Dennis Nilsen - Conversations with Britain's most evil serial killer

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In my own conversations with Dennis Nilsen, over several years, he did not try to excuse what he did, nor trivialise the devastating effect his actions had upon the families and loved ones of his victims. In a saturated market of true crime novels, there are very few that include the voice of the actual killer. Throughout this committal hearing, he was represented by a solicitor named Ronald Moss, whom he had previously dismissed as his legal representative on 21 April, [137] before Moss was reappointed to the role after Nilsen had complained to magistrates he had been afforded no facilities with which he could mount his own defence.

In protest at having to wear a prison uniform and what he interpreted to be breaches of prison rules, Nilsen threatened to protest against his remand conditions by refusing to wear any clothes; as a result of this threat, he was not allowed to leave his cell. Nilsen initially believed that his fondling of his sister may have been evidence that he was bisexual.On several occasions, Nilsen also made tentative efforts to have his own prone body sexually interfered with by one of his colleagues. The first of these, Paul Nobbs, provided testimony which the prosecution asserted was evidence of Nilsen's self-control and ability to refrain from homicidal impulses. The bodies of the victims killed at his previous address were kept for as long as decomposition would allow: upon noting any major signs of decomposition in a body, Nilsen stowed it beneath his floorboards.

This included the cooking pot in which Nilsen had boiled the heads of the three victims killed at Cranley Gardens, the cutting board he had used to dissect John Howlett, and several rusted catering knives which had formerly belonged to victim Martyn Duffey. He often talked to or played games with his younger sister, Sylvia, to whom he was closer than any other family member following his grandfather's passing. At home, he seldom participated in family activities and retreated from any attempts by adult family members to demonstrate any affection towards him. As a result, he was an unpopular inmate with successive governors at the various prisons in which he was incarcerated.When questioned as to whether he had any remorse for his crimes, Nilsen replied: "I wished I could stop, but I couldn't.