Greater Manchester's top cop insists officers were acting on 'credible' information during the fruitless search for Keith Bennett's remains last month. Police spent a week searching an area of Saddleworth Moor after an amateur sleuth claimed to have found a human jaw bone, near to Dovestone Reservoir.
Keith was one of the five victims of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, having been abducted and killed aged just 12 on June 16, 1964. Officers returned to the moors to find Keith on September 30, but on October 7 the search was brought to an end.
Speaking to BBC Radio Manchester this morning (November 1), Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Stephen Watson spoke of his team's determination to finally bring closure to Keith's family after almost six decades, and insisted the tip-off had not been 'crackpot'. Asked by presenter Eamonn O'Neal how 'draining on resource' the search had been, Chf Con Watson said: "Well it was an unwelcome distraction because it proved not to have any validity.
