Donald Neilson, convicted of four murders in 1975, was known by which nickname?
Donald Neilson similarly unhelpful to the police but one, made by sub-postmistress Margaret Grayland, was extremely accurate. Neilson's first three murders occurred in 1974. During post office robberies, he shot dead two sub-postmasters and the husband of a sub-postmistress, as well as brutally battering sub-postmistress Margaret Grayland. He killed Donald Skepper in Harrogate in February 1974, Derek Astin of Baxenden in September 1974, and Sidney Grayland in Langley, West Midlands during November 1974. The Baxenden murder gained Neilson the nickname the "Black Panther", when, during an interview with a local television reporter, Astin's wife Marion described her husband's killer as "so quick,
Donald Neilson were found in the shaft, and in the subterranean canal running below it, by the police. In July 1976, Neilson was convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle, for which he was given a life sentence. Three weeks later he was convicted of the murders of two postmasters and the husband of a postmistress. In total, Neilson received five life sentences. The judge, Mr Justice Mars-Jones, also gave Neilson a further 61 years: 21 years for kidnapping Lesley Whittle and 10 years for blackmailing her mother. Three further sentences of 10 years each were imposed for the two