Donald Neilson. Black Panther is no more!

Donald Neilson. Black Panther is no more!

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Bebee

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4,685 posts

227 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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I'm old enough to remember what this bd did to Leslie Whittle, I lived not too far from her home at the time, in 1975.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16242235

Edited by Bebee on Monday 19th December 18:44

MonkeyHanger

9,208 posts

244 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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Taken to Hospital with breathing difficulties....it's a shame that didn't happen 35 years ago, with the help of a length of rope and a trap door.

anonymous-user

56 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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He murdered someone in the village up the road from me. What he did to that girl and what he put her family through was absolutely terrible.

anonymous-user

56 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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My best mate taught him I.T lessons when he first qualified as a teacher many years ago. Said the sense of evil was palpable (and the fact that his eyes seemed to have no colour and be solid black)

Old Merc

3,514 posts

169 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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At least he got sentenced to life in prison, and it really did happen.He came out 36yrs later in a box!it worked.There are plenty of murderers like him walking the streets today, after doing a "life sentence".The IRA Good Friday mob to name just a few.I`m sure a few more names will pop up? Murderers like these should spend the rest of there life in jail,end of.Yes capital punishment is best but that will never happen,a pity.

Pesty

42,655 posts

258 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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SAw a documentary about this bloke a while ago.

Pity we cant go back in time and hire that guy from NY to burn him alive

Derek Smith

45,905 posts

250 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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I went to the Black Museum at New Scotland Yard when they had an exhibit of Neilson's murder of Lesley Whittle. The narrative was written in cold, plain English and the drawing of the drain was every bit as clear. It showed her kneeling right by the drop with the noose around her neck.

The explanation included the phrase 'utter darkness' and you had to have no imagination whatsoever not to be shocked to the core. It got to me so much that I just had to dig out as much information as I could about it, even getting to read a couple of the statements of the officers who attended the scene. I wish I handn't.

I've never thought of myself as vindictive but I have to say that at the time, and still, I was pleased he wasn't hanged and had to know that for the rest of his life he'd be in his prison. What he did to that girl was unspeakable. MND, horrible though the disease is, was too good for him but it will have to do.

I remember a discussion on TV about how to bring up children and one person said something along the lines of us being too soft on children nowadays t their detriment. We should tell them that monsters beyond our wildest imagination exist and Neilson proves that person was spot on.

Lost_BMW

12,955 posts

178 months

Monday 19th December 2011
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If anyone is interested in a fascinating and chilling (and very well written) story about the criminal mind, the book 'Lantern Lectures' by Adam Mar Jones has a short story about him and his crimes that is chilling and captivating in equal measure.

IhateChristmas

23,221 posts

232 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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There must be murderers who were sentenced in the softer decades after him who did their time and were out while he remained in jail.

Reminds me of the three prisoners in jail.

I'm here because I opposed the president, says the first.

I'm here because I was for the president, says the second.

I am the president, says the third.

W124Bob

1,753 posts

177 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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This is one of those moments from childhood I can remember particularly as I drive my train daily through Kidsgrove.It was on Midlands Today for many weeks I seem to remember.

heebeegeetee

28,924 posts

250 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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Good news.

Aids

206 posts

169 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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I also remember the Leslie Whittle case when I was 11 back in 1975. I remember the Court trial. Totally appalling man! Along with other murderers such as Rober Black, Neilson should have swung from the gallows!

Rude-boy

22,227 posts

235 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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One less of his kind about then which is a good thing.

Shame the Police didn't bother to check the ground he was spotted on, nor think to have a look in under the drain cover once they fianlly did go for a look about 12 hours later.

tali1

5,267 posts

203 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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My cousin had a house very near to Yorkshire Ripper, now his current very house is near Black Panther's eek

Steffan

10,362 posts

230 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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Good.

Maybe the victims families can get some peace.

Gene Vincent

4,002 posts

160 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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There is no heaven and there is no hell, but I sometimes wish there was. A vile and evil weasel is dead and I wish to never be reminded of the creature after this moment. An individual human at its lowest denominator.

Good riddance.

smegmore

3,091 posts

178 months

Tuesday 20th December 2011
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Gene Vincent said:
There is no heaven and there is no hell, but I sometimes wish there was. A vile and evil weasel is dead and I wish to never be reminded of the creature after this moment. An individual human at its lowest denominator.

Good riddance.
Good post GV, but couldn't you have just bombarded him with quarks to ensure a just punishment?

B Huey

4,881 posts

201 months

Thursday 22nd December 2011
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The murder of Leslie Whittle has to be one of the most disturbing crimes ever. The devil himself would struggle to come up with a more depraved act.

May the dirty bd burn through eternity.

Derek Smith

45,905 posts

250 months

Saturday 24th December 2011
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There's a picture of the drain here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078229/Wh...

Imagine having to kneel, a noose around your neck, all alone in pitch darkness.