Police officer nvicted of killg gay lover - May 23, 2005

Contents:

• DATELE TAILS SE OF MARRIED P WHO KILLED HIS SECRET GAY LOVER
• GAY EAST POT OFFICER ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY EX-GIRLIEND
• XAVIER JUGELé, 37, OFFICER KILLED PARIS, WAS DEFENR OF GAY RIGHTS

DATELE TAILS SE OF MARRIED P WHO KILLED HIS SECRET GAY LOVER

Durg his vtigatn, Short was ntacted by a man named Andy Schermerhorn - a Universy of Missouri stunt who revealed that he and the openly gay Valencia had a 'iends wh benefs' relatnship. Rs wife, Libby, stood by her hband spe the fact he admted to the gay affair.

Amazgly, Rs wife, Libby, stood by her hband spe the fact he admted to the gay affair. I want people to unrstand that she was gay and I don’t thk people are graspg that ncept. 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.

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. Accatns of homophobia.

GAY EAST POT OFFICER ALLEGEDLY KILLED BY EX-GIRLIEND

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.

XAVIER JUGELé, 37, OFFICER KILLED PARIS, WAS DEFENR OF GAY RIGHTS

Fai sist homophobia Met police.

"The key qutn everyone is askg is yet to be answered - whether stutnal homophobia the Met played a role the vtigatns. 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. 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".

"I thk there's an element of homophobia, but I also believe was habual, " she said. The untold story of the murr of a gay police officer Northern Ireland 1997 and how the LGBT muny fought back agast prejudice and adversy durg the Troubl.