UNLOCK BRADY’S CASE OF SECRETS Victim’s brother begs for help in open letter I must see if he left clues
MY brother Keith Bennett vanished more than 50 years ago but not a day goes by when I do not stop to think of him.
For more than five decades we have attempted to find out where he was buried after being abducted, tortured and murdered by Ian
Brady and Myra Hindley.
Now two combination-locked cases which Brady put in secure storage before he died could be our final hope.
His legal team have refused to help. The police are powerless despite appeals through the legal system.
So I’m making this plea:
Please let us see what’s inside those cases.
I remember the day –
June 17, 1964 – we discovered Keith was missing. I was eight when he disappeared on his way to our grandmother’s home.
We could never imagine the horrors he had suffered.
My mother Winnie Johnson repeatedly begged the killers to reveal what they did with Keith.
They refused. She died never knowing her son’s final resting place.
We have never been able to give him a proper burial. That is what drives me to keep going. I refuse to give up hope.
Over the past 55 years I have written hundreds of letters in the search for Keith. I even met Hindley twice in prison.
Before Brady’s death in 2017 he tried to deter me from continuing to search on the moor, which I refused. He said there would be personal instructions for me in his will. I took that to mean information regarding Keith.
Now it seems that may have been a cruel jibe intended to worsen our agony but I cannot be sure until every avenue has been covered.
His solicitor, Robin Makin, has refused to hand the papers over despite a personal plea from myself and letters from my solicitor. The police have been denied a search warrant.
So I am writing this to make yet another plea for compassion and decency. Please give us access to Brady’s files so we know if he left us clues about Keith’s final resting place.
We have never been told who are the executors of Brady’s will. I extend this plea to them – please help us if you can give us answers that will heal our pain. My family has suffered enough. All we want is to put Keith to rest.
AN open letter from the brother of a Moors murderers’ victim is piling pressure on the authorities to reveal killer Ian Brady’s secret
stash of papers.