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Sick touts cashing in on serial killer Nilsen’s jail letters for £3k EACH

SICK touts are selling never- before-seen jail letters from serial killer Dennis Nilsen for nearly £3,000 each.

Sellers boast the notes are “quite rare” and the monster’s signature at the bottom makes them “more prestigious”.

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Nilsen leaving courtCredit: PA
One of the never-before-seen jail letters by Dennis Nilsen
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One of the never-before-seen jail letters by Dennis Nilsen

They even suggest the hand-written memos — in which Nilsen bleats to pals about his mail being confiscated by prison guards — would be an “amazing display piece”.

The website Serial Killers Ink is flogging the memos, scribbled by the Scots-born monster from his cell in Full Sutton nick, Yorkshire, along with their original envelopes.

In one letter, dated July 2010, Nilsen says of life behind bars: “Since I have been in prison probably 2,000 prisoners have suffered violent deaths.

“But publicity leads to a belief it is the lives of staff that are at risk.”

An October 2010 note talks of the death of actor Tony Curtis, who had six wives and played rapist and serial killer the Boston Strangler.

Three typewritten missives signed by the fiend have already sold for between £120 and £160. In one, about how his wax dummy was removed from Madame Tussauds, he admits “one’s effigy can be quite comfortable in the Chamber of Horrors”.

In another, he claims that he no longer had to “pretend to be something else” after his arrest.

Nilsen, born in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, died in jail at 72 in 2018.

He murdered and dismembered at least 12 boys and men in north London from 1978 to 1983.

Serial Killers Ink’s Eric Holler said: “Nilsen typed the majority of his correspondence, making these letters all the more desirable.”

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