Surprised so little exists about killer

READING the article on Margaret Moxom’s book about Leslie Green (The Sentinel, November 17) brought back memories.

I am surprised she found little on Green himself. Firstly he had been the driver-gardener for the Wiltshaws, who fired him for some offence or other.

He lived in what was then Castle Street, Sandford Hill, Longton, with his wife and young daughter. This is about one minute away from where I was born, and where my aunt still lived.

Before Green was sacked, my cousin who was a friend of Green’s wife’s sister, and was in the RAF at Stafford used to cycle with Green to Barlaston and then on to Stafford.

What Green apparently did on the day of the murder, was spend time in the North Stafford Hotel, opposite Stoke station, then catch a train to Barlaston, walk up the lane to the Wiltshaw house, attempt to burgle it and was caught by Mrs Wiltshaw. She was found dead in a pool of blood. Green ran back to the station and caught the next train back to Stoke – all in about 45 minutes.

Miss Moxom knows he handed himself into Longton Police station but before he handed himself in, the streets seemed to be swarming with black police cars, presumably because he was the main suspect.

Green had a lady friend (a nurse) in, I think, Leeds, in whose flat were found hidden pieces of Mrs Wiltshaw’s jewellery.

There was absolutely no evidence of this lady’s involvement in the crime. Green was, of course, found guilty, and in my opinion rightly hanged. There was a photo in The Sentinel of the dock where he stood and scratched into the woodwork was ‘Leslie Green made his last stand here!’

PHILIP SANDLAND LONGTON