Donald Neilson
[Dream target date 11 Dec 1975]
Two policemen,
Tony White and Stuart Mackenzie were driving through Mansfield
Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire at 11.45pm, when they noticed a
suspicious-looking man carrying a black holdall loitering
near the post office.
As a
matter of routine they stopped to question him. The man said
he was on his way home from work - and then produced a sawn-off
shotgun from a parcel he was holding. He ordered White back
into the car, then sat in the passenger seat with the gun
jammed into Mackenzie's ribs.
He ordered
them to drive to Blidworth, six miles away. As they were cruising
along Southwell Road the gunman asked if they had any rope.
As White pretended to look, he saw that the gun was no longer
pointing at his companion; he pushed up the gun and Mackenzie
stamped on the brake.
They
were outside 'The Junction Chippy' in Rainworth and called
for help. The gun went off grazing White's hand. Two men ran
from the queue outside the fish and chip shop and helped subdue
the desperate gunman. The locals attacked him so severely
that in the end the police had to protect him.
They
handcuffed the gunman to some iron railings at the side of
the bus stop, and when they found two Panther hoods on him,
they realised that they had probably caught the most wanted
man in Britain.
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