Murder memorabilia website puts serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s 104-page prison diary up for sale for £750 – including details of how he cut up his victims and flushed body parts down drain
- ‘Murder auction’ website offers the ‘ultra rare’ diary allegedly penned by Nilsen
- The item’s seller claims the diary was written while he awaited trial for murder
- Lot has guide price of £750 and also includes poetry reportedly about victims
- Serial killer Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life in 1983 after he was convicted of murdering six men he befriended and invited back to his North London home
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen’s prison diary is being flogged on a ‘murder auction’ website – revealing gory details of how he dissected his victims and flushed their flesh down the drain.
The ‘ultra rare’ handwritten diary is said to have been penned by Nilsen while he awaited trial for the murder of six men and is being touted as the ‘best Dennis Nilsen item in the world’.
The seller brags the diary offers a ‘rare glimpse’ into Nilsen’s mind after he was arrested in February 1983 and includes pictures and poems from before his trial in November.
A murder auction website is offering the handwritten prison diary of Dennis Nilsen for sale with a guide price of £750. The ‘ultra rare’ item includes some drawings, stories and poetry. The photos are marked with the seller’s ID handle Red Rum which spells murder backwards
Serial killer Dennis Nilsen, pictured during a 1993 TV interview, was jailed for life in 1983 after being convicted of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder. He died in 2018 aged 72
Nilsen, originally from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, was jailed at the Old Bailey in 1983 after being convicted of six charges of murder and two of attempted murder.
He is thought to have killed 15 men and boys after befriending them in pubs and luring them back to his homes in north London where he would mutilate their corpses.
Most of Nilsen’s victims were homosexual or homeless men who he would pick up in bars across London or on the street.
After inviting them to his home, Nilsen would ply his victims with food and alcohol before killing then. His preferred method was strangulation.
Interest in the killer, who died in 2018 aged 72, has risen since the ITV drama Des, starring David Tennant, was screened earlier this year.
The lot has a guide price of £750 and a typed letter by Nilsen is also being sold for less than £200 on the murderauction.com site.
A description of the 104-page diary said: ‘Here collectors we have what we can call without mistaking the best Dennis Nilsen related item available for sale on the internet in the world as you read this right now.
‘This book shows different shift in Nilsen’s writing and mood since being arrested in February 1983.
‘A one of kind 104 diary including great poems written by Dennis Nilsen is the middle of this book.
‘If you find these two examples titled Trying and Silver Boy, where he clearly talks about two different victims he killed and dissected in the month of April and November and that are haunting him.
‘He scattered the bones after curing then part boiling them and flushing parts of their flesh down the drain.
‘It is powerful and it gives you a rare glimpse into Dennis Nilsen’s mind.’
The seller, who uses the name Red Rum, claims there are full signatures and ‘DN’ initials in the manuscript.
One passage reads: ‘I remember especially no interest in my room.
‘You had none and I had less.
‘Unapproachable behind piles of dirty pants, codeine bottles and cheap candles.
‘I had no home to live in, nothing to give you. Except pain that is.’
The seller described the diary as full of ‘great drawings and different accounts and stories’.
They added: ‘I would say it’s signed and I’ve seen at least five signatures from Dennis Andrew Nilsen to Dennis Nilsen with also DN initials.
‘Recent letters from 2000-2015 typed with a Dennis’ signature are commanding 400-500$ as we speak.
‘Anything handwritten is very rarely seen and pre trial letters are even more difficult to come by.
‘A pre-trial and post-trial diary journal with all the information like this one just never came up for sale.
‘I haven’t seen one before.’
The seller also includes the transcript of two poems said to have been written by the serial killer.
Photos of the diary are watermarked with the words Red Rum – the seller’s ID which also spells murder backwards.
The photos show a wide range in handwriting and some pages include bizarre drawings including one which appears to show a factory in Bradford.