Dennis Nilsen
Scottish serial killer (1945-2018) · United Kingdom · Died at 72
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Something wrong?Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983.
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Cranley Gardens, Muswell Hill. Nilsen occupied an attic flat. His practice of flushing dissected body parts down the lavatory led to his arrest.
The 12 February 1983 front page of the Daily Mirror, describing Nilsen having been formally charged with the murder of his last victim, Stephen Sinclair
The Old Bailey, London. Nilsen was brought to trial at this location on 24 October 1983About this person
Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder, Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years; this recommendation was later changed to a whole life tariff in December 1994. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at HM Prison Full Sutton in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
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