Here’s an online food offer to turn anyone’s stomach.
Ghouls are being offered the chance to snap up pots and pans used by serial killer Dennis Nilsen, from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, to rustle up prison curries.
The seller even boasts that the cookware has traces of his grub.
Nilsen – a trained chef – used to flog curries cooked in the pans with a prison pal called Jimmy to make extra cash at HMP Wakefield, dubbed Monster Mansion.
Takers have been understandably slow to bite – so the asking price has been slashed from £400 to £300. That gets you cookware and a spatula used for Nilsen’s curry club.
The sale is via a website stocking personal items of killers. Nilsen boiled parts of his victims’ bodies to get rid of the flesh.
Buyers are 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-90s) and a wooden spatula were used by Dennis Nilsen at HMP Wakefield in early 1985.”
Nilsen boasted about his cookery 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 over the weekends.
“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 about £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.”
The Muswell Hill Murderer, who worked in a job centre before he was exposed, killed at least a dozen males at his two homes in north London.
He died in prison of cancer, aged 72, in 2018.
Nilsen claimed his first victim in 1978, when 14-year-old Stephen Holmes came to his flat, drank until he fell asleep and stayed the night.
A year later he killed 23-year-old Canadian student Kenneth Ockenden after offering to show him the sights of London.
His final victim was 20-year-old Stephen Sinclair, who went back to Nilsen’s flat in 1983 with the promise of alcohol and a look at his record collection.
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