The heartbroken brother of Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett has issued a plea to find his body 56 years after he was murdered by Scots serial killer Ian Brady.
The family have been searching for answers for decades as Keith's body has never been recovered after he was last seen on June 16, 1964.
His brother Alan has told of his final memories of his beloved sibling- and urged anyone with information on where his body is hidden to come forward.
He wrote on Facebook: "On this day, June 16th 1964, four days after his twelfth birthday, Keith was going to spend the night at our gran’s house, my mother was going to bingo and she walked with Keith to the zebra crossing at busy Stockport road.
"Keith would have passed a small side street (Dallas Street) that led through to Westmoreland Street where Brady lived. It is now known that Hindley used to park in that street waiting for Brady to join her.
"Somewhere along the very familiar route Keith took to Gran’s house, the vehicle with Hindley driving and Brady in the back pulled up alongside Keith.
"Keith was enticed into the vehicle by Hindley and later climbed into the back of the vehicle after being persuaded to do so by Brady. Hindley drove to Saddleworth Moor, where Keith was led into the moor, sexually assaulted, murdered and then buried."
He added that he lives with the pain of that day forever.
He said: "It is, and always will be, very hard to accept that later that night the rest of us slept safe and sound in our beds. It was not until the following morning that we all discovered Keith had disappeared. When my Gran got to my mother’s house the following morning, I heard the question ‘Where is Keith?’
"Neither my gran nor my mother had a telephone at home, my mother thought Keith had arrived at my Gran’s, my Gran had thought that Keith had changed his mind and had decided to stay at home.
"I will never forget the confusion of that morning that quickly turned to complete panic and terror.
"We grew up with the terror, thoughts and fears of that morning and it was to be over 20 years until we discovered, or rather had confirmed, that Keith had been a victim of Brady and Hindley. Something the police and us as a family had always thought to be the case."
In the post he includes a poster issued by police in Manchester at the time.
He wrote: "Below is a copy of the poster that was put up all over the area where we lived and the surrounding areas. Keith's imagine was all around us but Keith was nowhere to be seen in reality.
"Can I ask you to please, once again, spare a thought of remembrance for Keith today?
"Denied the life he should have lived and all he could have been."
Keith Bennett was one of five children and teenagers killed by the sadistic Brady and his partner Myra Hindley in the 1960s in the north of England in what has been dubbed as the 'Moors murders'.
The pair lured him into a car in Manchester and drove him off to Saddleworth Moor, to make Keith the third victim of the evil two.
Brady took the youngster on a walk on the moor- allegedly looking for a lost glove.
But when he returned, Hindley said Brady told her he had sexually assaulted Keith and strangled him to death with a piece of string.
Sick Brady never revealed the location of Keith's body, despite getting officers to even take him onto the moors again after he was jailed.
He died in 2017 taking the secret to his grave.
It wasn't until 20 years after the brutal slayings of other children and teenagers came out that it emerged Keith was one of the victims of the Moors Murderers.
At their trial, which last 14 days, the crimes horrified the nation. Hindley and Brady were both jailed for life and lived the rest of their lives behind bars.
But even as Brady, who breathed his last "agonising" breaths at Ashworth Hospital where he had been kept for years, died he played one final cruel trick on his innocent victims.
It is believed that Brady's final wish was for his cremated ashes to be scattered on the same moors where he had killed and buried his victims.
However, a judge ordered scattering his remains on Saddleworth Moors must be banned.
Brady died of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, a condition that affects the lungs.
He had been fed through a tube since he started a hunger strike in 1999 and it had been reported that he pulled the tube out a few days before he died.
Keith's mother, Winnie, died in 2012 without ever knowing where her son's final resting place was after a lifetime battling to find out.
