THE SAVAGE 70S
Jul 16, 2020
3 minutes
The Scots sadist
Born in Fraserburgh in 1945, Dennis Nilsen recognised that he had homosexual desires from a young age.
However, he was never comfortable with his sexuality.
Instead, he began to act on his desire through murder and dismemberment.
Nilsen met his first victim, 14-year-old Stephen Holmes, on 30 December 1978 in a London pub.
After inviting him home, he strangled the boy with a tie before drowning him in a bucket of water.
Nilsen then washed Holmes’ corpse and attempted to have sex with it, before hiding it under the
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