Share It’s a slap in the face. It’s as if he’s still laughing at us from beyond the grave, a friend close to a bereaved relative told the publication. When he died, this book should have died with him.
Graphic designer Mark Austin, from Bedfordshire, was nominated by Nilsen as his next of kin and he was handed all of his possessions when he died in May 2018.
Dennis Nilsen (right) leaves the Highgate Court in north London in 1983. The former civil servant died aged 72, in 2018
The possessions included typewritten notes which Nilsen made in prison as a category-A inmate.
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
The Department of Health and Social Security flagged up its suspicions on February 16, 1983, days after Nilsen was arrested after human remains were found in a drain running from his flat in Cranley Gardens, north London.
They noted: An officer in a local office recalled the name of an individual who had resided at the Melrose Avenue address. The case papers were brought out and it was seen that the person who had been on benefit had been a frequent visitor to the office but suddenly ceased to claim.
Dennis Nilsen killed as many as 15 men and youths between 1978 and 1983 (Image: PA)
For a time, he and Mick Avory shared a house near Cranley Gardens, where he also lived with the music journalist and Ready Steady Go! presenter Michael Aldred. “Me and Michael were close,” Davies says, “I guess he thought we fell in love. But I used to bring girls home all the time, and Michael got a bit pissed off!”
Davies says that his relationship with Aldred made him realise that he was fundamentally “a heterosexual man”. But he is open about his homosexual experiences and talks about his close friendships with other men, including blues singer Long John Baldry and Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones.