It’s not the worst, Alan Bennett’s view of new C4 docu on Brady and Hindley

A Channel 4 documentary on the Moors Murders has brought hack the horror of the worst crimes in the 1960s.

Moors Murders: The Witness has given viewers an in-depth view at the serial murders by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. They lured, tortured and killed five children before they were eventually caught and jailed for life.

Alan Bennett, the brother of victim Keith, whose body has never been found gives his own view of the programme.

About the latest documentary, I have seen worse to be totally honest.

The main saving grace was David Smith’s honest and open account of events and the fact that Hindley eventually admitted she had lied about his involvement in the murder of Edward Evans.

Brady, not surprisingly, continued with his lies.

I was very saddened to see the photos of Edward’s body again, there was really no need or excuse for those to be shown.

I picked up on a few things that were not factual but were spoken as if they were indeed facts, that always gets to me.

I have spoken to or communicated with just about every leading person connected with the case and search for Keith and Pauline since 1985, including Brady and Hindley.

I have double checked all I have been told as much as I possibly could and taken matters further if at all possible.

I have also come across some of the weirdest people I have ever met and hoped to never have contact with them again.

I have also had the misfortune to be contacted by some of the most bitter, twisted and evil minded individuals with their theories and lies. Worst of all with their twisted ideas of what they believed actually happened to the victims, which I found to be absolutely vile and sickening and could only have been the work of a very sick minded and wicked person/persons, as if what really happened was not bad enough for them.

We can only deal in facts as they are known and can be confirmed, apart from that we have to also deal with what we believe to be possible or probable, without adding or making up things that do not have the remotest connection to what we know to be true.

I think I’m starting to ramble on here and going off track about the documentary.

So, thank you for caring about Keith and all the other victims and thank you for all your best wishes for me personally.

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