Brady 'Reveals Location Of Body'

[evervigilant]

Moors murderer Ian Brady has revealed details about where one of his victims, 12-year-old Keith Bennett, is buried, police believe.

Greater Manchester Police said in a statement that Brady had recently given details of the location of the body to one of his long-term visitors.

The force added that a 49-year-old woman has been arrested in south Wales on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful exercise and remains in police custody for questioning.

Didn't see this posted.

[Dakota Valkyrie]

Decades after the crime, police are investigating what could be a clue to the burial place of the last unrecovered victim of one of Britain's most notorious killers, "Moors Murderer" Ian Brady.

Keith Bennett was just 12 years old when he went missing on June 16, 1964, in northern England on his way to visit his grandmother.

Brady, who was jailed for life in 1966 for three other child murders committed with the help of his partner Myra Hindley, admitted killing the boy in 1987 but has never disclosed the whereabouts of his body.

The other four victims were buried on Saddleworth Moor, a lonely upland expanse in the Pennine hills, near Manchester.

Keith's mother, Winnie Johnson, has spent the decades since he vanished searching for her lost son but is herself gravely ill.

Now, police are investigating claims that Brady may recently have given details of the burial spot to one of his longtime visitors, in a sealed letter to be passed to Johnson after Brady's death.

The information came to light when a documentary filmmaker interviewed a woman who has been acting as Brady's mental health adviser, the Press Association news agency reported.

A 49-year-old woman was arrested in South Wales on Thursday on suspicion of preventing the burial of a body without lawful exercise, and has been released on bail pending further inquiries, a Greater Manchester Police statement said.

Documents have also been seized from the address and are being examined, police said.

In the statement, Martin Bottomley, head of the force's cold case review team, cautioned against leaping to conclusions but said police were taking the lead seriously.

"I want to be explicitly clear about this: Ian Brady has not revealed to police the location of Keith's body," he said.

"What we are looking at is the possibility, and at this stage it is only a possibility, that he has written a letter to Keith's mum Winnie Johnson which was not to be opened until after his death. We do not know if this is true or simply a ruse, but we clearly have a duty to investigate such information on behalf of Keith's family.
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Police have been in contact with Keith Bennett's family and staff at Ashworth Hospital, the high-security psychiatric institution where Brady is held.

He has refused food for the past 12 years, in a bid to die, and is fed through a tube, the Press Association reports.
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http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/17/world/...e-murder-body/

[Valasca]

Huh. NOW he has a conscience?

[Abroad]

Now, police are investigating claims that Brady may recently have given details of the burial spot to one of his longtime visitors, in a sealed letter to be passed to Johnson after Brady's death.

Have they considered the possibility that the mutants final message to the gieving mother will be something along the lines of: "Pity me. I sat crooked on the potty when I was a child. As for your son, I was too drunk out of my head when I killed him to remember where the Hell I buried him. Sorry."

That said, of course they have to try. I cannot imagine the mother's pain.

[evervigilant]

Keith Bennett's mummy died on Friday night, she was 78. She had never given up hope of finding his body, it's really fucking sad.

[Abroad]

I hope they find him so they can at least put him to rest near her.

[Abroad]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...ester-21415723

Moors murderer Ian Brady's mental health advocate will not face charges over allegations she failed to disclose information about the location of one of his victims' remains.

Jackie Powell was arrested last year on suspicion of preventing the lawful burial of Brady's victim Keith Bennett.

The Crown Prosecution Service said no action would be taken against Ms Powell, of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire.

Basically, they don't know what was in the letter, and they cannot find out, because they cannot find it.

Martin Bottomley, head of investigative review in Greater Manchester Police's major and cold case crime unit, said: "As soon as we were made aware of the existence of this alleged letter, we made exhaustive attempts to obtain it to establish whether or not its contents would assist us in finding Keith's body.

"That resulted in the warrants we carried out in the South Wales area and at Ashworth Hospital in August 2012.

"However, despite seizing numerous documents and a search of Brady's cell, no such letter has been recovered."

He said the letter may have been destroyed, hidden elsewhere, or it may have been handed to someone else.

"It may simply never have existed in the first place and this has been yet more mind games by Brady," he said.