Mother wants to face Moors murderer

Judge Robert Atherton has granted permission for the hearing to be held in public but no date has yet been set.

Brady and his partner, Myra Hindley, were responsible for the murders of five youngsters in the 1960s. They lured children and teenagers to their deaths, with victims sexually tortured before being buried on Saddleworth Moor above Manchester.

The body of Keith Bennett, who was murdered after he was snatched by them on June 16, 1964, has never been found.

Mrs Johnson, 78, of Longsight, Manchester, has made repeated calls for Brady to reveal where he buried her son.

Brady has spent the last 25 years at the high-security Ashworth Hospital in Merseyside. He wants to be transferred to a Scottish prison and allowed to die.

Hindley died in jail in November 2002, aged 60.