Des is a true-crime drama focusing on one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history – Dennis Nilsen. Known as the ‘kindly killer’, Nilsen was a local civil servant who spent five years murdering boys and young men he met on the streets of Soho from 1978 to 1983. Caught on February 9th, 1983, Nilsen had murdered a total of fifteen men over a period of five years.
Des
Des is a true-crime drama focusing on one of the most infamous serial killers in UK history –Dennis Nilsen. Known as the ‘kindly killer’, Nilsen was a local civil servant who spent five years murdering boys and young men he met on the streets of Soho from 1978 to 1983. He would meet and befriend these men before offering them food or lodgings for the evening back at his North London flat. His victims were often homeless or living off-grid, having slipped through the cracks of 1980s society, and were therefore welcoming of this stranger’s apparent generosity. When he was finally caught on February 9th, 1983, Nilsen had murdered a total of fifteen men over a period of five years, making him Britain’s most prolific serial killer at the time.
