Where was Dennis Nilsen’s house?

DENNIS Nilsen was one of Britain's most notorious mass murderers.

In public Nilsen seemed like any other man going about his daily life, but behind closed doors he was hiding a grisly secret.

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Where was Dennis Nilsen's houses?

Dennis Nilsen lived at 195 Melrose Avenue in Cricklewood, in a ground floor flat with access to the land behind.

This is where he admitted to killing twelve young men and boys.

Nilsen hid their bodies under the floorboards of the property.

He later removed the last five bodies and burned them when asked to leave the flat.

He then moved to Cranley Gardens in Muswell Hill where he killed a further three men before dissecting them and flushing the parts down the toilet.

It was at this location that the bones were found after Nilsen himself complained that the drains were blocked.

Where did Dennis Nilsen work?

As a teenager, he served as a cook in the army and remained in the role for 11 years but would then work in a London job centre, which was his occupation during his killing spree.

At the age of 15, Nilsen decided to join the army.

He signed up in Aberdeen, transferred to Aldershot and completed a three-year training period with the army catering corps, including a course in butchery.

Nilsen spent the best part of a decade travelling the world - he went to West Germany with the City of London regiment before serving in Yemen and Cyprus.

He returned to Scotland, in Ballater, to cook for the Queen’s Guard at the Victoria Barracks .

His next job was at the Metropolitan Police in London, but he stayed on for just 11 months.

Following a short spell as a security guard, he became a civil servant working for Manpower Services Commission in several job centres around London.

Are Dennis Nilsen's houses still there?

Nilsen's houses of horrors are still there.

Unlike Fred and Rosemary West's house which was torn down because of their crimes, Dennis' homes have actually been renovated.

Today they look much the same from the street — but inside, the Cricklewood residence is unrecognisable after being given a stunning Grand Designs-style makeover by its new owners.

The Sun revealed how undaunted first-time buyers Bruno and Mathilde were not put off by its grisly past and have transformed it into their dream home — and now plan to start a family there.

They even grow fruit and vegetables in the garden where Nilsen once burned piles of corpses and raked the bones into the soil.

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Des is written by Luke Neal and Kelly Jones.

It is based on material from the book Killing For Company by Brian Masters.