http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7450402.stm
Link from the BBC (He'll not be let out)
When we were 1st married (in 1983) and we decorated our house we took up the carpet in the bedroom to replace it. The previous people had laid newspaper down as a lining it was the daily Telegraph from 1975 and the Front page carried the story about poor Lesley Whittle having been kidnapped. My 1st impulse was to rush to the phone to tell them that he had hidden her in Bathpool Park until I remembered I was reading an 8 year old paper (Fool)
This is a story that gripped us over here at the time.