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Contents:

• STEPHEN MERCHANT HS OUT AT POLICE AFTER PLAYG GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT FOUR LIV
• 'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL
• LAST CALL: BEHD THE TERRIFYG UNTOLD STORY OF NEW YORK'S GAY BAR KILLER
• VICTIMS OF GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT WERE FAILED BY ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ POLICE
• 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

Dennis Nilsen, notor UK serial killer who murred gay men then drsed up their bodi, di prison. 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 ntentThursday Augt 17 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.

'GAY SLAYER' SERIAL KILLER DI IN JAIL

Stephen Port who was found guilty at the Old Bailey, London of murrg four young gay men to fulfil his praved sexual fantasi. The most recent serial killer London's history, Port's murrs of four men have had a lastg impact on London's gay muny.

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.

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

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. GRINDR 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. 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.

VICTIMS OF GAY SERIAL KILLER STEPHEN PORT WERE FAILED BY ‘HOMOPHOBIC’ POLICE

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. 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. 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.

In fact, the se got so ltle attentn relative to s horror that today few remember , even wh the gay, three s after the murrs, journalist Elon Green has wrten a book tled Last Call: A Te Story of Love, Lt, and Murr Queer New York that go beyond the facts of the story to reveal the larger issu that surround them. Worse, that perd reprented the height of ignorance and fear about Aids, as well as the peak ath toll the gay muny the wt, greatly impactg how the muny was viewed.

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

“Aids took what was, at bt, a level of difference towards gay people and turned to revulsn, ” said Green.

Between 1987 and 1994 the cy saw a greater number of killgs than any other stretch more than half a that benighted era, gay bars were often ‘the one refuge om the perils of everyday life’, says Green. ’ Photograph: Wonwoo Lee/Getty Imag/Image SourceI n speak to the equency of vlence the gay muny back then. In that same time ame, a close iend was gay-bashed to unnscns by a gang of young men, g a days-long stay the hospal, and I was punched so hard the stomach outsi a gay dance club I thought the guy mt have ed a hammer.

Several years later, on a sunny day on Christopher Street (then the center of New York’s gay life), a man g an anti-gay ephet smashed my bt iend the head wh a rock. ”Meanwhile, the officer did story at the re of Last Call ptur a time the cy, and the liv of gay men, that seem far removed om the current one.