Did police homophobia fail serial killer's gay victims? | CNN

Contents:

• THE CHILLG TE STORY OF DENNIS NILSEN – THE BARBARIC GAY SERIAL KILLER WHO HORRIFIED A NATN WH HIS SICKENG CRIM
• DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?
• 'GAY SLAYER’ SERIAL KILLER TORTURED HIS VICTIMS AND THEN SPENT THE NIGHT WH THE AD BODI SO AS NOT TO AROE SPICN

THE CHILLG TE STORY OF DENNIS NILSEN – THE BARBARIC GAY SERIAL KILLER WHO HORRIFIED A NATN WH HIS SICKENG CRIM

D, starrg David Tennant as Nilsen, explor the life of the gay serial killer and necrophile known to a generatn as the Mwell Hill Murrer, after the north London suburb where he mted his crim.

The three-part seri tak s name om the nickname Nilsen ed to make himself seem more approachable to his victims: young men and boys, many of whom were gay and homels. As a teenager, he realised he was gay, but his sexual orientatn left him nfed and ashamed, so he attempted to supprs . Dennis Nilsen was jailed for life 1983 after a horrific six-year spree which saw him kill at least 12 men and boys and attempt to kill seven others, most of whom were gay or homels.

Police unr vtigatn for handlg of the se, ncern homophobia at play.

DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?

Over 15 months, Stephen Port, a 41-year-old chef om a workg class east London borough dgged, raped, and killed four gay men he met on datg apps.

After drkg wh iends a lol gay club, he went home and saw his father, before hookg up wh Port on gay datg app Grdr and takg a taxi to his flat. Leadg gay rights activist Peter Tatchell qutned whether homophobia and class played a role police nduct. “The killg of low e gay men workg class Barkg was treated very differently – police officers stand acced of class, genr and sexualy bias.

Crimologist Wilson agreed that the se had “a great al to do wh the persistence of homophobia generally and wh the police. Prosecutors said Port targeted victims on Grdr and other gay datg s and apps, then plied them wh drks laced wh fatal amounts of the dg GHB, or gamma hydroxybutyrate, otherwise known as liquid ecstasy.

'GAY SLAYER’ SERIAL KILLER TORTURED HIS VICTIMS AND THEN SPENT THE NIGHT WH THE AD BODI SO AS NOT TO AROE SPICN

Cohen believ another reason why police may have overlooked the serial killer’s volvement, was “bee of the e of the dg GHB and s prevalence among the gay muny. “It’s que a problem the gay muny London, of people g the dgs chemsex, ” he said of the group sex ssns often anized through datg apps.

Stephen Port who was found guilty at the Old Bailey, London of murrg four young gay men to fulfil his praved sexual fantasi. The most recent serial killer London's history, Port's murrs of four men have had a lastg impact on London's gay muny.

Stephen Port murred four young gay men to fulfil his praved sexual fantasi. As he olly told police that he had murred five gay men bee he had taken the cisn to be a serial killer one New Year's Eve, Col Ireland gave what he thought was a credible explanatn for his mpaign of btaly. Former soldier Ireland beme known as the 'gay slayer', reportedly posg as a homosexual to be taken to each of his victims' hom, where he tortured and murred them the summer of 1993.