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My best mate Des

Andrea Kubinova, 30, Barnet

Dusting under the cards along my mantelpiece, I smiled as I reached the centrepiece.

A pair of brown-rimmed spectacles. Holding the frame between my fingertips, I delicately polished the lenses.

‘Oh, how I miss you,’ I sighed, stroking the ceramic urn beside them.

But the cards, specs and ashes weren’t mementos of a lost parent or other elderly relative.

They’d once belonged to a man many considered a monster, one of the vilest serial killers to ever stalk Britain.

My best friend Des.

It was 2014 when I first heard about Dennis Nilsen.

‘Try reading this,’ my friend suggested, lending me a

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