Moors Murder victim Pauline Reade is reburied with jawbone the police kept for 30 years
A private exhumation and reburial was carried out at 16-year-old Pauline Reade's grave in Gorton Cemetery, Manchester
THE first victim of the Moors Murders was today reburied with remains which have been kept by police officers for 30 years without the family's knowledge.
A private exhumation and reburial was carried out at 16-year-old Pauline Reade's grave in Gorton Cemetery, Manchester, placing her jawbone and hair samples with her remains.
It was a painful and emotional day for the familyJackie Reade, Pauline's 45-year-old niece, broke down in tears and hugged a relative at the private ceremony.
She was just 13 when she attended the first funeral at the same plot.
She told the "The last year has been the worst time of my life. I just want to put Pauline, finally at rest.
"We thought she was, then found out the awful truth. Having to do this has brought all the pain and emotion back."
Pauline's niece is seen in tears today at the cemetery
Pauline's body was discovered on Saddleworth Moor, in Oldham, in 1987 after Ian Brady and Myra Hindley admitted the 1963 killing.
A Greater Manchester Police statement said: "Pauline and the other Moors Murders victims are ever present in our minds and Greater Manchester Police will always do everything we can to support their relatives and honour their memory."
Last year the police apologised to the family after it emerged Reade's remains were kept without their knowledge.
The remains had been stored at the University of Leeds.
Twisted Ian Brady seen after his arrest
THE MOORS MURDERS: Who were the victims and how did they die?
On July 12, 1963, Brady told Hindley he wanted to "commit his perfect murder".
He told her to drive a van around the local area while he followed on his motorbike.
After spotting Pauline Reade, 16, the couple stopped and Hindley asked her if she would help her locate an expensive glove she had lost on the Moor.
Hindley claimed Brady then took Pauline on to the Moor, where he slashed her throat twice and sexually assaulted her. Brady claims that Hindley helped.
On November 23, 1963, Hindley approached John Kilbride in Ashton-under-Lyne and offered him a lift home.
Brady told the 12-year-old he would give him some sherry, but they would have to make a detour on the Moor first.
He sexually assaulted the youngster and attempted to slit his throat with a six-inch serrated blade before fatally strangling him with a piece of string.
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.
In search of another victim, the couple visited a fairground on Boxing Day, 1964, and came across Lesley Ann Downey.
They approached the 10-year-old and lured her back to their house, where she was undressed, gagged and forced to pose for photographs before being raped and killed.
The following morning Brady and Hindley drove with Downey's body to Saddleworth Moor, where she was buried, naked with her clothes at her feet, in a shallow grave.
On 6 October 1965 Brady met 17-year-old apprentice engineer Edward Evans at Manchester Central railway station and invited him to his home where Brady beat him to death with an axe.
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Reade's family were last month reunited with her long-lost belongings 55 years after she was snatched by Brady and Hindley.
Police contacted the family’s lawyer to reveal they were ready to return the white stilettos the teen was wearing when she was abducted by the killers in 1963.
Detectives also returned a metal chain belt, a piece of material from her dress, a safety pin, six buttons and a press stud.
Following the death of 79-year-old Brady last year, officers decided the time was right to return her items.