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Over several decades, serial killers and rapists have raped and murdered gay men in the UK including Dennis Nilsen, Colin Ireland, Stephen Port, Gerald Matovu and Reynhard Sinaga. This section is not meant to be definitive.
While David Copeland (1999) does not fit the criteria of a serial killer, he was responsible for the 1999 London nail bombings which included the Admiral Duncan pub in Soho, London where three people were killed and a total of seventy-nine were injured, many of them seriously.
Outside the UK, Canada recently sentenced Bruce McArthur accused of killing and dismembering eight men between 2010 and 2017. In the USA, Jeffrey Dahmer murdered 17 males between 1978 and 1991. Dahmer was captured in 1991 and sentenced to 16 life terms. He was killed by fellow prison inmate Christopher Scarver in 1994.
A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. Different authorities apply different criteria when designating serial killers and, while most set a threshold of three murders, others extend it to four or lessen it to two.
For example, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial killing as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone".
Serial killer | Wikipedia
Murder in English law | Wikipedia
Man, 19, guilty of murdering schoolboy he paid £2,000 to keep silent | The Guardian | 7 Jan 2021
Have you seen this serial killer who murdered gay men in the 1970s? | Buzzfeed | 8 Feb 2019
Serial killer Bruce McArthur gets life sentence in case that terrorized gay men | The New York Times | 8 Feb 2019
