DATING APP MURDERS - Who is Stephen Port, who were the victims of the Grindr serial killer

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    Stephen Port lied to police, disposed of his victim’s mobile phones and planted a fake suicide note on one victim which took the blame for the death of another.

    Port will spend the rest of his life in prison after receiving a whole-life sentence at the Old Bailey in London.

    Who is Stephen Port?

    Stephen Port, who was trained as a chef, has previously been reported to have worked as a rent boy.

    He featured in an episode of Celebrity Masterchef two years ago, wearing chef's whites and mingling with famous faces.

    The killer, now 41, helped celebrity chefs make pasta and meatballs for more than 100 bus drivers in an episode broadcast in 2014.

    He is thought to have worked at the West Ham bus garage for more than 10 years.

    The Daily Mail reported one ex-boyfriend said he also worked in door-to-door sales, and he had just started a new job stocktaking before his arrest.

    Port also claimed to have spent time as a special needs teacher at a catering college in King's Cross and to have served in the Royal Navy.

    After his arrest his parents said these claims, and that of his status as an Oxford University graduate, was false.

    His mother said his school thought her son was deaf because he didn't "speak up".

    Throughout the trial the court heard Port, of Cooke Street, Barking, east London, was obsessed with "drug rape" pornography and this led him to drug and sexually assault gay men.

    He was a frequent user of the gay dating app Grindr, and would meet men using this app and other sites over the course of more than three and a half years.

    Who were Stephen Port's victims?
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    Jack Taylor was killed by Stephen Port after the pair met on a gay dating app
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    21-year-old chef Daniel Whitworth was found dead with an forged suicide note in a churchyard near Port's home
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    22-year-old Slovakian national Gabriel Kovari was also killed by Port
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    Fashion student Anthony Walgate was the first to be found dead
    He is guilty of the murder of Anthony Walgate, Jack Taylor, Daniel Whitworth and Gabriel Kovari, with an overdose of date-rape drug GHB.

    Anthony Walgate was a student who had dreams of being a famous fashion designer.

    Port had pleaded guilty to perverting the course of justice in relation Mr Walgate's death and was sentenced to eight months imprisonment.

    But, by the time he was jailed Port had gone on to claim the lives of two young men.

    Slovakian Mr Kovari, 22, and 21-year-old chef Mr Whitworth, from Gravesend, in Kent, were murdered within weeks of each other in August and September 2014.

    Both, like Mr Walgate, had died of GHB poisoning and were found in an almost identical position in St Margaret’s churchyard - near Port's flat in Barking.

    Port killed again just three months after being released from prison, in September 2015, when night shift forklift truck driver Jack Taylor, 25, was found near the same churchyard.


    The families of the victims have since spoken out, slamming "homophobic" police for failing to link the deaths of the four young men.

    A relative of Anthony told the BBC for the programme How Police Missed The Grindr Killer: “I totally believe that the Barking and Dagenham police that investigated Anthony’s death and the others are homophobic.

    “I genuinely believe that if Anthony had been a girl left outside like trash they would’ve put a lot more effort into it, a lot more effort. As they were all young boys, they did nothing.”

    An IPCC investigation was launched into the Metropolitan Police’s handling of the response to the four deaths, this is still ongoing.

    The mother of Jack said: “Stephen Port took Jack’s life but they let that happen as far as we’re concerned.

    “They are just as guilty as him, they should be held accountable for his death as they could’ve prevented it and we have to live with that for the rest of our lives.”

    Why is Stephen Port known as the Grindr serial killer?
    Port met his victims on the dating app Grindr.

    After his arrest he was dubbed the Grindr serial killer.

    He filmed himself having sex with unconscious men, was obsessed with drug-rape pornography, and was attracted to smaller, boyish-type men known as 'twinks'.

    Port drugged his victims by spiking their drinks or injecting them in the anus with drugs which he claimed were lubrication.

    In total, 12 men are said to have been attacked by Port over three-and-a-half years, between 2012 and 2015, four of which died of an overdose of the party drug GHB.

    Port denied four counts of murder, four counts of manslaughter, four counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm, seven counts of rape, six counts of administering a substance with intent to overpower to allow sexual activity, and four counts of sexual assault by penetration.

    What is GHB - gammahydroxybutyrate?
    Gammahydroxybutyrate (GHB), otherwise known as the date rape drug, was used by Stephen Port during the string of horrific murders targeting young gay men.

    The drug can be used as a general anaesthetic but due to its stimulating, addictive properties, has also become a known party drug.

    It can make a user feel numb or groggy, as well as leaving them with little ability to recall events while under the influence of the drug.

    It was made illegal in 2003, with a derivative GBL then being manufactured before it was made illegal as well in 2009.

    Met Police announced last year that it would examine more than 50 deaths related to the drug after the conviction of serial killer Stephen Port, BBC reported.

    Who is Stephen Port, who were the victims of the Grindr serial killer and what is the drug GHB?
     
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