The brother of a victim of the Moor Murderer Ian Brady has issued a plea for a solicitor to reveal the contents of two briefcases the killer left behind after his death.<\/p>\n
Alan Bennett whose brother Keith was never found said Ian Brady’s solicitor has the combination locked cases containing personal papers. Mr\u00a0Bennett alleges Robin Makin has refused his “personal plea” to reveal the papers, as well as police requests. Mr Bennett believes Brady may have revealed clues about precisely where on Saddleworth Moor his brother is buried.<\/p>\n
He said that Brady had written to him many years ago and said he had left instructions for him in his will.\u00a0He said the solicitor had “met with members of the Greater Manchester Police cold case team” but did not let them access the cases and then “ignored pleas from the solicitor acting on my behalf and, lately, a personal plea from myself”.<\/p>\n
Keith Bennett’s mother Winnie Johnson died in 2012 aged 78 after a long campaign to find her son and to give him a Christian Burial.<\/p>\n
After Ian Brady’s death in 2017 Greater Manchester Police applied for a court order to examine the contents which was denied as there was no longer any prospect of an investigation to a prosecution.<\/p>\n
A Greater Manchester Police spokeswoman said:<\/strong> “We do not confirm whether specific pieces of evidence or potential evidence forms part of active lines of enquiry.”<\/p>\n Martin Bottomley, head of GMP’s cold case unit, said that officers would continue to “pursue all investigative lines of enquiry” to find Keith’s body, and would never close the case.<\/p>\n Ian Brady murdered five children between 1963 and 1965 with his partner Myra Hindley. Brady died in May 2017 in a secure psychiatric unit at Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The brother of a victim of the Moor Murderer Ian Brady has issued a plea for a solicitor to reveal the contents of two briefcases the killer left behind after his death. Alan Bennett whose brother Keith was never found said Ian Brady’s solicitor has the combination locked cases containing personal papers. Mr\u00a0Bennett alleges Robin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[786,787],"class_list":["post-11479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk-news","tag-ian-brady","tag-myra-hindley"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11482,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11479\/revisions\/11482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}