By Julia Banim Born to a life of wealth and privilege,Lesley Whittle tragically spent her final days starving and lonely at the bottom of a 54ft ventilation shaft connected to a disused mine, at the mercy of evil serial killer Donald Neilson. Greed-motivated Neilson, who’d already murdered three sub-postmasters in armed robberies, targeted the 17-year-old after reading about a widely reported family dispute over the will of her father George Whittle, who’d passed away in 1972. The head of a successful Shropshire-based coach firm, self-made businessman George left behind a fortune of £300,000, …
