The flat where a notorious north-east serial killer murdered and dismembered his victims has been put up for sale – with no mention of its chequered past.
Fraserburgh-born Dennis Nilsen is serving a full-life sentence at maximum security HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire for the murder of 15 men in London between 1978 and 1983.
Now the home in London’s Muswell Hill district, where he carried out his final three murders and was eventually caught out, has gone on the market with a £350,000 price tag.
Police were finally called to 23 Cranley Gardens after neighbours complained about foul smells coming from the drains.
A workman made the grim discovery of hunks of rotting human flesh clogging up the pipes.
The property was sold last year for £250,000 with a warning from estate agents Bairstow Eves that potential buyers should “research its history”.
It has now been put back on the market – following renovation and with a £100,000 mark-up – by estate agents Day Morris and Barnard Marcus.
The sales pitch says the flat has a balcony with “glorious” panoramic views and goes on to describe it as a “bright top-floor apartment within an attractive Edwardian property”.
But the estate agent claimed to have no idea of the home’s past.
Richard Evans from Day Morris said: “In that case I’ve under-priced it. Seriously, we were unaware. I don’t see the importance of it – it happened 25, 30 years ago.”
Nilsen was born and brought up in the Buchan communities of Fraserburgh and Strichen, before he moved to London.
After meeting his often-homeless victims in pubs, he lured them to his homes at Cricklewood and Muswell Hill, where he killed them then carried out bizarre rituals.
The bodies were dismembered and either burned or buried, although Nilsen later resorted to flushing parts down the toilet.
The killer has written his autobiography – which the Home Office has banned from publication – in jail and taken part in a number of documentaries
In 2012, it emerged he had devised a method of allowing blind children to read charts and graphs.