Born to Kill?

Virgin Media Three

1:10 AM to 2:10 AM

Monday 9 February

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Experts analyse the personalities and motives of notorious killers, here revisiting the early 1970s, when Donald Neilson terrorised the north of England with hundreds of burglaries and armed robberies, shooting dead three people in post office raids in 1974. After earning the nickname the 'Black Panther', in 1975 he kidnapped 17-year-old Lesley Whittle and the discovery of her body horrified the nation. When detectives linked the ransom demand with the robberies, they realised they were dealing with the same man