mother of moors murder victim never stopped her fight to find her son's body and vowed to keep searching 'until the end of her days'

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Winnie Johnson, the mother of moors murder victim Keith Bennett never stopped her fight to find her son's body and vowed to keep on searching 'until the end of her days.'

But this morning, after a 48-year campaign, she tragically died in a Manchester hospice after battling cancer.
The last time Winnie Johnson saw her 12-year-old son Keith was when he waved goodbye as he walked to his grandmother’s house in Longsight, Manchester, on June 16, 1964.

But he was snatched off the street by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley – the third of their five known victims.

For 20 years, Mrs Johnson never knew what happened to her son until Brady and Hindley confessed to murdering him on Saddleworth Moor, Greater Manchester.
He is the only one of their five victims whose body has never been recovered.
Mrs Johnson, who was 78, made several thousand trips to the Moors in search of her son and has written to every prime minister since he disappeared, begging for help.
Recently, with her health failing, she refused to give up, employing private firms with sniffer dogs to try to locate Keith’s remains.
At the time she said: ‘I’ll never stop searching until he’s found. I’ll go on and on until I bring him home. When he’s found, I’ll know I’ve done my duty as a mother. I’ll be at ease then.’ 

 Desperate search: Winnie Johnson, digging with her 23 year old son Joey, on Saddleworth Moor near Manchester vowed to keep on searching 'until the end of her days'

Mrs Johnson, who was gravely ill in a hospice with terminal cancer, had written ‘hundreds’ of letters to Brady begging him to reveal where Keith’s body is buried before she died, including a heartfelt plea in December revealing the extent of her illness.

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