A Sussex woman today paid tribute to the mother of Moors murder victim Pauline Reade who died yesterday.

Joan Reade, 72, died after falling into a coma.

Her granddaughter, Jeanette Hurst, 28, who lives in Crawley, said Mrs Reade had never recovered from her daughter's murder.

She said recent Press coverage of the murders had brought the tragedy back and made her grandmother ill again. Four days ago, Mrs Reade had a stroke and slipped into a coma.

Mrs Hurst said: "She was a beautiful woman but in the end the Press wouldn't leave her alone and she got sick again because all this was brought back up."

Mrs Reade had been in and out of hospital since her daughter vanished.

After the funeral in August 1987 she was haunted by grim memories of the past.

Mrs Hurst said her grandmother, to whom she was very close, was happy she had been able to finally lay Pauline's body to rest.

She said: "At the end of the day I keep thinking, she's with her daughter.

"She was so pleased that she got to lay her to rest and had somewhere to visit and was able to put flowers on her grave.

"But she never recovered from Pauline's death. Its taken its toll on all our family. Its been nothing but trauma after trauma."

Mrs Hurst's father Paul, Pauline's brother, is recovering after having a stroke just before Christmas.

Mrs Reade suffered ill health and had been in and out of hospital since her 16-year-old daughter vanished on July 12, 1963.

The teenager had been on the way from her home in Manchester to a youth club dance when she was lured into a car and killed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley.

They were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders of Lesley Ann Downey, ten, Edward Evans, 17 and John Kilbride, 12, in May 1966.

They only admitted to killing Pauline in 1987 and both were allowed out of prison briefly to help pinpoint the spot on Saddleworth Moors where her body was buried. It was eventually found at Hollin Brow Knoll.

She was still wearing the pink and gold party dress she was in when she set off for the dance.

Mrs Reade, whose husband Amos died five years ago, will be buried in Manchester.