Carl Stottor: Last News

Dennis Nilsen 's escaped victim Carl Stottor during questioning in Wednesday's final episode on ITV.

ITV’s crime drama Des, starring David Tennant as serial killer Dennis Nilsen.In tonight’s episode the court case of Nilsen, who confessed to killing 15 men in London between 1978 and 1983, will start.One of the key witnesses in the case Douglas Stewart – a man who managed to escape the serial killer’s clutches.Another man, called Carl Stottor, also said Nilsen had attempted to strangle him.Douglas testified first, explaining how he narrowly avoided becoming one of the deceased victims himself in November 1980.Scottish barman Douglas said that he had woken in Nilsen’s flat to find his ankles were bound.The serial killer was strangling him while on top of him while he was sitting in a chair.But the 29-year-old managed to overpower Nilsen

Dennis Nilsen in the ITV drama Des.The sadistic murderer is believed to have murdered as many as 15 boys and young men in London.But during his trial at the Old Bailey, Nilsen admitted killing 15 men, but difficulty identifying victims meant he was convicted of six murders and two attempted murders.Almost all of them were homosexual and homeless, and he would play the part of a kind stranger offering them food and lodgings.Nilsen went undetected for five years, between 1978 and 1983, before he was arrested in Feburary, 1983.Now the show creators are determined to serve justice to his victims.One of the victims who features in the drama series is Carl Stottor – who escaped the clutches of Nilsen alive.Carl Stottor was a drag artist who very