Image credit: Chris Cook

A previously unseen photo of one of the Moors Murderers just outside Leek could help to reveal more information about their horrific crimes decades after they took place.

Ian Brady and Myra Hindley - who have since become known as the Moors Murderers - killed five children between 1963 and 1965.

They buried they bodies on Saddleworth Moor in the Peak District, and one of the bodies - that of 12-year-old Keith Bennett, has still not been found.

Now author Chris Cook has published a new set of images of the Moors Murderers that have previously never been seen by the general public. Chris got the Home Office to release the images under the Freedom of Information Act, and has published them in his new book, called The Moors Murderers.

The images were taken by the Hindleys between 1950 and the year of their arrest in 1965, with many of them showing the pair in various locations around the British countryside.

Shockingly one of the images of Myra Hindley - the one at the top of this article - is believed to have been taken at the Serpent Stone near Ramshaw Rocks in Leek. It is unknown which year the image was taken.

The images were part of an album taken by the Moors Murderers which became known as the Tartan album, and it is hoped that they could help to reveal more information about where Keith Bennett's body was buried.

The Hindleys never disclosed the location of the body, even after spending decades in prison for their horrific crimes. Myra Hindley died in 2002 and Brady died in 2017 after becoming Britain's longest serving prisoner, spending 55 years behind bars.

The photographs have proved helpful to the police in the past, due to the Hindleys' habit of posing near the burial locations of their victims.

Two of the bodies - those of Lesley Ann Downey (10) and John Kilbride (12) - were recovered in 1965, and the body of Pauline Reade (16) was finally recovered in 1987.

By releasing the images to the public as part of his book, Chris Cook is hoping that it may help to reveal the location of the final body.

It can be bought from Pen and Sword Books here.