MOORS murderer Myra Hindley "sobbed and hugged" Keith Bennett's brother before APOLOGISING when he confronted her in her jail cell, it was revealed.

Alan Bennett was eight years old when his 12-year-old brother was abducted and murdered by Hindley and her lover Ian Brady, but his body was never found.

Alan Bennett, now 62, revealed how his desperate hunt for the truth led him to visiting the killer in prison in 1998.

He believed Keith could be buried in Saddleworth Moor, West Yorks., where the murderers buried three of their five victims in 1964.

“The case had gone cold and I thought I would give it a go," Alan told The Guardian.

"I was on my own. I didn’t tell anybody. I didn’t even tell my mum."

Alan described how he waited nervously in the jail waiting room before a woman with dark hair and a trouser suit hobbled in with a stick.

She [Myra Hindley] started crying and put her arms round my side and said: ‘I am so sorry for the trouble I have caused and the pain I have caused over the years, and for being such a coward'

"She said: ‘Hello Alan,’ and I stood up and I looked her in the face.

"She started crying and put her arms round my side and said: ‘I am so sorry for the trouble I have caused and the pain I have caused over the years, and for being such a coward.’"

The twisted murderer "seemed genuinely upset", Bennett said, and claimed she had nothing to do with the killing.

'I NEVER LAID A FINGER ON HIM'

"I do want you to know that I never touched Keith, I never murdered him, but I am as guilty as Brady because I put him in the car," she told him, adding: "I knew what was going to happen to him, but I never laid a finger on him.

Hindley even showed her the inside of her jail cell, containing a picture of a waterfall that he felt could be connected to his brother's whereabouts.

She told him that Keith could be in the vicinity of Hoe Grain, which is near a layby off the A635 but quickly becomes hidden from the road.

Bennett was due to meet Hindley again with police but the appointment was cancelled for family reasons.

A few days later Hindley suffered a cerebral aneurysm and took six months to recover.

When she did, she refused to meet with Bennett again. She died several years later in 2002, without revealing the exact whereabouts.

Ian Brady died at the age of 79 in May 2017.

Who was Keith Bennett?

Keith Bennett, 12, was on his way to his grandmother’s house on June 16, 1964, when Hindley lured him into her van.

She drove to a lay-by on the Moor and Brady took the boy while Hindley kept watch.

Brady reappeared 30 minutes later having sexually assaulted and strangled Keith.

After he was transferred from prison to maximum-security hospital Ashworth in November 1985, Brady confessed to Keith's murder in an interview with reporters.

Keith's body has never been found.

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Despite the crushing disappointment, Bennett is determined not to give up his search.

He's part of a campaign to access two locked briefcases that could hold clues to Keith's whereabouts and has asked Greater Manchester Police to “show some compassion” and open them up.

“Over the years you think you’ve been down every avenue and you exhaust it, but then something else comes up,” he said.

“I feel like they [Brady and Hindley] have still got him, even though they are both dead. They took him away from us and we have got to get him back.”

Hindley claimed Brady raped her after quizzing her about accepting a lift from a workmate

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