We must never forget these victims or turn our backs on their memories
Fifty eight years ago John Kilbride lost his life at the evil hands of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. He was 12 years old.
John was the eldest child of Sheila and Patrick … can never imagine the horror that John went through at the hands of those twisted evil perverts who out-lived him by decades and earned the notoriety of shame.
John was buried beneath the howling winds and curtains of rain which dominate Saddleworth Moor, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester.
John had been sexually abused and strangled by Britain’s most reviled child killers, Brady and Hindley, forever known as the Moors Murderers..
He now rests in Hurst Cemetery, Ashton-under-Lyne, less than ten miles away from the isolated spot where he died. Many times his surviving family, Patrick, Terry, Sheila and Maria, visited his grave.
On November 23, 1963, John, who was 12, was earning pocket money packing up stalls at Ashton market.
He was approached by Hindley who persuaded him to put boxes into her car and offered him a lift home. Brady was driving.
They asked the child if he would help them find a lost glove on the Moors.
A photograph Brady took of Hindley and her pet dog at John’s grave led police to the spot two years later.
Today we remember his body being brought down from his lonely howling grave.
Alan Bennett, the brother of victim Keith Bennett said: “Remembering John Kilbride today. John’s body was recovered from Saddleworth Moor on this date in 1965. Also sending love to all of John’s family.”
The evil couple’s other victims are Pauline Reade, John Kilbride, Keith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey and Edward Evans.
RIP each one of you.
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Susan Turner
Rest in Peace ,John. You were the same age as me
Jennifer Ann Rutter
Bless him and all the other children xxx
Mary Davies
RIP all , there are no words
Still heart wrenching to this day. R.I.P
Those poor kids dying at the hands of those evil bastards. Those children are my peers
God bless you john i was only little when the moors murders took place but i remember them its in my prayers they find little keith god love him xxx🙏🙏🙏
Life stolen, at rest now John.
What a tragedy. All those kids who were killed by such awful individuals.
so sorry for everyones Loss my you all rest! Ginny Ross