Cops secretly kept Brady victim’s body parts for 30 years
MOORS MURDERS OUTRAGE
PARTS of Moors Murder victim Pauline Reade’s body were stashed by police for 30 years without her family knowing.
They came to light after killer Ian Brady’s death in May. Pauline’s niece Jackie Reade said: “I am disgusted part of her was kept like this.”
WHEN Pauline Reade’s family finally laid her to rest, 24 years after she fell victim to the Moors Murderers, they felt they had some closure.
But the discovery that police have kept parts of her body since that moment in 1987 has sparked fresh heartache.
And now they face another four gruelling funerals as they prepare to exhume Pauline, her parents Amos and Joan, and her brother Paul to enable them to bury the jawbone and hair of the 16-year-old with her other remains.
The parts were discovered at Leeds University in a police audit after the death of evil murderer Ian Brady in May.
Pauline’s niece Jackie Reade, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, was told about it in a police phone call in August.
She told the Manchester Evening News: “They said they had ‘stumbled’ across some stuff. I thought it would be Pauline’s gold necklace.
ANGRY
“It was a piece of her jawbone. I couldn’t believe it. It was heartbreaking. We thought she was all there together.
“It should not have been separated. This family has been through enough. It brought it all back. I feel angry.”
Jackie, 44, was not born when Pauline disappeared in July 1963 but was 13 when she was found on Saddleworth Moor. She will now have to apply for four licences to rebury her relatives, all in the same family plot at Gorton.
Her solicitor Peter Hall said: “There has been no explanation or apology from police.” Greater Manchester Police said: “We recently became aware that human tissue belonging to Pauline Reade had been stored in external premises on behalf of GMP. The samples had been kept for investigative purposes.
“We contacted Pauline’s family to make arrangements so the samples could be laid to rest.
“This is a deeply sensitive matter and understandably it has caused some upset with the family.
“However, we felt contacting them was the right thing to do and we have given them a number of options, all of which GMP will pay for.”