MURDER A CURRY
Nilsen’s saucepans on sale for £300
GRUBBY pots and pans once used by mass murderer Dennis Nilsen have gone up for sale.
Ghouls can pick up the kitchen essentials, which have decades-old food still stuck on them, for £300.
Nilsen, who was a trained chef, used to flog curries with a prison pal called Jimmy to make extra cash at HMP Wakefield – the West Yorkshire prison dubbed Monster Mansion.
The pans and a spatula are for sale on the Dark Crime Collectables website, which has personal items of some of the world’s most notorious killers. The pots and pans have been reduced from £400, with buyers told: “These two large pans (with lids) and frying pan (which is in a plastic bag as it still contains the remnants of its last dish, cooked in the mid-1990s) and a wooden spatula were used by Dennis Nilsen at HMP Wakefield in early 1985.”
Nilsen, who killed at least 12 young men and boys between 1978 and 1983, boasted about his prison cooking in autobiography, History of a Drowning Boy.
He wrote: “In constructing some measure of stability and economic viability into our partnership, Jimmy and I started a business making and selling
curry. I would concentrate on the production and he would handle the ordering of supplies and the financial side. I was, after all, a trained chef and could produce saleable goods.
“We built up a regular clientele and were able to make £9 a week, on top of our workshop wages, to spend in the canteen. The authorities would, again, turn a blind eye so long as it didn’t pose any threat to the stability of the wing.”
Nilsen, a former police officer and JobCentre worker, lured gay men back to two flats in north London – one in Cricklewood and the other in Muswell Hill, where he was caught.
He killed them, chopped them up and, it is believed, ate some body parts. Nilsen died from cancer in 2018, aged 72.