
Des — Miniseries

On February 9th, 1983, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Jay made a grim discovery: a drain choked with decaying flesh and bone. The perpetrator, Dennis Nilsen, offered the police a chilling confession, stating matter-of-factly that the conte…

Struggling with scarce resources, Jay and the police persist in probing Nilsen’s recollections, striving to secure a conviction for the deaths of each of his victims. However, when Des retracts his assistance and ceases to speak, Jay fears …

The shift in Des’s plea left Jay and the police scrambling to establish premeditation. Their focus narrowed: to demonstrate beyond doubt that Des had been of sound mind at the time of his offenses. Proof of this would ensure his conviction …


