The owner of the Saddleworth Moor land where police are digging in the search for Keith Bennett says he hopes he is found after promising his dying mother that he would never stop looking for him. Chris Crowther is hoping Greater Manchester Police's search is successful after being missing for nearly 60 years.
Schoolboy Keith was just 12-years-old when he was taken by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley as he walked to his grandmother's house for tea in June 1964. He was then murdered by Brady and buried in the moors. The pair never revealed where they had buried Keith, to the anguish of his mother Winnie.
Mr Crowther, 65, says he promised Keith's late mother that he would not give up on looking for him. This came when she visited him while ill with cancer shortly before her death in 2012, The Mirror reports.
