Fifty years on from the abduction of Lesley Whittle, Mark Andrews looks back on the crime that shocked the West Midlands ...

Lesley Whittle from Highley near Bridgnorth, was Donald ... armed raids in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Accrington, Lancashire and Langley in the West Midlands. Dubbed the Black Panther, he struck ...

February 15, 1974: Neilson shot and killed sub-postmaster Donald Skepper, at his New Park post office in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. September 6, 1974: The Black Panther murdered Derek Astin in ...

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.

Far from being a prank, it was a carefully-planned operation by a ruthless stop-at-nothing crook and serial killer, who became dubbed the Black Panther by the media. Donald Neilson pictured ...

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 ... in armed raids in Harrogate, North Yorkshire ...

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 ... killed in ...