Human remains found on Saddleworth Moor

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Human remains, believed to be part of a child’s skull have been found on Saddleworth Moor. Please god let this be Keith Bennett. That poor child can hopefully finally be laid to rest in eternal peace with his mother.

Horrid this has got into the media.

I won't make any assumptions until the Police have had time for detailed forensic examinations.

Obviously I hope that they have found Keith, for his families sake, it must be a terrible thing to live with. They need that closure.

I have a bad feeling about this author though. We don't know Keith has been found yet and he's spouting it like it's all done and dusted.

I am not particularly soft hearted or lachrymose but I did have a few tears. I'm very nearly 60 and Keith has been missing for almost my entire life. Winnie was a known figure because of her brave, unceasing efforts to find him and she enlisted publicity in doing that, for obvious reasons.

The whole situation for that family has been utterly tragic for over half a century and yes, I do pray that this is real and they have finally found him and he can be buried properly, with his mother. No competition with anyone and any tears are not for myself but because it was and is such a terrible thing.

If these do turn out to be Keith Bennetts’ remains, it’s so very sad that the discovery didn’t come in time for his mother to be able to bring him home and maybe find whatever peace she could from finally laying him properly to rest. I do hope this doesn’t become a media circus, Keith’s remains should be treated with sensitivity and dignity, and respect for remaining members of his family. Rest in peace Keith and Winnie.

Omg.

Twitter is a disgrace isn't it?

Such congratulatory posts.

The BBC television news have just said it's a skull fragment and not yet confirmed as human. That really doesn't sound as hopeful as the earlier reports.

BBC are still reporting on it and no mention of a hoax?

I'd like to think that the awful, self-congratulatory author who led the police to the site, knows a little of what he found. Twat as he is, I'm hoping that he found more than a small fragment of a skull that may or may not be human, in order to blow his trumpet as loudly as he has....

I was just about to say this. The only confirmation of it being a hoax id the screenshot above but it's still being reported and the police haven't said otherwise?

Someone on another site today tried to minimise what the moors murderers did, by saying that similar things have happened to teenagers in London since that time. I’m old enough to remember the whole thing and although there have been some terrible cases since, and I don’t wish to minimise what the victims and their families must have been through, I don’t think there has been anything that’s provoked such a visceral public reaction as the moors murders. The nature of the murders - torture, sexual abuse and the gratification that those two monsters got from what they did, and the fact that they recorded the agony and fear the children suffered for later ‘enjoyment’ was hideous. And the refusal to disclose the whereabouts of the remains was chilling - calculated to cause the maximum distress, as evidenced by Winnie Johnson’s plight. I really hope they’ve found Keith, and he can finally rest in peace. I also hope Brady and Hindley are toasting in hell.

I'm not sure I can see any wallowing but all the 'I'm in tears here' posts and another 'sobbing my heart out', can make people come across that way I guess.

I guess the brutal rape and murder of a child (whose body has never been found or death officially confirmed) does make some people tearful.

Exactly

When I saw the feed I just hoped he had been found so the family could bury him and close this nightmare. So truly tragic and i feel for his poor mum who died never finding him although i hope if there is an afterlife they are together

I hope this is Keith and he can finally be laid to rest . God bless him .

Out of interest, how do you find tweets, Ive tried searching for keith bennett author russell but cant find the authors tweets?

The authors tag is @rippertourldn

Definitely and he funded a lot of the ground scans and searches himself.
Desperately hoping its Keith, he needs a proper burial and to be moved away from where that monster left him.

@bellac11

twitter.com/rippertourldn/status/1575834554232872961

Thank you

I think it's awful that certain people on here think people are 'wallowing' in these comments, for god's sake a 12 year old boy has been alone and disposed of on those eerie desolate Moors for decades, it has effected me as a parent as at the time it happened it could have easily been anybody's child. It's called empathy why people are tearful and deeply moved by the news today. I can't even begin to imagine what the victims families have been through and I hope none of us ever have to find out.

Exactly. I wonder how old those passing comment are?

Exactly - and this is something so heartbreaking that of course people are going to comment on it. It feels personal to every caring person who knows the whole tragic story. I'll bet that almost everyone on here has wept with relief that the body has (hopefully) been found and with sympathy for Keith's family - because whatever the outcome of the tests carried out on the remains, this has been agonisingly painful for them

ou would have to have a heart of stone not to be moved by it.

I do think that whatever was found was definitely human remains, I grew up close to Saddleworth moors and the amount of people who called the police after finding bones was astounding, they all turned out to be the bones of animals, yet I've never seen a police response like this before.

I dearly hope it is Keith, so he can be laid to rest with his beloved mum.

Caught a snippet of this on the radio in town... I sincerely hope it is Keith's remains, bless that poor little boy and his mum.

Hopefully they are reunited in 'Spirit'.

Why? I net there's loads of bodies buried up the moors