It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of Kenneth Donnan Lawson of Easley, South Carolina, born in Chester, South Carolina, who passed away on April 28, 2023, at the age of 82, leaving to mourn family and friends. No sexual activity had occurred, but this incident fuelled Nilsen's sexual fantasies, which initially involved his sexual partnerinvariably a young, slender malebeing completely passive. Philip Serrell's beautiful family life with wife and daughter, and clever secret behind why he always wears a scarf; Story Saved. Staring out of the window of the police car, he replied, "Fifteen or sixteen, since 1978. Discussing his first murder with author Russ Coffey, Nilsen elaborated in 2012: "Man knows not what alienation is until he has experienced the severity of absolute detachment I was feeling on the morning of 30 December 1978.". [40][42], Between December 1973 and May 1974, Nilsen worked as a security guard. In his subsequent written confessions, Nilsen stated he was "afraid to wake him in case he left me". [159] Nilsen also claimed drunkenness was the sole reason at least two of his attempted murders were unsuccessful. He twice masturbated over the body, before awaiting the passing of rigor mortis to enable him to stow the corpse beneath his floorboards. Kenneth Ockenden was a Canadian student visiting relatives in Britain when he encountered Dennis Nilsen. In his later years, Nilsen was imprisoned at Full Sutton maximum security prison. Following each murder, Nilsen would perform a ritual in which he bathed and dressed the victim's body, which he retained for extended periods of time, before dissecting and disposing of the remains by burning them in a bonfire or flushing them down a toilet. Following the closing arguments of both prosecution and defence, the jury retired to consider their verdict on 3 November 1983. Prior to moving into Melrose Avenue, Nilsen negotiated a deal with the landlord whereby he and Gallichan had exclusive use of the garden at the rear of the property. In mid-1981, Nilsen's landlord decided to renovate 195 Melrose Avenue,[93] and asked Nilsen to vacate the property. On approximately four occasions over the following fortnight, Nilsen disinterred Ockenden's body from beneath his floorboards and seated the body upon his armchair alongside him as he himself watched television and drank alcohol. I'll tell you everything. Early History of the Ockenden family. [103], In his subsequent testimony at Nilsen's trial, Stottor stated he initially believed Nilsen was trying to free him from the zip of the sleeping bag, before he returned to a state of unconsciousness. He was adamant that the decision to kill was not made until moments before the act of murder. [100] For over a week following Howlett's murder, Nilsen's own neck bore the victim's finger impressions. [74] In several instances, he talked to the victim's body as it remained seated in a chair or prone on his bed,[131] and he recalled being emotional as he marvelled at the beauty of their bodies. He was then arrested and cautioned on suspicion of murder before being taken to Hornsey police station. Almost exactly a year after the first murder, this 23-year-old Canadian student was killed on December 3, 1979. . In relation to the first of these three unidentified victims, he later casually reflected: "End of the day, end of the drink, end of a person floorboards back, carpet replaced, and back to work at Denmark Street". Under English law, the police had forty-eight hours in which to charge Nilsen or release him. His attendance record was mediocre, although he frequently volunteered to work overtime, leading several colleagues to suspect he was something of a loner. 1270. [10] His body was brought ashore and returned to the Whyte family home prior to burial. [176] Several items confiscated from Nilsen's Cranley Gardens addresssome of which had been introduced as evidence at Nilsen's trialare on display at New Scotland Yard's Crime Museum. [162] Afterward, he was briefly transferred to HMP Parkhurst, before being transferred to HMP Wakefield, where he remained until 1990. [175] Formal identification was confirmed via a combination of circumstantial evidence and by Nilsen identifying a photograph of the youth shown to him by police (all bone fragments found at Melrose Avenue had been destroyed). Kenneth Hagans Obituary. The primary dispute between the prosecuting and defence counsel was not whether Nilsen had killed the victims, but his state of mind before and during the killings. This is achieved by taking increased amounts of alcohol and plugging into stereo music which mentally removes me to a high plane of ecstasy, joy and tears. Born in Fraserburgh, he was dubbed the Muswell Hill Murderer after the North London suburb where he strangled and drowned his victims at two homes. The couple divorced in 1948. Nilsen realised he was still barely alive. Sinclair was last seen by acquaintances in the company of Nilsen, walking in the direction of a tube station. Kenneth Ockenden was one of his first victims and one of the few to be reported missing. Nilsen was eventually sentenced to life imprisonment in1983 and died in 2018 in prison. [28], Unlike his previous postings, Nilsen had his own room while stationed in Aden. In response, Jay informed Nilsen that the other two were also police officers, and requested access to his flat to discuss the matter further. Nilsen attempted to strangle Ho, who managed to flee from his flat and reported the incident to police. Nilsen is again known to have informed his employers he was ill and unable to attend work on 9 October 1982likely in order that he could complete the dissection of Allen's body. I relive experiences from childhood to present, taking out the bad bits. Nilsen's scholastic record was above average. The newlyweds moved into her parents' house.[3]. He murdered Martyn Duffey, 16, on May 17, 1980 and William Sutherland, 26, the following August. The prosecuting counsel, Allan Green QC, argued that Nilsen was sane, in full control of his actions, and had killed with premeditation. [174] He writes: "When I was with people, I was in the 'real' world, and in my private life, I snapped instantly into my fantasy life. [170][171] The legal case he brought against the prison service was dismissed because he could not establish that any breach of his human rights had occurred.[172]. The defence counsel, Ivan Lawrence QC, argued that Nilsen suffered from diminished responsibility, rendering him incapable of forming the intention to commit murder, and should therefore be convicted only of manslaughter.[142][138]. The minimum term of 25 years imprisonment to which Nilsen was sentenced in 1983 was replaced by a whole-life tariff by Home Secretary Michael Howard in December 1994. One of Nilsen's stalking grounds was Camden, North London. Kenneth F Adkison Obituary. They had met at a West End pub on December 3, and Nilsen offered to show Ockenden around London, before visiting his flat for food and more drinks. [144] Upon cross-examination, the defence counsel sought to undermine Stewart's credibility, pointing to minor inconsistencies in the testimony, the fact he had consumed much alcohol on the night in question, and suggesting his memory had been selectively magnified as he had previously sold his story to the press. According to Nilsen, he had been drinking heavily alone on the day he met Holmes before deciding in the evening that he must "at all costs" leave his flat and seek company. [160][n 11]. [27], Following two years of service in Osnabrck, Nilsen returned to Aldershot, where he passed his official catering exam before being deployed to serve as a cook for the British Army in Norway. [158] As a Category A prisoner, he was assigned his own cell and could mix freely with other inmates. The following morning, Nilsen awoke to find the sleeping Holmes beside him on his bed. Nilsen is known to have informed his employers he was ill and unable to attend work on 12 January in order that he could dissect both this victim and another unidentified victim he had killed approximately one month earlier. Nilsen was a quiet yet adventurous child. A drifter and a loner, Nilsen served in the army. He was loved and cherished by many people including : his spouse . Nilsen confirmed that on four occasions, he had removed the accumulated bodies from beneath his floorboards and dissected the remains, and on three of these occasions, he had then disposed of the accumulated remains upon an assembled bonfire. Quick access. He finished his schooling in 1961 and briefly worked in a canning factory as he considered which career path he should choose. The first of these, James MacKeith, began his testimony on 26 October. As a result, he was an unpopular inmate with successive governors at the various prisons in which he was incarcerated. [85] When the bonfire had been reduced to ashes and cinders, Nilsen used a rake to search the debris for any recognisable bones. On the way home, they stopped off at an off licence store and purchased whisky, rum and beer. [167] The interview was screened in full that evening. The 23-year-old was touring England while visiting relatives before he fell into Nilsen's depraved clutches. Cattran discovered some scraps of flesh and four bones in a pipe leading from the drain which linked to the top flat of the house. One bag was found to contain two dissected torsos, one of which had been vertically dissected, and a shopping bag containing various internal organs. As Cattran had arrived at the property at dusk, he and Wheeler agreed to postpone further investigation into the blockage until the following morning. On one occasion, Nilsen and a German youth drank themselves into a stupor. [156] Croom-Johnson sentenced Nilsen to life imprisonment with a recommendation that he serve a minimum of 25 years' imprisonment. Duffey was a catering student from Birkenhead, Merseyside, who had hitchhiked to London without his parents' knowledge on 13 May after being questioned by the British Transport Police for evading his train fare. Between 1978 and 1983, Nilsen is known to have killed a minimum of twelve men and boys, and to have attempted to kill seven others (he initially confessed in 1983 to having killed about sixteen victims). [180][181][182], On 10 May 2018, Nilsen was taken from HMP Full Sutton to York Hospital after complaining of severe stomach pains. [25], In mid-1964, Nilsen passed his initial catering exam and was officially assigned to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in Osnabrck, West Germany, where he served as a private. He moved into an attic flat at 23D Cranley Gardens[94] in the Muswell Hill district of North London on 5 October 1981. [89] The following month, Nilsen removed the internal organs of several victims stowed beneath his floorboards. In a letter Nilsen later penned to Stottor following his conviction in which Stottor asked Nilsen why he had attempted to murder him, but then revived him, Nilsen simply replied, "What passed between us was a thin strand of, Nilsen would later reflect that as he sat staring at Sinclair immediately prior to murdering him, he had thought to himself: "All that potential, all that beauty, and all that pain that is his life it will soon be over.". Although Nilsen initially resented his stepfather (whom he viewed as an unfair disciplinarian) he gradually came to grudgingly respect him. When Stottor had regained enough strength to question Nilsen as to his recollections of being strangled and immersed in cold water, Nilsen explained he had become caught in the zip of the sleeping bag following a nightmare, and that he had placed him in cold water as "you were in shock". [58] The victims killed in 1982 and 1983 at his Muswell Hill residence were retained at his flat, with their flesh and smaller bones flushed down the lavatory. [62] Nilsen invited Holmes to his house with the promise of the two drinking alcohol and listening to music,[63] believing him to be approximately 17 years old. [51] Gallichan later insisted Nilsen had never been violent towards him, but that he did engage in verbal abuse, and the pair had begun arguing with increasing frequency by early 1976. On 25 October the court heard testimony from two further men who had survived attempts by Nilsen to strangle them. THE heartbroken family of one of Dennis Nilsen's victims has slammed ITV for cashing in on the serial killer's twisted crimes. He described himself and his colleagues as a "hard-working, boozy lot"; his colleagues recalled he often drank to excess in order to ease his shyness. Family and friends are welcome to leave their condolences on this memorial page and share them with the family. With heavy hearts, we announce the death of Kenneth F Adkison (Garden City, Michigan), who passed away on April 30, 2023 at the age of 97. Ockenden was a Canadian student visiting relatives in Britain when he encountered Dennis Nilsen. Police interviewed Nilsen on sixteen separate occasions over the following days, in interviews which totalled over thirty hours. After meeting at a pub, the pair went to a few big tourist spots together, visiting Trafalgar Square, Downing Street and Westminster Abbey. Nilsen grew to resent what he saw as the unfair amount of attention his mother, grandmother and later, stepfather displayed towards his older brother and younger sister. [18] Nilsen made no efforts to seek sexual contact with any of the peers to whom he was sexually attracted, although he later said he had been fondled by an older youth and did not find the experience unpleasant. 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. [93] The day before he vacated the property, Nilsen burned the dissected bodies of the last five victims he had killed at this address upon a third and final bonfire he constructed in the garden behind his flat. Following Jay's testimony, DS Chambers recited Nilsen's formal confession to the court. He had no memory of the assault. [86], On or about 4 January 1981, Nilsen encountered an unidentified man whom he described for investigators as an "18-year-old, blue-eyed" young Scot[87] at the Golden Lion pub in Soho; he was lured to Melrose Avenue upon the promise of partaking in a drinking contest. His developed fantasies of sex with an unresistant or deceased partner unfulfilled, Nilsen compensated by imagining sexual encounters with an unconscious body as he masturbated while looking at his own prone, nude body in a mirror. I disinterred him and pulled the dirt-stained youth up onto the floor. [122][123] By 11 February, reporters from the Mirror had obtained photographs from Nilsen's mother in Aberdeenshire,[124] which appeared on their front page the following day. He respected his parents' efforts to provide and care for their children, but began to resent the fact that his family was poorer than most of his peers, with his mother and stepfather making no effort to better their lifestyles; thus, Nilsen seldom invited his friends to the family home. On 26 May, Nilsen was committed to stand trial at the Old Bailey on five counts of murder and two of attempted murder (a sixth murder charge was later added). He was invited in and, after eating a meal, began drinking rum and coke before falling asleep on the sofa. Nilsen strangled him with a headphone cord. He then vaguely recalled hearing "water running" before realising he was immersed in the water and that Nilsen was attempting to drown him. Final findings, conclusions and essential actions from the Ockenden review of maternity services at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (print ready version) Ref: ISBN 978-1-5286-3229-4 , HC . To counteract this argument, Green added: "The Crown says that even if there was mental abnormality, that was not sufficient to diminish substantially his responsibility for these killings". [164] Nilsen remained at HMP Full Sutton until his death on 12 May 2018. [32], When Nilsen completed his deployment in Aden, he returned to the UK and was assigned to serve with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders at Seaton Barracks in Plymouth, Devon. THE heartbroken family of one of Dennis Nilsen's victims has slammed ITV for cashing in on the serial killer's twisted crimes. On 31 October 1951, while fishing in the North Sea, he died of a heart attack at the age of 62. In the five years between 1978 to 1983, Dennis Nilsen brought home fifteen young men with him from London bars. ", Written statement made by Nilsen to DCI Peter Jay, February 1983.[147]. After the youth had fallen asleep in Nilsen's bed, Nilsen fashioned a ligature around his neck, then simultaneously sat on Duffey's chest and tightened the ligature with a "great force". Gallwey conceded that Nilsen was intellectually aware of his actions, but stressed that, due to his personality disorder, Nilsen did not appreciate the criminal nature of what he had done. He bragged of this sexual encounter to his colleagues, but later stated he found intercourse with a female both "over-rated" and "depressing". [99] Following a ferocious struggle (in which Howlett himself attempted to strangle his attacker), Nilsen strangled Howlett into unconsciousness with an upholstery strap before returning to his living room, shaking from the "stress of the struggle" in which he had believed he would be overpowered. Nilsen then invited the student to his house on the promise of a meal and further drinks. If the victim had been strangled into unconsciousness, Nilsen then drowned him in his bathtub, his sink or a bucket of water before observing a ritual in which he bathed, clothed and retained the bodies inside his residences for several weeks or, occasionally, months before he dismembered them. The couple met in Hamilton, Ontario, where Irene's family fled Russia's invasion of Estonia at the end of World War II. Nilsen then washed the body in his bathtub before placing Holmes on his bed and caressing his body. No more!" Also, actor Rupert Everett has now made a shock claim that he could have been one of the sick murderers victims, here is what he said. Kenneth P Ockenden, born 1934 Kenneth P Ockenden was born on month day 1934, to Agnes S Ockenden. Nonetheless, immediately prior to his dissecting the victims' bodies, Nilsen masturbated as he knelt or sat alongside the corpse.
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