British police find the body of a child killed 58 years ago

British police are on the verge of a major and dangerous discovery as they prepare to find the body of a child they have been searching for for more than 58 years.

The 12-year-old Keith Bennett was murdered by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley and is the only victim of them whose body has not been found despite the passage of all these decades, and the criminals did not reveal the whereabouts of their victim.

But Greater Manchester Police recently set out to exhume remains from Saddleworth Moor, after reports of a skull matching Keith's description, and it is believed they also found the child's upper jaw and a full set of teeth.

Forensic anthropologists began examining potential body samples from tissue last Thursday, hoping to extract DNA that could eventually solve the case.

Alan Bennett, Keith's brother, took to social media last night to say: "Everything should be clear and final sometime tomorrow."

Between July 1963 and October 1965, Mira Hindley and her partner, Ian Brady, murdered five young men, Hindley died in 2002 and Brady in 2017 without revealing Bennett's whereabouts.

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