Police spend sixth day searching Saddleworth Moor for remains of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett

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The brother of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett has spoken of his 'anger and pain' in an increasingly bitter row with an author who sparked a new police dig for the child's remains.

A week-long search for Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett was "not a waste of time" - despite it ending without any remains being found - a senior police officer has claimed.

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Police have escalated efforts to find the remains of Moors murder victim Keith Bennett as the search is poised to enter its sixth day - but as yet no bones have been found.

Police are considering widening their search for the remains of Moors Murders victim Keith Bennett. Officers started digging on Saddleworth Moor on Friday following information supplied by an amateur sleuth who has spent years looking for the child.

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Police are appealing for information to find a missing 13-year-old girl last seen two days ago. London Tuite was reported missing after being seen in the Cheadle area on Friday (September 30).

Officers are still to find any 'identifiable' human remains after spending a third consecutive day searching for Keith Bennett on Saddleworth Moor. Greater Manchester Police has been checking the area since Friday (September 30) after receiving information from an amateur sleuth.

A man has been arrested after a stabbing in Rossendale last week.

A drone has been sent up by police searching Saddleworth Moor for murder victim Keith Bennett following the reported discovery of what an author 'interpreted' as human remains.

Emergency services are at the scene after reports of a serious collision tonight said to involve a moped and a taxi. Transport bosses have confirmed Gorton Road has been closed as a result by police between Longford Road and Broadstone Road in Reddish, Stockport.

No human remains have yet been found in the latest moorland search for Keith Bennett, Greater Manchester Police (GMP) have confirmed. Police began searching an area of moorland near to Dove Stone Reservoir following an informant reporting that discoveries interpreted by experts to be bones had been located.

Years old, but still standing. In the face of the blasting wind and rain hammering the moors above Saddleworth, the enduring memorial to a little boy who lost his life at the hands of murderers - and the mum who never gave up hope of finding him.

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Moors Murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, are known to have killed five people in what is now Greater Manchester between July 1963 and October 1965.The news comes as police are digging on Saddlewoorth Moor for murder victim Keith Bennett after remains were found.READ MORE: Boy born with two faces due to 'Sonic the Hedgehog' gene defies odds and survivesThe possible remains were discovered by Russell Edwards, an author looking into the infamous killings that rocked the United Kingdom.Edwards has hypothesised that the Nazi-obsessed killer, who ­strangled his victims with string and buried them on Saddleworth Moor, could have been trying to create a Swastika with the burial sites.Greater Manchester Police have released an official statement detailing the situation but were quick to stress that nothing has been confirmed.As it stands, there is no confirmed connection between the find and the Moors Murderers and it was “ far too early to be certain whether human remains have been discovered”.However, the Mail reported that three independent experts have now identified remains at the site as being human, and probably 11 or 12-years-old according to dental analysis.

It could be one of the most significant breakthroughs to finding the body of the final Moors Murder victim, Keith Bennett.

When the newspapers printed details of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley's unspeakable cruelty disbelieving readers are said to have wept. And to this day the crimes the evil pair committed still haunt Manchester.

Almost 60 years ago, the entire nation was left shocked by the unthinkable and evil crimes of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.