Fifty years on from the abduction of Lesley Whittle, Mark Andrews looks back on the crime that shocked the West Midlands ...
It's exactly half a century to the day that Lesley was taken at gunpoint by the so-called Black Panther and left to die 54ft underground in a North Staffordshire park ...
The horror of the kidnap and murder of a 17-year-old girl has been recalled 50 years on by people who lived through it.
Donald Neilson pictured after his arrest Neilson had tethered Lesley by a noose in a drainage shaft beneath a Staffordshire park, and it was there where her body would be found following a botched ...
AN HEIRESS was forced into a 54ft mine and starved by her serial killer before she plummeted to her death in a chilling ...
Serial killer Donald Neilson - nicknamed the Black Panther - grabbed the terrified 17-year-old from her bed exactly 50 years ago on January 14, 1975 before her body was eventually found in ...
Lesley Whittle, who lived in Highley, Shropshire, was killed in Staffordshire by Donald Neilson, a serial killer known as the Black Panther, who was given four life sentences for four murders in 1976.