Evening Standard - London, November 9th, 2006
GAY serial killer Dennis Nilsen speaks today about his first victim - a boy of 14 whose body he kept under the floorboards of his flat for eight months.
In an extraordinary letter sent to the Standard from his prison cell, Nilsen tells how he picked up Stephen Holmes in December 1978 in a pub.
He lured the boy to his flat in Cricklewood where he strangled him with a tie until he was semiconscious and then drowned him by holding his head in a bucket of water. It was the beginning of a series of gruesome murders of young men that went on until his arrest in 1983.
In the letter, Nilsen, 60, co...
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