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wadey · 01-06-2011, 20:36

14/01/05 BBC Staffordshire
Murder anniversary Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the kidnap of the Wolverhampton student who was heir to the Whittle Coach Company. Seventeen year-old Lesley Whittle, a student at Wulfrun College was abducted from her family home in Shropshire, and Donald Nielsen, known as the Black Panther, left a note demanding a £50,000 ransom for her return. After a series of police blunders and failed ransom drops, Lesley's body was eventually discovered 52 days later in a drain shaft in Bathpool Park, Kidsgrove, in Staffordshire. She died hanging by a steel wire round her neck. Nielsen was caught later that year and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1976.

01-06-2011, 20:36	#4
wadey Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,877 Liked: 26 times Rep Power: 3768	Re: Black Panther 14/01/05 BBC Staffordshire Murder anniversary Today is the thirtieth anniversary of the kidnap of the Wolverhampton student who was heir to the Whittle Coach Company. Seventeen year-old Lesley Whittle, a student at Wulfrun College was abducted from her family home in Shropshire, and Donald Nielsen, known as the Black Panther, left a note demanding a £50,000 ransom for her return. After a series of police blunders and failed ransom drops, Lesley's body was eventually discovered 52 days later in a drain shaft in Bathpool Park, Kidsgrove, in Staffordshire. She died hanging by a steel wire round her neck. Nielsen was caught later that year and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1976.