Quote:
Originally Posted by wadey
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.
|
I remember that day back in 74 when Nielsen murder the sub postmaster Derek Astin up Bash, I was working for Arnold Riley Bar fitters at the time who's workshop was behind the Victory Pub in Manny Road, I have never seen so many policemen in one place a one time before or since, every vehicle entering or leaving Manny road was stopped and its occupants questioned, I remember after he was eventually caught, every police officer who worked on the case received a black panther tie, think there was about 350 made at the time