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Dennis Nilsen

 Dennis Andrew Nilsen was a serial killer and necrophile, who murdered at least 12 young men between 1978 and 1983, most of them homeless and gay.

They include: Stephen Dean Holmes, Andrew Ho, Kenneth Ockendon, Martyn Duffey, William 'Billy' Sutherland, Douglas Stewart, Malcolm Barlow, Paul Nobbs, John Howlett, Carl Stotter, Archibald Graham Allan, and Steve Sinclair.

Nilsen was sentenced to life imprisonment on 4 November 1983, convicted at the Old Bailey of 6 counts of murder and 2 of attempted murder. With a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years, he was incarcerated at Full Sutton maximum security prison in his later years. He became known as the Muswell Hill Murderer as he committed his later murders in Muswell Hill, in north London.

Dennis Nilsen | Wikipedia
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen dies in prison aged 72 | The Guardian | 12 May 2018
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