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  • Well Neilson what goes around comes around so you suffered a slow and painful death, rot in hell!

  • Sadly, Lesley's appalling suffering has been ignored. The police and prosecution falsely maintained Neilson pushed her off the ledge. Neilson claimed she fell when he was there and was dead before he left her. He wasn't going to admit to a murder he hadn't done but he wasn't going to admit he abandoned her because it was too painful for him so he compressed her considerable suffering into a few seconds. How many murderers claim the victim was dead before they left? He left her alive.

  • If anyone is interested and would like to know a little more about Leslie I went to school with her for about 4 years in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It has been 35 years and it is only now that I can talk about my dear friend. This movie does not show the monster that killed her. His birth name was actually Donald Nappy and he is in prison (Thank goodness for the British Justice System) and has ALS (AKA Lou Gehrigs disease

  • @JuliaKane . I've followed this case for years-particularly as I'm from Staffordshire. Victims such as Lesley always become footnotes with all the attention focused on the criminal. You always wonder what she would have done with her life-had kids etc. Neilson should have hanged himself-I don't care what a model prisoner he was.

    What kind of person was Lesley-what are your abiding memories?

  • @MALCBAGGIE Leslie Whittle & I attended Holy Trinity Convent. I seem to remember that she left when she was about 10 years old. I do remember her well though as we were in the same class and also had ballet class together with Miss Brown. I remember that Leslie was very kind. A strange thing to say about a child so young but I had a real problem with some of the ballet positions. She was so patient even at that age and helped me. I still miss her and still shed a tear or two.

  • Thanks for that Julia-very interesting but sad too.

  • @JuliaKane

    Hello

    Interesting.. What was Lesley like?

  • where is the rest of this film of donald bloody neilson

    is neilson still on this earth?

  • where is the rest of this film of donald bloody neilson

  • Anyone wanting to know the truth about this case should read Harry Hawkes book The Capture of the Black Panther and Lantern Lecture by the writer and critic Adam Mars Jones. Hawkes attended every one of Neilson's court appearances as well as his appeal and travelled thousands of miles talking to people involved and carrying out meticulous research. Adam Mars-Jones is the son of William Mars-Jones the presiding judge at Neilson's trials and acted as the Judge's Marshall in the two trials.

  • Neilson was not there when Lesley died, he had fled on the night of the kidnap abandoning her. She had not eaten for a considerable time and had lost a lot of weight, weighing only 98lbs when found. Even if Neilson had not fed her for three days, and he did, there would not have been time for that. He did threaten death but Lesley had an affinity with his own daughter and he would never have been able to bring himself to kill her. The police helicopter and dogs were figments of his imagination.

  • Yeah, Bodaniel-he had never once been questioned by the police despite his hundreds of robberies. I think the money was important-but he got off on the planning. Neilson is almost unique in British crime.

    I also wonder what his wife (if she's still alive) and daughter are doing now. I always feel that his wife knew more than she let on-as she cashed stolen post office cheques.

  • @MALCBAGGIE Personally, I don't think Irene Neilson had any idea he might be the Panther. She did cash postal orders but on his instructions and even though she suspected criminal activity she would not have connected it to the Panther because it did not get into the papers as the police were trying to track him through it but were always a few days behind. She would not have suspected he was the Panther because the the media had created a very different character to the real man.

  • As a long term student of this case I didn't know that Lesley's stomach/intestines were empty. If the police had searched Bathpool she probably would have been found alive. Neilson probably gave up when Ron Whittle was late and probably just left-assuming the police would find her-and never went back down the shaft.

    Killing her would have made the hunt for him even more intense.

  • @MALCBAGGIE This was his first real contact with a police operation. Previously he had been long gone before they got involved. He described waiting for Ron Whittle as being in the ever tightening vice of a police trap. All his fears and phobias came to the fore and believing the police were closing in, he panicked and fled. Even if Ron Whittle had arrived on time and carried out his instructions to the letter I think Neilson would have lost his nerve and not collected the money .

  • @MALCBAGGIE The plan was to wait for ron whittle neilson said if any police were seen leslie would die. A panda car was seen patroling a nearby car park which made neilson panic return to the drain where many believe lesly fell to her death as neilson was raged. If the panda car had not patrolled the car park i believe leslie would be here today.

  • @JesusChristisfake

    Neilson pushing her cannot be discounted-no way though can we believe that he accidently 'knocked' her from the platform.

    Regarding the panda car-Neilson referred to it in his statement (which can be read in More Murders of the Black Museum)-saying he wasn't panicked by it as he'd only just rang the Whittles with details of the Kidsgrove drop. Booth makes a lot of the panda to get at Staffs police.

    Don't forget Neilson's claim of a police helicopter and dogs. A sure motive.

  • Did you meet him? Why is a charity donating stuff to this man?!

  • @JesusChristisfake He has Motor Neurone Disease. The charity is there to help people wth that condition and it would be wrong to pick and choose by raking over people's lives to check their worthiness - where would the parameters be? Also, the equipment provided will be of assistance to those caring for him. If someone is taken into custody by the state they are entitled to be taken care of whatever they have done however unpalatable that might be to some.

  • @Bodaniel7

    I was a school friend of the lass. He should have been hung for what he did.

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  • Just to be clear, Donald Neilson was NOT Scottish. He was born in Morley near Leeds in West Yorkshire. Dennis Nilsen murderer of fifteen young men in London was a Scot. The only connection with the Lesley Whittle case and the Mackay kidnapping is that Neilson read a book called Murder in the Fourth Estate which covered that case in detail. He used the book to learn from the police mistakes and refined the Hosein's ransom drop plan for his own ends.

  • @Bodaniel7 IS THIS ASSHOLE DEAD YET.?

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  • @jocksmen No, he's still alive in Norwich Prison. He's paralysed from the neck down, can only eat soft food , spoon fed by the staff and spends his time painting, holding the brush in his mouth. The Motor Neurone Disease took hold and advanced quickly but he's somehow holding on and surviving against all the odds - the doctors gave him just a few weeks eighteen months ago.

  • @jocksmen your v arsehole brian u pillow biter

  • @casper20096 whats that

  • @casper20096 sorry

    but do i know you.

    YOU FUCKTARD MUPPET.

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  • he was a bastard hanging leslie whittle with wire and he was scottish like me unfortunately i think leslie mustve been terrified.rot in prison.

  • @jimpurdie no he was a yorkshire man.

  • coolperson962, he chose the drainage shaft at Kidsgrove because he felt the bottom of the shaft was the perfect place to hold his victim. His other ideas, a boat moored in a disused canal tunnel or a soundproof room in a rented garage were abandoned when he found the shaft. He decided he could not buy a boat because he might be remembered and he did not know how to work out the amount of air needed to prevent someone suffocating in a soundproof room. The shaft had an ample supply of fresh air.

  • @Bodaniel7 He had an original plan to have the money thrown from a moving train the London to Manchester rail line runs through Bathpool Park,he found the underground drainage shaft by accident whilst checking out Bathpool after studying maps of the Midlands,he had looked at another site in Nuneaton Warwickshire previously,he had planned the kidnapping for 3 years.

  • @TheWolfie6 The police admitted the moving train plan was brilliant and they would have had great difficulty monitoring the whole line. He should have stuck with it. It's a pity he found Bathpool Park, he would have been better with his original plan to hold the victim on a boat in a disused canal tunnel. The difficulty with it was finding a boat he could not be connected with. He actually planned the kidnap for 2 not 3 years intending to do it in Jan 1974 but shelved it for one more year.

  • This film is inaccurate. When Donald Neilson took Lesley Whittle down the drainage shaft he made her climb down the ladder and go through the tunnels with the blindfold on. It was only removed when they reached the platform where he tethered her. Neilson did not kill Lesley. He abandoned her and fled when he thought the police were closing in. She was starving for a considerable time before falling off the ledge. Neilson had thought the police would search the shaft at first light that morning.

  • @Bodaniel7 how do you know all that.?

  • @jocksmen From his statements to the police, his evidence in court and his talks with a psychiatrist. Also, the pathologist who examined Lesley's body said her stomack and intestines were completely empty and she had not eaten for a considerable time. It is an insult to Lesley that people persist in thinking Neilson pushed her off the ledge. The reality was much worse. She was screaming for help in the pich black for days without food or water in that filthy rat fested shaft before falling.

  • @Bodaniel7 ok I did think that at the time I must admit.

    thanks.

  • i live in kidsgrove :D. the manhole is completly sealed off and has padlocks all over it. but yeh i thought i should comment cos i live in kidsgrove :D

  • if he was from bradford and shee was from shropshire why did he choose kidsgrove?

  • @coolperson962 Because he had a plan for the ransom money to be thrown from a moving train in an open area-he followed the London/Manchester railway line on a map and saw Bathpool. He then checked out Bathpool on foot and checked out the drainage system after hearing the rushing water. Kidsgrove was near the M6 motorway junction too-& was roughly halfway between Highley and Bradford.

  • no he was scottish

  • ididnt know vis was on you tube i lived 5 doors from him in thornbury bradford

  • @casper20096 AND HE WASN'T A PAKKI?

  • @jocksmen pakkis kidnapped and killed muriel mckay thinking she was rupert murdochs wife for ransom.

  • @jimpurdie ok so whats that got to do with this case.?

  • @jocksmen are you still a knob jockey brian lots of love from ryan

  • @casper20096 DUUUUR

    FUCKTARDED AINT CHA.

  • @jocksmen its me ryan "" how you doing brian are u still biting pillows bro

  • @casper20096 THIS IS NOT RYAN YOU

    MUPPET GO AWAY SILLY CHILD

  • Wikipedia said not so long ago that Donald Neilson died on September 24th of heart failure because of his MND. It seemed very specific to have been made up but it got taken off very quick, I wonder if he's dead but the press aren't releasing the news for some reason.

    The papers did say back in March that his condition had deteriorated rapidly and it surprised everyone, so who knows.

  • @UK31337 NO HE IS ALMOST 74

  • @UK31337 I think that when he finally dies the papers will all cover the strory,a contact at the prison will tell someone who in turn will tell the papers,you can't keep much from the press.If he had died on Sept 24 the papers would have known,his prison records will probably go to the National Archives at Kew,he spends 24/7 on his own in his wheelchair painting with a brush in his mouth.I wonder how Ron Whittle feels towards this scum,he will probably be cremated in a secret location.

  • @TheWolfie6 I'm sure he has already planned his funeral and disposal of his body with the great care and planning that characterizes everything else he has done. Detailed instructions will be with his lawyers. Everything will be done to protect his family. His skill at making sure they were protected after his arrest and during his trial was a text book example of how it should be done.

  • I live near Bathpool park,and every January someone puts Flowers near the place Lesley Died.I wonder Who He is?

  • so you have seen them?

     its definately a man?

    what sort of flowers?

  • Dark hair, 50ish.I don't know much about flowers,looks like a bunch you could buy from the local supermarket.Sometimes theres a note signed D.I think her boyfriend was called Richard,so it could be short for Dick!

  • @suchy1962 I LIVED IN DERBY UK

    REMEMBER HER BROTH BEING

    A SUSPECT.....

  • i,m gonna sell the film on ebay,so check it out.

  • anyone who wants to write to a fucking retard like that,is a fucking retard.

  • i have this movie on dvd,found it one day,in a very strange little shop,its very rare,i first saw this film,in 1983.directed by ian merrick,starring donald sumpter,andrew burt,and debbie farrington

  • @limagraar I HAVE IT ALSO HERE USA

  • Thought there'd be more videos for the Neilson/ Whittle case as it's one of the most infamous ever.

    For me this case defines growing up in the 1970's Midlands. I'm not totally convinced he pushed her as how did he know the drop was enough? And what did Neilson have to gain exept a far more intense hunt?

    I'd like to get hold of this movie but can't find it. Maybe time for a remake.

  • i live 5mins away from bath pool

    and i go there a lot

    if you get the chance take a look around the lake, but wen ya see every man-hole you always think of the murder// black panther makes you think could there be any more bodies :S

  • Also I think this clip was from the film made in 1977. Is this out on DVD cos Donald Sumpter played the part really well.

  • Neilson was an evil bugger. He tried to tell Police that Lesley had slipped of the ledge in the drainage shaft but when you look at how many people he killed it makes you think he must have killed her because he didn't get the ransom.

  • Also I have several genuine newspapers of this case. May scan them and put them online if anyone is interested.

  • @airscrew1 get a life u sad twat

  • yes he only has weeks to live, i can tell you a bit about him adam, he's a nasty bugger tho.

  • Omg.. Apparently my dad knew Lesley Whittle. This is scary.

  • He was in Wakefield Prison some 5 years ago.

  • do you have a confirmed prison address for him? id really like to write him a letter.

  • WHY DO YOU WANT TO WRITE TO THAT FUCKER?

  • because Im interested in the case and would like to know what his life is like now.

  • @adamwalsh maybe you should get a different username.?

  • He's in the hospital wing at HMP Full Sutton and he's dying of motor neurone disease.

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