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Contents:

• 'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL
• THE CHILLG TE STORY OF DENNIS NILSEN – THE BARBARIC GAY SERIAL KILLER WHO HORRIFIED A NATN WH HIS SICKENG CRIM
• STEPHEN PORT: POLICE MA ASSUMPTNS ABOUT THE GAY MUNY, QUT HEARS
• STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV
• SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE
• STEPHEN PORT, SERIAL KILLER WHO DGGED GAY MEN, JAILED FOR LIFE
• THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.
• DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?
• LIFE TERM KILLGS OF 4 GAY MEN; POLICE FACE SCTY OVER EFFORTS

'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

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.

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 .

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

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. 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'. 16 Port ed gay chat s to meet his victims and lure them to his Barkg flatCred: SWNS:South Wt News Service.

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. 16 Jack Taylor met Stephen Port on a gay datg appCred: Badoo. Mr Walgate, 23, was a fashn stunt and gay rt.

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

Mr Kovari had a long term boyiend Thierry Amod Mallor, but was known to e gay datg apps. Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailThe Metropolan Police has nied that vtigative failgs that let a serial killer targetg gay men go ee were affected by the victims’ officers rejected the label of “stutnal homophobia” but admted a “lack of cultural awarens” while Stephen Port was trawlg Grdr for victims 2014 and had killed four men, and dgged and sexually asslted at least eight more, by the time he was qut jury led on Friday that police mistak “probably” ntributed to the aths of his Metropolan Police has issued formal apologi to the victims’ fai, and admted failgs the the force ni that “stutnal homophobia” affected the rponse, or that dividual vtigators were biased. Commanr Jon Savell, the head of profsnalism for vtigatns, told a prs nference: “We don’t thk the evince shows that the men’s sexualy played a part our rponse, other than a lack of awarens - that wasn’t jt on behalf of police London but natnally om police - over the e of GHB by gay men and the dangers of , and how n be ed as a weapon.

“We don’t see stutnal homophobia, we don’t see homophobia on the part of officers, we do see all sorts of errors the vtigatn which me together a tly dreadful way, ” she add. ”All of Stephen Port’s victims were gay, and their fai qutned whether their sexualy affected police vtigatns (PA)At the start of the quts to their aths, a lawyer reprentg the fai of Port’s victims said they wanted to know if their sexualy affected the police rponse.

“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, ” Neil Hudgell add.

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

Coroner Sarah Munro QC barred jurors om fdg that homophobia or discrimatn by police ntributed to the victims’ aths before they started their liberatns, addg: “I have led as a matter of law that those matters are not matters upon which you may exprs any views. 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. 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, 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.

SERIAL KILLER DOCERI 'LAST CALL' RECKONS WH NYC'S HISTORY OF ANTI-GAY VLENCE

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. Police are offerg a £20, 000 reward for rmatn as they ntue to vtigate a spected homophobic murr an east London cemetery.

A post-mortem examatn showed that Mr Kankanamalage, a gay man who had lived Tower Hamlets for many years, had died after beg stck on the head. Officers om the Met’s Specialist Crime Command are vtigatg his murr as a homophobic hate have offered a £20, 000 reward for any rmatn which uld lead to the intifitn and nvictn of Mr Kankanamalage’s Met said a statement tectiv had pursued leads wh the help of the lol muny but believe there may be key wns who have not yet e have also released imag of two men known to have been near the cemetery at the time of the attack and who they feel may hold rmatn which uld be ccial the image of a man police are lookg for as officers vtigate a spected homophobic murr Cred: Met PoliceThe first of the two possible wns is scribed as beg of medium build wh short, light-loured hair, and wearg a dark T-shirt, light-blue shorts, dark-brown traers and rryg a black send person is also of medium build but wh short dark hair and was wearg a dark jacket and dark image of a send man police want to trace Cred: Met Police"We unrstand that given the circumstanc of the murr, people may be reluctant to e forward, " said Detective Supertennt Pete Wallis, om the Met’s specialist crime mand.

After a new wns rpond to a te crime podst, a filmmaker and a tective Los Angel have been re-examg Dahmer's possible nnectn to the unsolved ath of a gay porn actor last seen on Halloween weekend 1990. He performed gay porn vios as Billy London and was a regular at Rage, a nightclub at the center of Wt Hollywood's gay was last seen at Rage on Oct. Details of Newton's ath certaly f Dahmer's method of killg — a young gay man killed and dismembered.

STEPHEN PORT, SERIAL KILLER WHO DGGED GAY MEN, JAILED FOR LIFE

She spects that many the gay muny of the early 1990s felt vilified and unfortable about talkg wh police over ncerns about their own volvement wh dgs, porn or sex work. "BiIly was LA's gay Black Dahlia, and no one's ever figured out, " Mason said, referrg to the 1947 mutilatn murr of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, one of the cy's olst, most publicized unsolved homicis. More than three s after a serial killer began preyg upon gay and bisexual men at bars New York Cy, the victims and their fai, as well as the activists who fought to brg the elive murrer to jtice, are the subjects of a four-part doceri that premier Sunday on HBO and Max.

Rogers was acquted a nonjury trial a few months leadg their own vtigatn to the victims wh sensivy, the creative team wanted to “peel back the onn of homophobia” by creatg the faiar feelg of most te-crime documentari — and then addg a queer twist, Caronna said. "By the time we get to 1973, I hope we set up enough so that the dience go, ‘Oh, my God, this is jt another example of extreme homophobia that allowed the murrs to keep happeng, ’” he said. Gertler said one of the big them of “Last Call” is “the way that stutnalized homophobia and transphobia works, and that was one of the most horrifyg thgs [they disvered] when we were dog our own diggg and reportg to the circumstanc around the 1973 murr and trial and the 1988 asslt and trial.

Port killed four men he met on gay datg s wh overdos of the sex-enhancg dg GHB. A serial killer who dgged and murred four men he met on gay datg s has been jailed for life. READ MORE: Did police homophobia fail serial killer’s victims?

THE GAY MEN FREQUENTED MANHATTAN PIANO BARS. SO DID THEIR KILLER.

READ MORE: Serial killer sought victims on gay datg s.

Dennis Nilsen, notor UK serial killer who murred gay men then drsed up their bodi, di prison. Chef acced of poisong and killg four men he met on gay datg app Grdr is charged wh attackg eight othersStephen Port, 41, is acced of murrg four men he met on datg appNow emerged he has also been charged wh attackg eight other victimsCharged wh 29 offenc total cludg murr, rape and sexual assltAlso charged wh admisterg a substance wh tent to overpower to allow sexual activy - Port plead not guilty to all of the unts Updated: 14:31 BST, 25 July 2016.

An alleged serial killer who is acced of murrg four young men he met on gay datg app Grdr has been charged wh attackg eight other victims. Stephen Port, 41, of Barkg, east London, is said to have killed his four victims wh fatal dos of the party dg GHB, known as liquid ecstasy, after vg them back to his flatPort was charged wh four unts of murr as well as four unts of admisterg a substance wh tent to stupefy or overpower to engage sexual activy agast the four alleged murr was also charged wh four alternative unts of n now be revealed Port has sce been charged wh seven unts of rape, six unts of admisterg a substance wh tent to overpower to allow sexual activy, and four unts of asslt by charg relate to another eight alleged victims said to have been attacked at Port's flat between Augt 2011 and October 2015 after meetg him on the gay datg se. Both victims — olr, whe-llar profsnal men, wh the heterosexual vtments of marriag and children — had last been seen at an upsle Midtown Manhattan gay piano bar lled the begs Elon Green’s terrific, harrowg, te-crime acunt of an elive serial killer who preyed upon gay men the 1990s, perfidly turng the safe havens of gay bars to huntg grounds, and semi-anonymo late-night hookups to an opportuny to kill wh impuny.

DID POLICE HOMOPHOBIA FAIL SERIAL KILLER’S GAY VICTIMS?

The most prolific serial killers explo the vulnerabili of the social orr; the “Last Call Killer” took advantage of gay men’s need for discretn and the enmic homophobia of law enforcement. Here was a generatn of men, more or ls, for whom was difficult to be visibly gay.

LIFE TERM KILLGS OF 4 GAY MEN; POLICE FACE SCTY OVER EFFORTS

Closeted gay people do, of urse, lead rich, satisfyg existenc, even if they leave fewer trac.

Gay men prsured to hi their sexualy at the height of the AIDS epimic are particularly sceptible to all-nsumg tragic seems to anticipate this journalistic nundm. Wh great passn, he wins his spe to explore the social value of gay bars to the queer muny and the val work of grass-roots groups like the New York Cy Anti-Vlence Project, which fought for fair treatment for gay crime victims durg a perd when they were often treated like reer crimals.

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