Moors Murders: Nearly five decades on...can a dying mother finally be allowed to rest?

 
- AUGUST 17, 2012: Moors Murderer Ian Brady, who was jailed in 1966 along with his accomplice and girlfriend Myra Hindley for the murder of three children, is believed by Police to have revealed the location of the body of 12 year old victim Keith Benett in documents released to his legal advocate Jackie Powell. Powell has now been arrested on suspicion of preventing the legal burial of a body. MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - JULY 01: Winnie Johnson, 83, the mother of Saddleworth Moor murder victim Twelve-year-old Keith Bennett, weeps as she watches TV coverage of Greater Manchester Police announcing that the search for his body is now entering a dormant phase on July 1, 2009 in Manchester, England. The 12-year-old was killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964. Greater Manchester Police said that intense scientific and manual searches of Saddleworth Moor for Keith have yielded no results and the operation has now entered a dormant stage until further evidence arises.
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The dying mother of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett recently made a final plea to Brady to reveal where he buried her boy.

Winnie Johnson, 79, who has bowel cancer, begged the killer to end her 47 years of torment.

Ms Johnson wrote a heartfelt letter to Brady in which she said: "If you have got it in your heart to tell me where Keith is, it would end the trouble I have had for 47 years.

"I would like him found and buried before anything happens to me."

She said of Brady: "With me being ill, it might touch him if he had a brain.

"I want to see Keith buried before I die. I can't stop fighting. It's my brain continually working all the time.

"I can never be free of it, no matter what I do."

With her health faltering, Ms Johnson made the emotional plea in July on Channel 4 documentary, Dear Mr Brady, in which she wrote to the child killer and tried to track down her 12-year-old son's resting place.

Keith was abducted on his way to visit his grandmother in Manchester.

Police abandoned the hunt for his body in 2009 and officers said they would need fresh evidence to resume the search.

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