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Contents:

• STEPHEN PORT: POLICE MA ASSUMPTNS ABOUT THE GAY MUNY, QUT HEARS
• DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?
• STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV
• HUNDREDS JO TRIBUTE TO GAY MURR VICTIM
• GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER ACC POLICE OF FAILG TO LK EAST LONDON ATHS
• BRISH SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURRG FOUR GAY MEN
• DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA ALLOW A SERIAL KILLER TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR OVER A YEAR?
• 'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

STEPHEN PORT: POLICE MA ASSUMPTNS ABOUT THE GAY MUNY, QUT HEARS

Chef, 41, dumped his victim's bodi a graveyard near his east London flatPublished: 10:46, 23 Nov 2016Updated: 13:38, 24 Nov 2016GRINDR killer Stephen Port has been found guilty of murrg men he met through the gay datg app to fulfil his sexual fetish for 'twks'. Jonathan Re QC, prosecutg, said: "It is a se about a man, the fendant, who the pursu of nothg more than his own sexual gratifitn varly dgged, sexually asslted and killed young gay men who he had ved back to his flat.

"All of the offendg behavur was driven by one ma factor, namely the fendant's appete for havg sexual terurse wh younger, gay mal while they were unnsc through dgs. He me out as gay his worked terg at var plac his lol area and was workg as a chef for Stageach at their b pot Wt Ham when he mted his crim. Origally he lived wh a man he met on a gay datg webse south he was keen to move and Augt he said he had found a place to stay Kovari moved to Port's Cooke Street flat on 23 Augt.

Instead he found his boyiend on Facebook and pretend to be a 21-year-old gay porn star om California lled Jon Luck orr to get rmatn about the police Whworth. Three weeks after she found Gabriel Kovari's body the Barkg churchyard, on 20 September 2014 lol dogwalker Barbara Denham found another the same turned out to be Port's third murr victim, 21-year-old Daniel Whworth was a relatnship wh his partner Ricky Wmsley and they lived together Gravend, Kent, havg met on a gay datg was a chef and worked at up-market lotns London such as One Moate Place and Canary Whworth was signed up to another datg se at the time lled Flads and began talkg to Port on there on 18 didn't meet until a month later. He was not thought to be openly gay and had a number of girliends the days before he was found ad, he went out drkg at the Tradg Club he got back the early hours of 13 September, his father was still awake and wished him soon after that he had gone back out a taxi after matchg wh Port on the app rerds show Port had asked his victim if he had "ever taken T", referrg to crystal ptured Port and Mr Taylor meetg at Barkg statn the middle of the night.

DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?

Image source, FAMILY HANDOUTImage ptn, Daniel Whworth (l) photographed wh his father AdamPolice ma an assumptn about the gay muny when probg the murrs of four young gay men, an qut heard. He also killed three other young men the same Whworth's stepmother said a Met tective scribed GHB as a "dg ed gay circl". She scribed the statement as "discrimatory", addg that she believed "the police ma an assumptn about the gay muny" Whworth, 21, om Gravend, Kent, was found a churchyard near Port's flat Barkg, east London, metr om where Gabriel Kovari was found ad a few weeks before.

Image source, Met PoliceImage ptn, Daniel Whworth (left) and Gabriel Kovari were killed near-intil circumstanc ls than a month apartPolice vtigatg the aths of two gay men near-intil circumstanc should have engaged wh the LGBT muny, an qut has Wilson, puty borough manr for Barkg 2014, apologised for the "substandard" probe to the aths of Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Wilson was also forced to retract ments he ma that falsely implied both men were ers of was a dg which serial killer Stephen Port plied to murr the pair. Stephen Port who was found guilty at the Old Bailey, London of murrg four young gay men to fulfil his praved sexual fantasi.

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. “The killg of low e gay men workg class Barkg was treated very differently – police officers stand acced of class, genr and sexualy bias.

STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV

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. 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.

A solicor reprentg the fai said they believed the police's actns were "driven by homophobia" add the Met Police had "blood on their hands", and said: "It is time for them to be held acuntable. Officers also ma assumptns about the gay muny, jurors were 2019 the police watchdog, the Inpennt Office of Police Conduct (IOPC), cid no officers had a se to answer for misnduct or gross misnduct as a rult of the failur to tch the serial killer until after the fourth source, Met PoliceImage ptn, Stephen Port is servg a whole-life prison term for the four murrsNow, the IOPC has said that sce new rmatn heard at the qut had found "material flaws" s own quiry, had cid to re-open s vtigatn wh a new team place.

HUNDREDS JO TRIBUTE TO GAY MURR VICTIM

"A spokman for Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said the qualy of the Met's vtigatn to the murrs "raised a number of ncerns, particularly around homophobia" add: "It is val that London's LGBTQ+ muny has nfince our police and the Met are able to ga the tst and nfince of all the muni serv so that every Londoner, regardls of background or post n feel safe, protected and served. Stephen Merchant hs out at police after playg gay serial killer Stephen Port Four Liv We haven't been able to take paymentYou mt update your payment tails via My Acunt or by clickg update payment tails to keep your now to keep your subscriptnWe've tried to ntact you several tim as we haven't been able to take payment. Accsibily LksSkip to ntentFriday July 28 2023 Stephen Merchant has revealed how rearchg his latt role as the serial killer Stephen Port forced him to terrogate onscreen portrayals of “brilliantly clever” police -creator of The Office said that he had been eply upset to learn how long took the Metropolan Police to arrt Port, who dgged, raped and murred four young gay men between June 2014 and September 2015 and dumped their bodi near his flat Barkg, east this time Port was arrted, bailed, nvicted and jailed for lyg to the police about how he knew the first man but the aths were treated as dg overdos, rather than murrs, until the fourth body was found.

More than a thoand people gathered central London last night for a ndlel vigil for David Morley, a barman murred last weekend a homophobic attack on the South Bank by the Morley, a survivor of the Soho pub bombg 1999 which three people died, was battered to ath by a gang as he walked suffered 40 bis, a ptured spleen, actured ribs and died of his juri people have been arrted and qutned over the Morley, 37, of Chiswick, wt London, who was known to iends as "Crs", had been workg at the Admiral Dunn when the pub was targeted by a nail bomber, David Copeland, vigil St Anne's Garns, Soho, me as a send gay man remaed a "ser but stable" ndn after a stranger wh a knife tried to murr him on a London night 25-year-old was returng om a night out wh his partner at around 4am on Thursday when a fellow passenger stabbed him four tim a homophobic attack, police said. "The attacker had flicked food and shouted homophobic abe at the uple after gettg on the b Archway, north then tried to asslt them.

MPs are llg for a public quiry to claims of stutnal homophobia the Metropolan Police after an qut nclud that failur "probably" ntributed to the aths of victims of serial killer Stephen fai of the four young gay men killed by Port have renewed accatns that police prejudice played a part officers' failure to listen to their ncerns and rulted missed opportuni to tch the killer.

GAY RIGHTS MPAIGNER ACC POLICE OF FAILG TO LK EAST LONDON ATHS

Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25, were all plied wh fatal dos of the "date rape" dg GHB by Port, dubbed the "Grdr killer" for the way he suted his victims on the gay datg app. Dame Margaret Hodge said she and 17 other signatori had wrten to Met Commissner Dame Crsida Dick "to mand a public quiry nsirs whether the Met is stutnally homophobic" letter says: "The police have admted their mistak, stuted new protols, and emphasised that a lack of rourc was to blame. The letter nclus that is "imperative that a public quiry tak place urgently to nsir if stutnal homophobia played a role this se" and also not that of the 17 officers vtigated for misnduct, none were is backed up by the victims' fai.

A statement released on their behalf said: "Had four, whe, heterosexual girls been found ad the same manner as Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack, then the police's actns, and the likely out, would have been different, " they the 'Grdr killer' murred four men - and the missed chanc to stop him'A lany of failur'Officers nied accatns of prejudice and homophobia, stead blamg mistak on beg unrstaffed and lackg Friday, the qut jury found officers missed repeated opportuni to tch Port, 46, after he plied first his victim, Mr Walgate, wh a fatal dose of date-rape dg GHB and dumped his body.

BRISH SERIAL KILLER GETS LIFE SENTENCE FOR MURRG FOUR GAY MEN

The MPs' letter lists a "lany of failur" by police, cludg that the dividual aths were not properly vtigated bee "a prumptn was ma that the were young gay men, some of them 'rent boys', who were habual GHB ers and accintally overdosed" quts heard that officers failed to follow leads, murr tectiv turned down requts om borough officers to take over the vtigatns, and ncerns om the victims' fai were had seized Port's laptop after the ath of the first victim but failed to subm for forensic analysis for 10 months, and then missed repeated search for dg rape vios ntaed on the vice. However, roner Sarah Munro QC told jurors on Friday that they uld not fd that "prejudice or homophobia or discrimatn on the part of the police ma any ntributn to the aths".

Fay outrage over 'abomable' vtigatnMr Whworth's partner, Ricky Wmsley, lled for Ms Dick to rign "wh immediate effect" followg the jury's Whworth's stepmother Mandy told Sky News she believed stutnal homophobia the Met Police was "part of the recipe of disaster".

A proment gay rights mpaigner has acced Stland Yard of failg for over a year to nnect the aths of four young gay men who were dgged and murred before their bodi were dumped and around a churchyard east Tatchell said the force was told 10 months ago about ncerns wh the gay muny over a possible serial killer on the loose – but the police did not appear to have formally lked the aths until a fourth man was found ad siar circumstanc last rights activist Peter Tatchell.

DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA ALLOW A SERIAL KILLER TO TARGET GAY MEN FOR OVER A YEAR?

”He said the vtigatn “fell far short of thorough and robt” and said there need to be a full quiry to why the police “failed to nnect the dots and seek the help of the gay muny”. Brish serial killer Stephen Port was sentenced to life prison whout parole on Friday for the murrs of four young gay men whom he met onle.

The Inpennt Office for Police Conduct has announced is nsirg reopeng the vtigatn to the Metropolan Police handlg of the aths of Stephen Port’s qut to the aths of four young gay men killed by the dg-rape predator today found that police failur the origal vtigatn “probably” ntributed to the ath of his three other victims.

Police failed to lk Port to the killgs spe tective work rried out by the victims’ fai and iends that would lead them to the also mpaigned for answers as to why Port was not stopped sooner by police, fearg their ncerns would have been taken more serly if their sons hadn’t been today returned a ncln that Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old fashn stunt who did ocsnal rt work, was unlawfully Walgate, origally om Hull, went to meet Port Barkg on June 17 2014 and was not seen aga until his lifels body was disvered, outsi Port’s flat, the early hours of June was Port who ntacted the emergency servic, repeatedly changg his acunt of how he me to fd the young jury said failur the vtigatn to the ath of Mr Walgate “probably” ntributed to the ath of Gabriel Kovari, the send young gay man to die almost intil the se of the third victim, Daniel Whworth, a 21-year-old chef om Gravend Kent, jurors nclud that police failgs probably ntributed to his ath September also said omissns or failur the volvement of the Met’s Specialist Crime and Operatns officers, who lead homici vtigatns, probably ntributed to Mr Whworth’s jury also found that errors the Walgate, Whworth and Kovari prob “probably” ntributed to the ath of Port’s fal victim, Jack wrten nclns, jury acknowledged officers’ “heavy workload” but said there were failur that “nnot be overlooked” fai of Stephen Port’s victims at today’s qut at Barkg Town Hall, east London (Photo: Stefan Rose/PA Wire)The roner, Sarah Munro QC, told qut jurors she tend to wre a preventn of future aths said: “The quts, on any view, have raised a number of ser ncerns and I have ved submissns om legal reprentativ. ”The report will be published the new year, she fay members of Port’s victims said they were “censed” that jurors were not allowed to nsir whether homophobia played a part the said they wanted the police watchdog, the IOPC, to reopen s vtigatn to the handlg of the se, and were ncerned that officers volved the se had been Neil Hudgell, for the fai, said: “We ask the Prime Mister, Boris Johnson, and the Home Secretary, Pri Patel, how that n be right?

'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

”Mr Kovari’s iend, John Pape, mataed that “stutnal homophobia” played a Police assistant missner Helen Ball speaks to the media after the ncln Barkg Town Hall today (Photo: Stefan Rose/PA Wire)He told the PA news agency: “You have to hope prejudice did play a part.

“But I absolutely stand by that they were beg homophobic towards the four victims and makg general assumptns that they’re all young, gay men who take dgs. ”Mrs Sak lled for the police watchdog to reopen s vtigatn and for some police officers to be Police Assistant Commissner Helen Ball apologised for the failgs, but said: “I don’t thk the Met is stutnally homophobic.

He told me he was lookg to make a go of London and this ma sense, bee y, this cy attracts young gay men om other parts of the UK and Europe, 's seen as a tolerant, liberal place pared to others.