Plea to Moors murderer for son’s burial site

HEARTBROKEN Winnie Johnson broke down in tears yesterday as she begged Moors murderer Ian Brady to reveal to her the 45-year secret of where her son is buried.

The frail pensioner, 75, pleaded with the five-times child killer to help find Keith Bennett’s grave on Saddleworth Moor, after police announced they had called off the search and could do no more unless Brady revealed the location.

Keith, then aged just 12, was abducted and killed by Brady and Myra Hindley on June 16, 1964 in Manchester, while on his way to his grandmother’s house.

Johnson walked him part of the way and waved him goodbye — and never saw him again.

Appealing directly to the killer, Johnson said: “I’m pleading with him to get to me or the press or the police and tell me where Keith is, it is the last time it will be done.

“I appreciate what the police have done ... it is up to Brady now to do what he can for me to get Keith back.

“If I could speak to him now I would wring his bloody neck, but they will not let me see him.”

Johnson cried after photos of Hindley, then live pictures of Saddleworth Moor flashed up on TV screens where she was speaking at the police HQ in Greater Manchester.

Brady is being held in Ashworth High Security Hospital on Merseyside.