Donations fund new hunt for Moors victim

Keith Bennett was snatched by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley in 1964 as he was making his way to his grandmother's house in Longsight near Manchester.

Police abandoned the hunt for the body last year and the investigation is now classed as "dormant".

The new search will be funded by private donations and is being carried out by volunteers who began examining Saddleworth Moor on Saturday and continued at a new location near the village of Greenfield yesterday.

David Jones, director of the International Rescue Training Centre in Wales, who is leading the search, said: "It's a large area. If we were to work this area as we do, this could be a 12-month search on just this one area. If we're looking at all the sites we've been given, we could be here for months, years."

There are 19 potential sites around Saddleworth Moor earmarked for the team to search.

Keith's mother Winnie, now 76, was on site as the search began.