Keith’s final journey to gran’s house passed the street where evil Brady lived

Spare a thought for my lost brother, asks Alan Bennett

Alan wrote: On this day, June 16th, in 1964, four days after Keith’s twelfth birthday, he was going to spend the night at our gran’s house… my mother was going to bingo and she walked with Keith to the zebra crossing at busy Stockport Road.

Once he had crossed and they waved goodbye to each other, they went on their way, Keith was only a few streets away from the safety of gran’s house.

He would have passed a small side street that led through to Westmoreland Street where Brady lived. It is now known that Hindley used to park in that street waiting for Brady to join her.

Somewhere along the familiar route Keith took, the vehicle with both Brady and Hindley inside pulled up alongside Keith. Keith was enticed into the vehicle and then driven to Saddleworth Moor, where Keith was sexually assaulted, murdered and buried.

It is, and always will be, very hard to accept that later that same night the rest of us slept safe and sound in our beds. It was not until the following morning that we all discovered Keith had disappeared. When my gran got to my mother’s house the following morning I heard the question ‘Where is Keith?’

Neither my gran nor my mother had a telephone at home, my mother thought Keith had arrived at my gran’s, my gran thought that Keith had changed his mind and had decided to stay at home.

I will never forget the confusion of that morning that quickly turned to panic and terror.

Please, once again, can I ask you spare a thought of remembrance for Keith today.

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