David Aubrey Llewellyn Bowen (31 January 1924 – 31 March 2011) was a Welsh

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. He studied medicine at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was involved in the

Dennis Nilsen Dennis Andrew Nilsen (23 November 1945 – 12 May 2018) was a Scottish serial killer and necrophile who murdered at least twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. Convicted at the Old Bailey of six counts of murder and two o ...

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John Duffy and David Mulcahy John Francis Duffy (born 1958) and David Mulcahy (born 1959) are two British serial rapists and serial killers who together attacked numerous women and children at railway stations in southern England during the 1980s. Their crimes are often ref ...

, the murder of PC Keith Blakelock and the death of the financier

Roberto Calvi Roberto Calvi (13 April 1920 – 17 June 1982) was an Italian banker, dubbed "God's Banker" () by the press because of his close association with the Holy See. He was a native of Milan and was chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, which collapsed in ...

In popular culture

Bowen was portrayed by

Jonathan Coy Jonathan Coy (born 24 April 1953, in Hammersmith, London) is a British actor. He has worked since 1975 largely in television, notably as Henry in the long-running legal series '' Rumpole of the Bailey'' and as Bracegirdle in the television ser ...

in ''

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'', a 2020 docudrama focusing on Dennis Nilsen.

References

1924 births 2011 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge Welsh pathologists Fellows of the Royal College of Pathologists Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Forensic pathologists British forensic scientists {{Wales-bio-stub