Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 15 April 1986

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

Neilson then drove Whittle to Bathpool Park in Kidsgrove, Staffordshire. There he forced her down into the drainage shaft of the nearby reservoir. Inside the shaft he placed a hood over her head, removed the dressing gown leaving her naked and then tethered her to the side of the shaft by a wire noose. There was a mattress and a sleeping bag. On 6 March 1975 police found Whittle's body hanging from a steel wire only 180mm from the bottom of the 6m deep shaft.
(13 January 1975)

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Tuesday 15th of April 1986

39 years ago

Writer, thief and political activist Jean Genet dies of throat cancer at the age of 76 in Jack's Hôtel Room #205, 19 Avenue Stéphen-Pichon, XIIIe, Paris, Île-de-France, France.

Genet is buried in the Spanish Cemetery in Larache, Morocco.