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Reade

American  
[reed] / rid /

noun

  1. Charles, 1814–84, English novelist.


Reade British  
/ riːd /

noun

  1. Charles . 1814–84, English novelist: author of The Cloister and the Hearth (1861), a historical romance

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Joe Reade from the Mull Campus working group told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme that being forced to send children off the island to board for school is an "arcane" thing to do.

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Twenty-one years later, they also confessed to murdering Pauline Reade, 16, and Keith Bennett - crimes of which they had long been suspected.

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Reade's body was found on Saddleworth Moor in 1987, but Bennett has never been found.

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The autobiography contains a detailed description of where the murderers buried their first victim, Pauline Reade: "We counted the paces back to a rock on the knoll in order to be able to find the site and photograph it at a future date."

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The bodies of Lesley Ann Downey and, much later, Pauline Reade, were also found nearby.

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