Didn't someone on here live next door to him, know some what did, or work with him? Seem to remember reading something along those lines.
My wife's cousin's husband is a prison officer and had him at his prison. He was very calm and softly spoken according to him. I've not shared this info on here before though.
Just read the story on the colleague thread. I don't intend to get into a discussion of why you don't have the death penalty in the UK but... I think this evil man should've died three decades ago.
Didn't someone on here live next door to him, know some what did, or work with him? Seem to remember reading something along those lines.
Yes that was me. The guy that I shared an office with in 1983 lived on the ground floor of the house (Nilsen lived on the top floor) where Nilsen committed the murders.
The drains of the house became blocked and overflowed. My colleague phoned the plumbers to get the drains cleaned. The plumbers then found human remains in the drains and they contacted the police, and Nilsen was arrested. They then found numerous human remains in the upstairs flat of the house.
My colleague and Nilsen often walked their dogs together of an evening.
Just read the story on the colleague thread. I don't intend to get into a discussion of why you don't have the death penalty in the UK but... I think this evil man should've died three decades ago.
I look at it a different way, we took his life away for 3 decades and reminded him of it every day.
Anyway I won’t be shedding any tears for this warped individual.
I once went on a Health and Safety course where I got friendly with a civilian trainer who worked in HMP Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire. He taught woodwork and crafts to prisoners including for a time Nilsen.
His comments to me were that Nilsen was quiet and seemed to calculate everything that happened. Polite and deep as the ocean. A real creepy character.
@LenGlover - yep, I did indeed know Nilsen, had known him since 2005 when I joined HMPS and was posted to the prison that he had been at for some considerable time. For the last three years I have worked on the wing that he was resident on and so spoke to him every day I was on shift but I was on a rest day when he fell ill.
Can I just state that yes, his crimes were heinous and he deserved never to see the light of the free world again but he knew that. He never appealed, he never claimed innocence, he readily admitted that he was a serial killer and deserved his fate. He never tried to minimise his crimes, never sought to blame his actions on the influences of alcohol (despite his admittance of having a severely problematic relationship with alcohol) or ‘voices in his head’. He accepted that that there was something in him that compelled him to commit the crimes he did and that it was best for everyone that he was caught.
He didn’t really have an aura of evil about him, I’ve encountered many more inmates that have made me far more uneasy than Dennis. He did however have severe delusions of intelligent grandeur and he was extremely narcissistic yet was quite tedious to talk to. You could never have a one-on-one equal conversation with him, he’d talk at you and would barely give credence to anyone else’s opinion and once he was in full flow with his history lessons, political views and lessons in life it was hard to get away from him. It became known on the wing as ‘being Nilsened’. I had a few cons who knew to come and ‘save’ me if I gave them the signal.
There was one incident involving Nilsen that will probably always tickle me in a sick way. One day the toilet in the cell next to his got blocked and works came to sort it. I was stood in the doorway talking to the works lads as they worked away when he appeared from his cell and said in such a deadpan way ‘I can tell you now, I’m not responsible for that’ before sauntering off.
I’m not sad at his passing, I would never shed a tear but in a strange way I think I’ll miss him around the wing. He was certainly more interesting than the majority of wrong uns I encounter.
@LenGlover - yep, I did indeed know Nilsen, had known him since 2005 when I joined HMPS and was posted to the prison that he had been at for some considerable time. For the last three years I have worked on the wing that he was resident on and so spoke to him every day I was on shift but I was on a rest day when he fell ill.
Can I just state that yes, his crimes were heinous and he deserved never to see the light of the free world again but he knew that. He never appealed, he never claimed innocence, he readily admitted that he was a serial killer and deserved his fate. He never tried to minimise his crimes, never sought to blame his actions on the influences of alcohol (despite his admittance of having a severely problematic relationship with alcohol) or ‘voices in his head’. He accepted that that there was something in him that compelled him to commit the crimes he did and that it was best for everyone that he was caught.
He didn’t really have an aura of evil about him, I’ve encountered many more inmates that have made me far more uneasy than Dennis. He did however have severe delusions of intelligent grandeur and he was extremely narcissistic yet was quite tedious to talk to. You could never have a one-on-one equal conversation with him, he’d talk at you and would barely give credence to anyone else’s opinion and once he was in full flow with his history lessons, political views and lessons in life it was hard to get away from him. It became known on the wing as ‘being Nilsened’. I had a few cons who knew to come and ‘save’ me if I gave them the signal.
There was one incident involving Nilsen that will probably always tickle me in a sick way. One day the toilet in the cell next to his got blocked and works came to sort it. I was stood in the doorway talking to the works lads as they worked away when he appeared from his cell and said in such a deadpan way ‘I can tell you now, I’m not responsible for that’ before sauntering off.
I’m not sad at his passing, I would never shed a tear but in a strange way I think I’ll miss him around the wing. He was certainly more interesting than the majority of wrong uns I encounter.
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Didn't someone on here live next door to him, know some what did, or work with him? Seem to remember reading something along those lines.
Should have suffered a lot longer than he did!!
The guy that I shared an office with in 1983 lived on the ground floor of the house (Nilsen lived on the top floor) where Nilsen committed the murders.
The drains of the house became blocked and overflowed. My colleague phoned the plumbers to get the drains cleaned. The plumbers then found human remains in the drains and they contacted the police, and Nilsen was arrested. They then found numerous human remains in the upstairs flat of the house.
My colleague and Nilsen often walked their dogs together of an evening.
Don't RIP burn
Anyway I won’t be shedding any tears for this warped individual.
His comments to me were that Nilsen was quiet and seemed to calculate everything that happened. Polite and deep as the ocean. A real creepy character.
His death is certainly no loss to the world.
Can I just state that yes, his crimes were heinous and he deserved never to see the light of the free world again but he knew that. He never appealed, he never claimed innocence, he readily admitted that he was a serial killer and deserved his fate. He never tried to minimise his crimes, never sought to blame his actions on the influences of alcohol (despite his admittance of having a severely problematic relationship with alcohol) or ‘voices in his head’. He accepted that that there was something in him that compelled him to commit the crimes he did and that it was best for everyone that he was caught.
He didn’t really have an aura of evil about him, I’ve encountered many more inmates that have made me far more uneasy than Dennis. He did however have severe delusions of intelligent grandeur and he was extremely narcissistic yet was quite tedious to talk to. You could never have a one-on-one equal conversation with him, he’d talk at you and would barely give credence to anyone else’s opinion and once he was in full flow with his history lessons, political views and lessons in life it was hard to get away from him. It became known on the wing as ‘being Nilsened’. I had a few cons who knew to come and ‘save’ me if I gave them the signal.
There was one incident involving Nilsen that will probably always tickle me in a sick way. One day the toilet in the cell next to his got blocked and works came to sort it. I was stood in the doorway talking to the works lads as they worked away when he appeared from his cell and said in such a deadpan way ‘I can tell you now, I’m not responsible for that’ before sauntering off.
I’m not sad at his passing, I would never shed a tear but in a strange way I think I’ll miss him around the wing. He was certainly more interesting than the majority of wrong uns I encounter.
; )