The Black Panther - Debbie Farrington

A dramatisation of the notorious kidnapping case of the Seventies. Donald Neilson snatched teenage heiress Lesley Whittle from her bed and hid her away deep underground in a storm drain.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• British
• crime
• horror
• drama
• kidnap
• murder
• suspense
• thriller

[airscrew1]

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

[casper20096]

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

[MALCBAGGIE]

@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.

[marcofstoke]

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

[Bodaniel7]

@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.

[Bodaniel7]

@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.

[TheWolfie6]

@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]

@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.

[MALCBAGGIE]

Thanks for that Julia-very interesting but sad too.



[JuliaKane]

@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.

[chabezloujas]

@JuliaKane

Hello

Interesting.. What was Lesley like?

[Bodaniel7]

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.