Funeral for Moors murder victim's mother

The mother of a child victim of the Moors murderers was buried in Manchester on Thursday after she died without fulfilling her dearest wish of finding out where her son's body was hidden.

Friends and family of Winnie Johnson, whose son Keith Bennett was killed aged 12 in 1964, said goodbye in a service at the Manchester church where Keith attended Sunday school before his death.

Johnson died of cancer on August 18, aged 78, after almost five decades of campaigning and searching for Keith's resting place on Saddleworth Moor.

Her son was abducted and killed by Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who later confessed to the crime but never told her where on the moor they had hidden his body.

Canon Ian Gomersall, rector of St Chrysostom's church, told mourners he would not name at her funeral "the perpetrators of that evil".

"What I will do is pay tribute to this remarkable woman. I know my words of tribute will be shared by so many people," he said.

"I pay tribute to Winnie's courage and determination to bring her son back to her family. I pay tribute to Winnie and her family's resolve to give Keith a final resting place, which has been an inspiration to so many over the years, and we thank God for this encouraging example."

Family, friends and fellow members of Johnson's much-loved bingo club heard tributes to the former cleaner and hospital kitchen worker who was also mother to four other children.

Hindley died in prison in 2002 but Brady, 74, is still alive, despite being tube-fed for the past twelve years as he has been refusing food. He is fighting to be transferred to prison from a secure hospital and allowed to die.

Police revealed just a day before Johnson's death that they were investigating the possibility Brady had revealed Keith's burial place in a sealed letter handed to his mental health advocate.

But Johnson was too ill to be told, and died without knowing of the fresh investigation.

Between 1963 and 1965, Brady and Hindley lured five children and teenagers to their deaths, burying four of them on remote moorland near Manchester. All of the bodies apart from Keith's were found.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/funeral-moors-murder-victims-mother-150742986.html

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