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 ...
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.
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 ...