Geoff Knupfer

Yeah, sure.

My name's Geoff Nutfer.

I was a police officer in Greater Manchester area and also worked in London and elsewhere.

Really, the reason I'm here today is because I got involved in reinvestigating the Moors murders in the 1980s.

Brady and Hindley committed these appalling murders with young children, the victims were young children, in the 1960s and they were both sentenced to life imprisonment.

The case was reopened in the 1980s because there were two missing children still unaccounted for.

In 2004 I got a call from the Department of Justice in Dublin asking if I'd come over and talk to them about the Commission for the Disappeared.

I was aware of it but I didn't know a great deal about it.

I came over and then in 2005 I was requested by the Irish government and the Northern Ireland UK government to undertake a review of what had happened since the Good Friday Agreement.

and see what opportunities were still remaining to do some work.

I think the most important aspect of all this is that, you know, this is a humanitarian process and not a criminal investigation process, albeit most of us were ex-detectives and bizarrely from the other side of the water.

And it seemed strange that we should be coming in to do this work.

But I remember people saying, well, you're coming over and doing this.

You don't come with any baggage.

You know, so they they kind of got on with us because we were outsiders, I suppose.

And they knew that we weren't aligned to any factions, any political organizations or anything else.

So we were outsiders and it worked very well.

Well, oddly enough, not really.

When I left school, left college, I joined the family business, which was watchmakers and jewellers.

My dad was a watchmaker and very well respected within the profession.