The Black Panther
If you were alive and aware of what was going on around you in the UK in the 1970s, The Black Panther will ring all sorts of bells. Because it tells the story of the man behind the abduction and death of Lesley Whittle. She was a blameless teenager who wound up suspended by her neck on the end of a wire in a reservoir drain, where her abductor had hidden her while he tried to scare up a ransom from her family. The tabloids ran with the story and it became a national talking point. So much so that when this film came out two years after Lesley’s death, many councils in … Read more