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

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 ...

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.

Things started to go wrong from the very beginning. With kidnap virtually unheard of in Britain 50 years ago, police initially thought the disappearance of teenager Lesley Whittle might be a ...

Born to a life of privilege, heiress Lesley Whittle tragically spent her final days starving and lonely at the bottom of a 54ft ventilation shaft connected to a disused mine in one of North ...

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. Lesley Whittle, who lived in Highley, Shropshire, was killed in ...

It was one of those crimes the people of the West Midlands will never forget. Lesley Whittle from Highley near Bridgnorth, ...