Suitcases could hold clue to Moors grave – but police aren’t allowed in them

THE brother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett could take legal action against Ian Brady’s solicitor in a final attempt to discover where his remains are buried.

Brady refused to divulge where he and Myra Hindley dumped 12-year-old Keith’s body after abducting him as he walked to his grandmother’s house in 1964.

After the killer’s death aged 79 in 2017, it emerged that two locked briefcases containing his personal documents had been passed to his lawyer, Robin Makin, who is also his executor.

Brady was said to have carried one of them around with him at Ashworth high security mental hospital in Merseyside.

Keith’s brother Alan hopes they could contain ‘crucial information’ to pinpoint

Mystery: Keith Bennett and Brady the grave on Saddleworth Moor. Mr Makin refused to hand them over and detectives were denied a search warrant on the grounds that no one could be prosecuted over Keith’s death.

However, Alan Bennett’s solicitor John Ainley said: ‘We’re looking into the possibility of a court application that would waive the privilege attached to these documents … if it could be shown that they were in some way fundamental to Keith’s body being found.’

Mr Bennett, 62, told the Liverpool Echo: ‘If there’s something in those suitcases, we need to know.’ Mr Makin did not respond to requests for comment.

Brady and his lover Hindley, who died in 2002, murdered five children between 1963 and 1965.