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circle so that he was waiting for the youth when he cycled downhill. He grabbed Richard’s handlebars, pulled him off the bike and put a knife to his throat. He then dragged the youth to his car where he chloroformed him.
    The sadist then drove at speed through the countryside, before parking, blindfolding the youth and carrying him into a field. Richard revived somewhat and was marched through an orchard at knifepoint, then he lost consciousness again.
    At some stage he revived and Victor Miller beat his back with a broken stick and possibly with a branch of gorse, implements he’d brought with him for the purposes of flagellation. The boy was so shocked by this deliberate cruelty that he blocked the details out, and would only remember them later under hypnosis. But his flesh showed the marks made by the stick for many days.
    As the effects of the chloroform wore off, Richard became aware that he was sitting down and stripped to the waist with his abductor unzipping his flies. Terrified, he tore off the blindfold and kicked out at his attacker, managing to throw him backwards so that he fell. Jumping to his feet, Richard ran and hid in a nearby field waiting for the car to leave, then raced through the countryside until he found help.
    A lucky escape
    The following day, Victor Miller again went out in search of a boy to torture. This time he stopped a 14-year-old in Broome 42
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    and asked him for directions to Birmingham. But the boy noted that the dark-complexioned young man didn’t follow the instructions he gave – and he became increasingly alarmed when he saw that the man appeared to be circling the area and staring at him in a predatory way. He hid in the garden of a house until he saw the reassuring presence of the local post van and began to cycle alongside it. To his relief, Victor Miller drove swiftly away.
    The murder
    But Miller was determined to get himself a victim, and on Sunday he went to Hagley and drove around until he saw 14-year-old Stuart Gough who had just finished his Sunday paper round. Miller abducted Stuart at knifepoint, blindfolded him and drove him almost 40 miles to the Herefordshire woods. The details of what he did to the boy have never been disclosed, the police stating that the public and press did not need to know.
    After murdering the teenager, Victor Miller drove 80 miles to the Staffordshire moors where he buried the child’s clothing, his newspaper sack and asthma inhaler. He also buried his own knife.
    A false alibi
    Victor Glenford Miller was a suspect from early on in Stuart Gough’s disappearance as several witnesses had seen a round-faced mixed race man in a silver-coloured car acting suspiciously in the area, and Miller fit the bill with his silver Colt Sapporo.
    He lived within easy driving distance of the abduction location and had previous convictions for attacks on young boys.
    Miller said he’d been working with Peacher at Manders Paints all week (Miller had a job as a warehouseman there in Wolverhampton) but when the police checked their alibi, they found that neither man had been at the firm for the last seven days.
    The evidence against Miller began to mount up. Gorse needles were found in the boot of his car – and gorse branches 43
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    had been used in Richard Holden’s torture. Tyre marks in the orchard matched the tyres of his car. And Richard identified the vehicle’s customised loudspeakers.
    The body
    Victor Miller was charged with Richard Holden’s abduction and injury, but he still refused to admit that he was responsible for Stuart Gough’s abduction and suspected murder. But Trevor Peacher now admitted that he’d given his lover a false alibi and the police let Miller know that they were aware of the earlier Catstree assault.
    Eventually, two weeks after Stuart Gough had disappeared, Miller agreed to take police