The tape that could lead to Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett

Explosive taped evidence which could lead to the desolate final resting place of undiscovered Moors Murder victim Keith Bennett has been released to The Sunday Post.

Keith’s brother Alan interviewed a close relative of Myra Hindley as part of his search for the lonely grave.

Now Alan is going public with an audio tape of an hour-long interview he conducted with Hindley’s brother-in-law David Smith chief prosecution witness at the killers’ 1966 trial in the hope its contents will now be acted upon by police.

He passed a dossier, including the tape, to police two years ago and is furious a review of the search area in it has never been carried out.

Alan who now wants access to police case notes so he can conduct his own review of the evidence said: “The passing of years does not ease the pain of our loss, but being able to lay Keith to rest with his mother would bring us some measure of peace at least.”

It is 50 years since Keith, 12, was snatched and killed by Glasgow-born Ian Brady and Myra Hindley as he walked to his grandmother’s home. They buried his body on Saddleworth Moor on the outskirts of Manchester but it has never been found.

In the tape, Smith who knew the warped lovers well and spent time before their horror crimes emerged makes claims:

How Brady would sit, silently staring at a specific, favoured part of Saddleworth Moor where David believed the pair buried Keith.

That a search of the area identified by Brady and Hindley independently of each other will finally yield its grim secret.

That prior to his death in 2012 he was prepared to take police on a new hunt for Keith’s remains.

Alan passed a transcript of the tape to detectives, along with notes on photographs and maps and a video of where David said tragic Keith was buried. But police failed to act on the “detailed new evidence”, he claims.

The 59-year-old added: “They have never shown any interest in the tape. It beggars belief.”

Alan has revealed he was also approached by a former “friend” of Brady’s who had been asked by the child murderer to take photographs of the moor.

Incredibly the photos he took were taken at the same spot Brady, 76, liked to sit and where David believes the body was dumped.

Martin Bottomley, head of the cold case review unit for GMP, last night said a “thorough assessment” was made of the interview transcript after it was passed to police in 2012.

“Because of that assessment, Mr Smith was not interviewed at that time,” he said. “All of these claims are investigated and it remains our aim to find Keith for the sake of his surviving family members.”