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Serial killer Dennis Nilsen slit lag's throat as 'favour' in twisted escape plan
Dennis Nilson cut a fellow prisoner’s throat in order to help him escape, it has emerged.He convinced another inmate that if he attempted suicide, he would be sectioned and moved to a hospital, which would give him a greater chance of escaping.The fellow inmate couldn’t go through with it in the end, which led Nilsen to take the knife and do it for him.After the event, Steven Cook, who served 17 years for murder, then spent six months on a wing with Nilsen, who killed 12 boys and men in a five-year reign of terror. But didn’t know Nilsen’s identity until recently, reports the Daily Record.The 46-year-old, who was released from Durham prison in 2012, said he met the man he knew as “Dessie” in 1994 in the hospital wing of the prison while on remand awaiting trial.Cook was just 18 when he took part in a shocking attack during which victim Derek Lee was stabbed through the heart and blasted with a shotgun outside The Coxlodge pub in Newcastle.He said he was struggling with mental health when Nilsen took him under his wing, who Cook said he liked how he was 'anti-authority'.Cook said he had been struggling with “what he had become”, felt remorse for his part in the murder, and that there was no chance at redemption for what he had done.He said: “I was suicidal.
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