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DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA ALLOW A SERIAL KILLER TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR OVER A YEAR?
He me out as gay when he was 26-years-old, Sharon said, and their mother had taken the news badly. Port ed datg apps like Grdr to seek out young gay men, before brgg them back to his apartment for sex. The Grdr killer murred four young, gay men before beg ught by police.
Police have been acced of bunglg the vtigatn bee the victims were gay. “Yet they’ve always wonred about whether there would have been a different oute if the police had vtigated Port properly and taken their ncerns serly, and if their boys hadn’t been gay.
However, the Coroner had led the jury out of nsirg police homophobia as an issue the se. The fai said that the se should go on public rerd as “one of the most wispread stutnal failur morn history” and that the Metropolan Police’s actns were, part, “driven by homophobia” – somethg the police ny. Sarah Sak said the jurors’ ncln was a “massive victory” but she was “disappoted” they were not allowed to nsir homophobia.