Man arrted on spicn of murrg gay victim London cemetery | PkNews

Contents:

• STEPHEN PORT: POLICE MA ASSUMPTNS ABOUT THE GAY MUNY, QUT HEARS
• MAN ARRTED ON SPICN OF MURRG GAY VICTIM LONDON CEMETERY
• 'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• HUNDREDS JO TRIBUTE TO GAY MURR VICTIM
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

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

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. 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.

MAN ARRTED ON SPICN OF MURRG GAY VICTIM LONDON CEMETERY

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.

'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

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. A few of the search terms he ed that day were: "sleepg boy", "unnsc boys", "dgged and raped", "takg date rape dg", "gay teen knocked out raped" and "guy raped and tortured young nu boy".

Aged 16, Stephen went to art llege, but proved too expensive for his parents and he spent two years trag as a chef found kchen work at lol bs, events and weddgs, before eventually settlg at Wt Ham b pot where he oked for drivers and me out as gay his mid-twenti. In early 2012 a stunt his late teens spent a night wh Port after they met on the gay datg app first imprsns after beg llected at Barkg statn was that Port "was que pole, iendly, nothg that would rg any alarm bells to me", the man later told Port's the flat, Port put on an animated film the lounge and offered a small glass of red we that "tasted bter, which I attributed to beg cheap" drkg the we, the stunt "noticed a sludge the bottom of the glass".

He exprsed alarm and advised him to ntact gay newspaper PkNews, which has said cid not to n a story after police sisted the aths were not January 2015, Port was charged wh pervertg the urse of jtice for lyg about the circumstanc of Anthony Walgate's plead guilty at Snarbrook Crown Court Febary and appeared for sentencg at the same urt a month prosecutor said: "There is no suggtn that Mr Port bore any crimal rponsibily for the ath of the young man. Jenny Taylor says he was "always sg, always lghg" but was also "very lovg and rg" brother had had several girliends and was not openly gay, but ed the datg app Grdr as a way of meetg the early hours of Saturday 13 September 2015 he left a lol social club after a night of drkg and went spent some time browsg the ter and jt before 02:00 was ntacted on Grdr by Stephen cid to meet at Barkg statn at 36 hours he was found body was propped agast the other si of the graveyard wall om the spot where Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whworth were found.

LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER

“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. 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. Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah.

Image ptn, Stephen Port's victims (L-R): Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whworth and Jack TaylorHomophobia has been led out as an issue the quts for the victims of serial killer Stephen gave four men fatal dos of "date rape" dg GHB and left their bodi near his flat Barkg, east London. A hearg is lookg at whether the vtigatn to the first murr - which was not treated as spic - ntributed to the other three jury was told discrimatn and homophobia were "matters on which you may not exprs any views" quts have prevly heard that police ignored suggtns that the aths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whworth and Jack Taylor were nnected, spe signifint siari.

HUNDREDS JO TRIBUTE TO GAY MURR VICTIM

A day earlier, a uple lled Rob and Patrick were attacked wh broken bottl Birmgham’s gay village, leavg one unnsc and the other wh extensive cuts. Three men have been arrted on spicn of robbery and 30 July, Edburgh, a married gay uple were punched, kicked and spat at as they walked down a by cy centre street.

Three men have been charged nnectn wh alleged asslts and homophobic Liverpool, durg Pri month, hundreds of people joed a prott on 22 June after at least three street attacks on young men wh the space of a few activists and natnal mpaigners have told the Guardian that this spate of attacks across the UK, while unnnected, unrsr a climate of fear endured by the LGBTQ+ muny on the 2015, hate crim related to sexual orientatn and genr inty have creased year on year, acrdg to ernment data for England, Wal and Stland. In the year to March 2020 England and Wal, sexual orientatn hate crim rose by 19% to 15, 835, and transgenr inty hate crim by 16% to 2, 540 – averagg more than 50 reports each Misra, the associate director of mpaigns at the LGBTQ+ rights chary Stonewall, said: “The recent cints Edburgh, Birmgham, Liverpool and London are a stark remr that 2021, lbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people do not feel safe to be ourselv. “Tradnally, homophobic and transphobic hate crim have been signifintly unrreported, ” he said, though he argued that the work of LGBTQ+ liaison officers wh specific rponsibily for buildg muny lks was among iativ that were payg off.

Lawrence Barton, the director of Birmgham Pri, who ns a number of venu the gay district, said: “There has been an crease this type of activy, lolly and natnally. “I’m out regularly the gay district on a weekend, and staggers me how many people e out wh homophobic remarks, shout om their r wdows and make ments as they’re walkg past, ” he said he was “disappoted wh the rced amounts of police prence” the area, although Wt Midlands police said they have recently creased high-visibily patrols and wanted to reassure anyone who is targeted that their report would be treated wh preventg attacks was important, Barton said tacklg the wir problem of homophobic views is his biggt ncern.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

”LGBTQ+ hate crim do not often make headl, said Diva Campo, a drag queen om Manchter, who said she was aware of a number of recent asslts the cy, cludg one of a transgenr Campo, who spearhead fundraisg efforts after LGBTQ+ murals the cy’s gay village were faced at the end of June, said: “I’m very aware that the atmosphere and environment on the street is much more hostile. I thought I was never gog to see my dghter aga, " he said, rellg the trmatic homophobic asslt - an attack based on prejudice agast LGBT people - was part of a surge such s over the past five figur obtaed by the BBC om all 45 police forc the UK reveal that the number of reported homophobic hate crime s almost trebled - om 6, 655 2014-15, the year same sex marriage beme legal England, to 18, 465 2019-20.

In the past year, there has been a 20% rise reports to police of homophobic hate crime, acrdg to the data which was obtaed through Freedom of Informatn requts. "A hate crime is a crimal offence that is motivated by "hostily or prejudice" towards someone bee of factors such as their race or relign or their sexual means prosecutors n apply to the urt to crease the offenr's s of hate crim based on sexual orientatn seem to have been creasg many Wt Yorkshire, such crim rose om 161 2014-15 to 1, 093 2019-20Merseysi s rose om 65 to 678 the same yearsEssex om 97 to 533London's Metropolan Police saw reports rise om 1, 549 to 3, 013Greater Manchter Police saw reports rise om 423 to 1, 231Hertfordshire police rerd 176 such crim 2018-19, which rose to 495 2019-2020 Northamptonshire police rerd 82 and 177 same perdsCharlie Graham, a 21-year-old om Sunrland, says homophobic hate crime is jt a part of life. One of Bra's worst serial killers has been found ad jail, nearly 20 years after torturg five gay men to Ireland, 57, was known as the "gay slayer" after scg his homosexual victims London pubs.

"Ireland was given a whole life tariff 1993 after he admted the murrs, rried out after he posed as a gay man orr to be taken to each of his victims' hom. In May 2007, a report by the pennt Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr Advisory Group found that the Metropolan Police quiry was "hampered" report poted to a lack of knowledge of the gay scene London. In fact, the people who were most at risk – this se, gay men who met for hook-ups at New York Cy bars that served the muny – were given no staed or amplified warngs by eher the thori or the media, creatg a safe space for the murrer to ntue to wreak havoc.