saddleworth Moor yesterday. Officer Cheryl Hughes said: “We have not found any identifiable human remains.
“No physical evidence of a jaw bone or skull has been examined. Work is continuing.” Keith is the only one of Brady and Hindley’s four victims buried on the moor not to have been found. He vanished on June 16, 1964 in Manchester.
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