{"id":11365,"date":"2018-05-12T19:06:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11365"},"modified":"2018-05-12T19:06:44","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T23:06:44","slug":"dennis-nilsen-serial-killer-dies-in-prison-aged-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/05\/12\/dennis-nilsen-serial-killer-dies-in-prison-aged-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Nilsen: Serial killer dies in prison aged 72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who admitted killing at least 15 people in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Nilsen, 72, was jailed in 1983 with a recommendation he serve at least 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The former civil servant murdered and dismembered several of his victims, most of them homeless young gay men, at his home in Muswell Hill, north London.<\/p>\n<p>He was convicted of six counts of murder and two of attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>The Prison Service said Nilsen died at HMP Full Sutton near York.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman added: &#8220;As with all deaths in custody, there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nilsen lured his victims to his flat and, on many occasions, would sit with their bodies for days before he dismembered them.<\/p>\n<p>His crimes were only discovered after a neighbour noticed nearby drains were blocked. An inspection found pipes packed with human flesh.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-44097196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who admitted killing at least 15 people in the 1970s and 1980s, has died in prison. Nilsen, 72, was jailed in 1983 with a recommendation he serve at least 25 years. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/05\/12\/dennis-nilsen-serial-killer-dies-in-prison-aged-72\/\" title=\"Dennis Nilsen: Serial killer dies in prison aged 72\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,4],"tags":[5135,5136,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-11365","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-uk","10":"tag-dennis-nilsen","11":"tag-hmp-full-sutton","12":"tag-serial-killer","13":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11367,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11365\/revisions\/11367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}