murder young men and get away with it, his former boss has revealed. Iain Mackinnon, who was Nilsen's manager at a London job centre in 1980, said the Scot had spoken in the office about how nobody would notice if a "rootless young man" was picked up in a bar and killed.
The comments were heard by Mr McKinnon's wife but were dismissed at the time as "just another rant" from Nilsen about the state of the country at the time under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
Nilsen, originally from Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, was jailed at the Old Bailey in 1983 after being convicted of six charges of murder and two of attempted murder.He claimed to have killed 15 men and boys, whom he had befriended in pubs before luring them to homes in north London,.
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