Remains police held added to casket
THE grave of the first Moors murder victim Pauline Reade was re-opened yesterday to allow her grieving family to bury her for a second time.
Pauline was just 16 when she was kidnapped and killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in July 1963.
The evil pair buried her on Saddleworth Moor, where her remains were finally found 24 years later.
Later, in 1987, her body was laid to rest in her local cemetery. But after Brady’s death last TWISTED Killer lovers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley year it was revealed police had kept some of her remains at Leeds University, including hair samples and her jawbone, together with the white shoes she was wearing when she was killed. The items were laid to rest with Pauline in a secret ceremony yesterday after her body was exhumed. Workmen with digging machinery arrived in the darkness at 5am to erect two black tents over the frozen ground at her grave in Gorton Cemetery, Gtr Manchester.
Three hours later, her aunt Jacqueline Reade, 45, arrived with a box in a red velvet bag containing the remains, a necklace, pendant, a button and piece of material from her coat.
They were handed to a funeral director and placed in Pauline’s casket, which was then re-buried.
Jacqueline, from Wythenshawe, who was just 13 when she attended her niece’s original funeral, later laid red roses on the grave.
She said: “This last year has been the worst time of my life. I just wanted to put Pauline finally at rest. Having to do this has brought all the pain and emotion back. I know Pauline will be at rest, but the answers that I want I can never get. Why they took her body parts and her clothing, and why they were kept for so long.”
Yesterday’s ceremony could only take place after Pauline’s mother Joan, father Amos, and brother Paul, who all died after her, were also exhumed from the family plot. The cost was met by the Greater Manchester Police.
Brady and Hindley went on to murder four more children after killing Pauline.
Pauline will be at rest but the answers I want I can never get
JACQUELINE READE MOORS VICTIM’S AUNT