The Black Panther: He Left a Teenager Hanging 54 Feet Underground
In January 1975, 17-year-old Lesley Whittle was taken from her bed in the middle of the night. For weeks she was held in a dark drainage shaft with a wire noose around her neck while her family received ransom demands for £50,000. When police finally found her, she was hanging from that wire.
The man responsible had already murdered three people in post-office raids across the north of England. He wore black, moved like a shadow, and the press called him the Black Panther. For months he remained Britain’s most wanted man—until a chance encounter with two police officers ended the hunt.
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