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 Neilson's fourth murder ... Lancashire and Langley in the West Midlands. Dubbed the Black Panther, he struck at Langley Telegraph Post ...

Serial killer Donald Neilson - nicknamed the Black Panther - grabbed the terrified 17-year-old from her bed exactly 50 years ago on January 14, 1975 before her body was eventually found in ...

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 murders in 1976.

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 ...