All language subtitles for Britains.Most.Evil.Killers.S02E03.WEBRip.en

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-On September the 14th,
2015, 25-year-old

Jack Taylor was found dead
in the graveyard

of St. Margaret's Church
in East London.

Jack's devastated family
immediately suspected

he had been murdered.

-We'd said to each other that,

"If that's where
Jack has been found,

someone has put him there

because Jack would never go
and sit anywhere like that.

He's not like that."

-And their suspicions
were right.

An active serial killer
was on the loose in London.

-Young men in their 20s had
been murdered in East London,

and their bodies had been found
in unexplained circumstances,

all within a few hundred
yards of each other.

-The killer was a 40-year-old
loner named Stephen Port.

He'd lured four young men
to their deaths

using online dating sites

and went to great lengths
to cover up his crimes.

-I suspect he would've gone on
killing without any hesitation

for as long as he could've
got away with it.

-Stephen Port had been unmasked

as one of the world's
most evil killers.

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It was a crime that shocked
the nation

and left Britain's LGBT
community devastated.

In 2014, the 40-year-old
Stephen Port killed

three young men
in Barking, East London.

All the bodies had been found
within yards of one another,

and it was initially thought
that no foul play was involved,

but the discovery of a fourth
victim in September 2015,

25-year-old Jack Taylor,
led the police to the killer

who had poisoned
his trusting victims.

On the 13th of September, 2015,

Jack had arranged to meet a man
he'd been chatting to

on the gay-dating
mobile phone app Grindr.

He was never seen alive again.

It was a day that his family
would never forget.

-We know that Jack hadn't come
home, so we was all worried,

and we was all trying to get
ahold of him, wasn't we,

and chasing up
his friends and stuff.

We'd always hear from Jack.

He'd always let my mom and dad
know if he wasn't coming home

or...
And he hadn't.

-Two days after reporting
Jack missing,

the family received
the news they'd been dreading.

-Mom had called me to say
that Jack still wasn't home,

and then all of a sudden,
a police car pulled up outside,

and then the next thing,
she said that

the officers
were coming towards our door,

and all I've heard is,
"Are you Jack's mom and dad?"

and, obviously, they said,
"Yeah," and the officer said,

"Jack is dead,"
and you just heard Mom scream.

More of a scene, now,
well, that scream is.

-Jack's body had been
discovered propped up

against the outside wall
of the graveyard

of St. Margaret's Church
in Barking, East London.

Police found drug paraphernalia,

including a small bottle
containing the party drug GHB.

He had died from an overdose.

However, Jack's family
was certain

that his death
wasn't self-inflicted.

-Jack was very antidrugs,
so that didn't make sense.

You just get this gut feeling
that something is not right.

-The family were determined
to find out the truth,

and a fortnight
after Jack's death,

the police showed them
some revealing footage.

-And we found out
two weeks later

that they had seen
CCTV footage of Jack

meeting a man
at Barking Station,

which we felt was very bizarre
and very strange,

and at that time,
in the moment as well,

we just thought,
"Well, who's this man?"

-The man in question was a
local chef named Stephen Port.

The story of this elusive killer
begins over 40 years ago.

-Port was born in
Southend-on-Sea

in February 1975,

left Southend by the age
of about one,

and his parents moved
to Dagenham in Essex.

-He seems to have come
from quite an average

working-class background,
which was, to all intents

and purposes, relatively
normal from the outside.

He seemed to be a boy
who was quite quiet.

He was quite awkward.

He wasn't somebody who was
a great conversationalist,

and it's been said
that when he was at school,

some people thought
that he was deaf

because he was that detached

and that disengaged
from other people,

so he's always been very insular
and very introverted.

-After taking his GCSEs,
Port enrolled into art college

but had to drop out because his
family couldn't afford the fees.

-He had to basically choose
something else,

so he went on
and trained to be a chef,

so I think he's always got
that sense of frustration

and that sense of entitlement.

I think he has this idea that,
"I have this talent.

I have this skill.

I should be able
to develop that,

and I'm not able to
because of other people,"

so I think that stays with him
for quite a long time.

-Age 30, Port moved out of his
family home

and into a flat on Cooke Street
in nearby Barking, East London.

One of his new neighbors
was Ryan Edwards.

-I first Stephen when I moved
to Barking and in April 2005,

and I lived in
a first-floor flat,

and it overlooked where
I would discover Stephen lived.

As a young gay man myself,

I didn't know anyone gay
in the local area,

so it didn't take me long,
really,

to introduce myself to him.

He was a very tall man, sort of
a towering physical presence,

and he actually walked
with almost like a bit

of a lumber-stroke lurch.

He was very much
a man of few words,

so when he used to talk to me,

he often didn't
give eye contact.

He would bow his head,

and he would often give one
or two-word answers.

-And it wasn't long before Ryan
started to notice

some strange behavior
from his new neighbor.

-I think there was something
stunted about

Stephen's mental development.

I remember something
a bit peculiar.

I was going to host a party.

I was just putting
some rubbish out,

and there was a toy truck there,

and I thought,
"Stephen will love that,"

and I was with a friend
at the time.

He said, "You can't give
a grown man a toy truck,"

and I was like,
"Yeah, but, you know,

from what I knew of Stephen,
"I think he'd really like it."

And so at the party,
I gave him the toy truck,

and lo and behold, he was
absolutely overjoyed with it.

He then sat cross-legged
on the floor

and starting pushing
the toy truck up and down,

and he was obviously
in his complete own world

while the party
was going on around him.

-He retains quite a childlike
quality to him,

even as an adult,
so he collects children's toys,

and he plays with those toys
almost like he's a child,

so the idea of the judgment
of other people

and what others would think
of his behavior

really doesn't impact upon him
in the same way

that it does the rest of us.

-Port's awkward demeanor
made it difficult for him

to meet men in person.

He was far more comfortable
with online dating.

-I think Stephen Port
was somebody

who did lack
those basic social skills,

so I think he'd find
social media

incredibly attractive.

He's able to spend time thinking
about the types of things

to say on his profile,

and he'd have real trouble
meeting people

in a face-to-face situation,

but the Internet removes
a lot of that.

-This was his form
of communication.

He wasn't a man, for example,

to go out to the pub
or to the bar at night.

This was a man who lived
in his own fantasy,

created with the help
of his Internet connection.

Port created several profiles
across many different sites.

-He claimed to have been
in the military.

He claimed to have graduated
from Oxford University.

At other times, he'd claimed

that he was
a special-needs teacher,

and that's the thing
about social media.

It enables us to present
a whole range

of different identities
to people,

and I think what he was
essentially doing here

was trying on
different identities

because the self
that you create on social media,

you can be whatever
you want to be.

-Stephen's rate of going through
and meeting new guys

was prolific,
so it was quite, you know,

not unusual that there'd be
a new guy every day.

Even on the first time
he'd met them,

he would then announce to me,
via text message normally,

that, you know, "I've got a new
boyfriend. Come around

and meet my new boyfriend."

-The Stephen Port that he
presented to the world

was somebody who looked
younger than he was.

He would often use pictures
that were taken many years ago.

He doesn't feel that
the real Stephen Port

is actually enough to actually
get the attention of others

and to have others
interested in him.

-It was clear that Port
was attracted to younger men.

-There's a really clear reason
for that because here,

we've got somebody who really
has a lot of problems

relating to people
of his own age,

so I think he's always going to
be attracted towards people

who look younger because he
feels like he's more in control.

-He was a kind
of praying mantis figure,

quite thin, pale-faced,

uncomfortable
in lots of company,

much happier when he was alone
with the young men.

He had an appetite
for vulnerable young men,

certainly younger than 25,

and he was interested
in control.

It's about the power, and for
Port, it was all about power.

-Stephen would quite
often deposit

the boyfriend in my company,

and so I would end up
getting to know these guys,

and they rarely had a good word
to say about Stephen.

They would often say that
he was mentally abusing them.

He was very argumentative,
very manipulative,

very controlling.

Though what was strange
really is that

if Stephen was such
an awful person,

they were still sticking around,
and so again,

was there some sort of control

that Stephen was exhibiting
to make these guys,

you know,
not run for the hills?

-As well as the volatile
relationships,

Port had become immersed

in a world
of drug-fueled sex parties,

but his wild behavior
was beginning to spill over

into his everyday life.

-He led me through to the
kitchen and the living room,

and I was absolutely taken aback

when I looked
at the coffee table,

and the whole circumference
was filled up

with a clear plastic box,

and in that container
were lots and lots

and lots of vials
of clear liquid

and bags of white powder.

I obviously quickly realized

that this is
a huge amount of drugs,

so then that's when I pretty
much took a step back,

and that was one
of the last times

I actually went around
Stephen's flat.

-There was nobody there putting
the brakes on his behavior.

There was nobody
holding him accountable

for what he was doing,
so when one relationship ended,

another one would begin,

and it would be a little bit
more aggressive,

a little bit more violent
than the one before.

-Stephen Port's violent behavior
would only intensify

as his appetite
for young men

and drug abuse would
spiral out of control.

He was living alone in a flat
in Barking, East London,

and his Internet search history

was becoming more
and more perverse.

-He was trying to satisfy
his desire

by searching the Internet,
which a lot of people do.

The difference, that some
of them get satisfied

only by looking at pictures and
watching films on the Internet,

and some of them,
that will not be enough.

They will want to move on,
which, unfortunately,

was this case.

-And it wasn't long before
he would act

upon these depraved urges.

On the 15th of June, 2014,
Port contacted 23-year-old

fashion student Anthony Walgate
through a mail-escorting site.

He offered to pay Anthony £800
to spend the night,

and they agreed to meet 2 days
later on the 17th of June.

As a precaution, Anthony texted
friends about the arrangement,

but just 2 days later,
he was found dead outside

Port's flat.

The police received
an anonymous 999 call

from Stephen Port himself.

When the paramedics arrived,

Anthony was found slumped
against a wall

with his bag beside him.

Inside was a bottle
of the date-rape drug GHB.

He had died of an overdose.

-Walgate had turned up
at his flat,

and there is no doubt
that he was rapidly subdued

with the use of GHB
and other drugs.

Now, there is an argument
which suggests

that perhaps something
went just a bit too far,

as far as Walgate was concerned

and that the drugs
had too great an effect.

It could be that he got
the dose wrong.

It could be that
this was something

new that he was trying out.

We don't know,
but what we do know

is that Anthony Walgate died
at Port's hands.

-Port told the police that he
found Anthony outside his flat

on his way home from work.

His death wasn't treated
as suspicious.

It was devastating news
for his mother, Sarah Sak.

-When I had this made,
it says on it,

"Anthony. It's all about me,"
because to me, that was...

That summed up Anthony.
It was always all about him.

I've always said to friends
and family,

"Now, you need to get pictures.

You never know
what's going to happen."

The last time I had any contact
with Anthony

was the 15th of June

because it was my birthday
on the 17th of June,

and I said to him,
"I'm going on holiday.

I'll see you when I get back,"
that sort of thing,

and of course, I never did get
to see him again.

It was the Sunday before I was
due to come home,

and I turned my phone back on.

There was 50-odd missed calls
or texts,

hundreds and hundreds
of messages coming through,

that, "You need to ring home,"
you know,

"Something has happened,"
so I called my son,

and he had to
tell me over the phone

that Anthony
had been found dead.

To be honest, it was just
a bit of a blur.

It was so fast, and I don't even
really remember much about it.

I was just in shock
that it could happen.

You know, you really don't
expect this to happen.

You go on holiday for your
birthday, et cetera,

and then find out
one of your children had died.

-Sarah approached the police
for some more information

about her son's death.

-Anthony was found dead
in the street.

So I said, "Well, you know,
was he stabbed, shot, beaten?

What?" No, nothing.

Not a mark on him,
"And we don't know why."

They'd done a postmortem
the Friday before,

and nothing had come up
and shown,

so I said to him
straightaway then,

"Something's not right."

-Anthony's friends told
detectives that he'd arranged

to meet up with a man
on the night he disappeared.

The police soon realized
it was the same person

who dialed 999,
Stephen Port.

On the 26th of June,
he was arrested.

He laptop was seized
and his DNA taken.

-It starts to unravel,

and the police do start
to put the pieces together

and figure out that he is
connected to this in some way,

so Port's story changes.

He continues to lie,

and I think he's sailing
quite close to the wind

with this particular case.

-Port told detectives
that Anthony had taken drugs

and fallen asleep
after they'd had sex.

He said he then left
the 23-year-old in the flat,

and when he got back
from work later that day,

Anthony was dead.

Port said he panicked
and carried the body outside

before calling the police.

The investigators believed him.

-And I think he feels
quite relieved

when he gets away with it
because I think that once he was

in the police station,
once he was being questioned,

he probably did think
the game was up,

and I don't think he could
quite believe his luck

when he walked away from it.

-The police have missed
an opportunity to capture Port.

He would go on to kill
three more young men.

Human-rights campaigner
Peter Tatchell believes

all the deaths could've been
avoided if communication

between the authorities
and the public were improved.

-One of the problems the gay
community and police face

is that many crimes linked
to dating apps are not reported.

There is, in general,
a very significant

underreporting
of homophobic hate crime,

but there appears to be
a particular

underreporting of crimes

linked to Grindr
and other social dating apps.

-On June the 26th,
the police charged Port

with perverting
the course of justice

and set a trial date
for March 2015.

He was immediately released
on bail.

-Astonishingly, they did
no further serious

probing of Stephen Port,

including his searches
on his laptop

and including his phone records.

Those searches might have much
earlier on shown a spotlight

on Stephen Port
as a potential killer.

-In fact, Port was ready
to strike again.

Just 2 months after
Anthony Walgate's death,

he was back on the dating mobile
phone app Grindr and began

messaging 22-year-old
Slovakian Gabriel Kovari.

On the 23rd of August,
Gabriel moved into Port's flat.

-He seemed like a very nice guy,
very articulate, intelligent,

well-spoken
who had a passion for art,

and he was very much
an aspiring artist.

-Ryan invited the couple
into his flat for a coffee.

-So Stephen brings him over,

and when Stephen
goes to the toilet,

Gabriel then says to me
in sort of hushed tones,

"Ryan, Stephen is not
the man you think he is.

He is a bad man," and it didn't
take me long to realize

that Gabriel was not happy
living with Stephen."

-I think Stephen Port would have
really had a bit of a shock

with Gabriel Kovari.

I think he would've felt
incredibly threatened by him

because here is a young man

who is everything
that Stephen Port isn't.

He's somebody who's ambitious.

He's somebody who's going
somewhere in his life,

and I think Port will feel
incredibly resentful

towards him.

-He was strikingly different
to the guys

that Stephen would normally
hang around with,

and so for that reason,
he piqued my interest really,

and so I thought,
"Oh, well, actually,

I'm going to keep in touch
with Gabriel,"

and so we then started to swap
some messages on social media.

-But all of a sudden,
the messages stopped.

-And so I raised this
with Stephen about, you know,

"Why has Gabriel stopped,
you know, communicating?

Where is he?"
and then Stephen told me that,

"I'm not sure where Gabriel
has gone.

He's just disappeared,"
and then it was...

It changed after a few days to,

"Gabriel has met up and gone out
with an army guy,"

and it changed again to,

"Actually, I'm worried about
Gabriel's safety,"

and then it was about
a week after that,

that I got this really
eerie message from Stephen,

a long, long message saying,

"And I've got some
really sad news,

but I've heard
from Gabriel's friend

that he's gone back home,
and he picked up

a mysterious illness
and has died."

-On the 28th of August, 2014,

just 5 days after he moved into
Port's flat on Cooke Street,

Gabriel Kovari was found dead.

A woman walking her dog

in the graveyard
of St. Margaret's Church

found his lifeless body
propped up against a wall.

-It was an awful,
awful realization,

you know, that he was...

You know, he seemed like
such a nice, pure person,

and, you know,
coming to this country,

and, you know, what a way
to be welcomed by this country,

to end in such, you know,
awful circumstances.

-It's appeared that he,
Gabriel Kovari,

had died of a drugs overdose,
but the shocking reality

was that Stephen Port
had drugged and killed him,

just as he did
with Anthony Walgate

2 months previously.

Port had now killed two men.

His urges were only
intensifying,

and in less than a month,
another man would be dead.

The police had arrested
and charged him

on perverting
the course of justice

after he failed
to correctly report

the death of his first victim,
Anthony Walgate,

but they had no idea
that Port was actually a killer.

-I think the key thing
about Stephen Port

getting away with murder is,
there's not that connection

between actions
and consequences.

He can take somebody's life,
and nothing happens,

and he continues
to get what he wants.

He continues to be able
to assault his victims

and to dispose of their bodies
and in the most obvious way,

and I think he does feel
incredibly untouchable

at this point in time.

-While still out on bail,
Port killed for a third time.

On the 18th of September,
he contacted 21-year-old chef

Daniel Whitworth through
an online gay dating site,

and the two decided to meet.

Two days later,
Daniel was found dead.

His body was discovered
in the graveyard

at St. Margaret's Church
in the same spot

as Port's second victim,
Gabriel Kovari,

extraordinarily,
by the exact same dog walker.

-I've come through,
and I've seen somebody else,

a different boy, sitting in
exactly the same position,

leaning up against
the exact same wall,

and I thinking to meself,
"Please, God,

no, please,
not another one."

-On the news of his death,
Daniel's stepmother,

Mandy Pearson,
was completely heartbroken.

-Well, this is my memory box
for Daniel.

It's got a lot of things
in there,

just things
that I'm still finding.

Anything that I come across
that reminds me of him even,

I'll just put in there.

Adam, Daniel's father,
really did adore his boy.

You know, he was going places,
and Daniel's dad was very proud

of that,
extremely proud of that.

-But on the 20th of September,
2014,

the family's lives
changed forever.

-I opened the door to the police

who immediately
removed their hats,

and that was when time
stood still for me, really.

I thought, "They're not here
with good news.

They just aren't over here
with good news."

I really don't recall
what I actually said next.

I cried, and so then,
one of us asked, "How?"

and they did lower
their heads and say,

"Well, it looks like
he took his own life."

-Just like his other
two victims,

Port had poisoned Daniel
with a toxic amount of GHB.

He then placed his body in the
same place as Gabriel Kovari's.

In a bizarre move to try
and evade capture,

Port then wrote and planted
a fake suicide note,

which claimed that Daniel
had killed Gabriel

just 3 weeks earlier.

-Adam and I actually managed

to see the letter
in its entirety.

There wasn't a thing
in that letter

that spoke to us about Daniel.

There were no names.

He was talking in the wrong
kind of context.

It was like, "I didn't tell
my family where I was going."

Well, you wouldn't say that
to your family,

and at that point, I said,
"Who is this addressed to?

Because it's not
addressed to us. Is it?"

-Something else in the letter
aroused Mandy's suspicions.

-There was, "Don't blame the guy
I was with last night.

It was only sex," and obviously,
the first question then was,

"Who? Who was this man?"

-The fact that Stephen Port
wrote the fake suicide note,

it does seem
completely incredible.

Doesn't it?
But by this point,

he thinks he's invincible

because he's gotten away
with murder before,

and he sailed quite close
to the wind that time,

so he wants to be careful that
he doesn't get caught again,

and I think because
he is quite childlike,

because he is quite immature,

he doesn't see how
absolutely incredulous

this should appear to be.

-News of the death
of the three young gay men

began to spread through
the LGBT community.

A friend of Gabriel Kovari,
John Pape,

approached human-rights
campaigner Peter Tatchell.

-I was immediately shocked
that the police had issued

no public appeal,

and there seemed to be
no ongoing investigation.

That prompted me to ask
John Pape to contact Galop,

the police-monitoring group,

and PinkNews,
the main gay website.

I asked him to try and get them
to press the police for answers.

Both Galop and PinkNews
did go to the police

but were reassured that there
was nothing suspicious

or unusual about the deaths.

-Port had managed to evade
capture for a third time.

However, his killing spree
was about to temporarily halted.

On the 23rd of March, 2015,
Port pleaded guilty

to perverting
the course of justice

during the investigation
into Anthony Walgate's death.

He was sentenced to 8 months
in prison

but only served 2 of them.

On the 4th of June,
he was released.

Port was free to kill again.

-I never really understood
the circumstances at the time

of why he was in prison,
but I did ask him, obviously,

when he got, via text message,
"What was that all about?"

You know, "Why were you in
prison, you know,

for a couple of months?"

and eerily,
he said to me on text message,

"It was a 90-second mistake,
Ryan,

that cost me several months
of my life in prison,"

and I never really understood
what he meant by that,

but looking back,
it's kind of a bit chilling.

-Just 3 months after
being released from prison,

Port struck again.

On the 14th of September, 2015,

almost exactly a year
since the last murder,

the body of 25-year-old
forklift driver Jack Taylor

was found
in the same churchyard

as Gabriel Kovari
and Daniel Whitworth.

-Well, I think the graveyard

became a kind of favorite
disposal site for him

because it served two purposes.

It got the bodies
out of the way,

but it also created
a bit of narrative

for anybody coming
across these individuals.

This graveyard was the place
where often homeless people,

people who were down
on their luck would hang out,

and that creates a little bit
of a story in the beginning,

when the bodies are discovered.

-Jack's family were devastated
but began to question

the circumstances
surrounding his death.

-We know Jack, obviously,
and Jack is very particular.

He didn't like the dark,
didn't like it at all,

first off, and second of all,

Jack wouldn't just walk
in a park area,

let alone a cemetery
or anything like that, you know?

I mean, he wouldn't.

-And it doesn't make sense
to leave the house at,

like, half 2 in the morning,

3 o'clock in the morning
to go stay over at a park.

-Yeah.
-That doesn't even make sense.

-He was just an absolute joy
to be around.

-Loving, caring, always there
for other people.

-Determined to find out more,
the Taylor family asked to see

the CCTV footage of Jack's
last-known movements.

It showed him walking with
a tall blond stranger.

In October 2015, the police
put an appeal to the public,

and it was soon confirmed

that the mysterious man
in the footage was Stephen Port.

-In the end,
it was the determination

of Jack Taylor's family
to pursue the police.

That eventually led them
to take Port seriously.

I believe had that not happened,

Port might well have got away
or got away with it.

-On the 15th of October, 2015,
Port was arrested on suspicion

of causing the deaths
of all four young men.

The police had a serial killer
in custody,

one that had previously
slipped through their fingers.

The police had originally
believed that the deaths

were all self-administered
drug overdoses.

They were determined
to find out the truth.

Detectives searching Port's flat
had ceased his laptop

and mobile phone.

They interrogated him
about his search history,

which included,
"boy drug raped."

His hard drive also
contained videos of him

having sex
with unconscious men.

Under questioning, Port admitted
that he'd met his third victim,

Daniel Whitworth,
at a sex party,

but he knew nothing
about his death.

He also claimed that he hadn't
administered drugs

to anyone and denied
killing the four young men.

-He's quite well-spoken.
He appears to be quite reserved.

I think what we're seeing here
is a bit of a veneer

that he's crafted to present
to the rest of the world.

You wouldn't think that this is
the type of person

who could do
this kind of thing.

-But the police
weren't falling for it.

They could link Port
to all four of his victims.

On the 18th of October, 2015,
he was arrested and charged

with the murders
of Anthony Walgate,

Gabriel Kovari, Jack Taylor
and Daniel Whitworth.

-I was told via the phone.

The liaison officer
that we had previously,

he phoned with
the opening line of,

"Don't build your hopes up,
but we've arrested someone,"

and I said, "Right.

This is just
too huge for me to deal with,

and I need to speak to Adam,
so I'm going to let you go."

To try and explain to you
how that was,

the surreal situation
that we were in,

also included
the emotion of comfort

because we thought he wasn't
in that dark place.

He didn't take his own life.

He wasn't angry with any of us.
He wasn't upset.

He wasn't in this awful place
where we couldn't reach him,

where he didn't come to us,
where...

And for that split second,
you're comforted by the fact

that your son has been murdered,
which is bizarre.

It's bizarre.

We had a sigh of relief,

and that was quickly
followed by anger.

It was just incredible.

We didn't know
where to go from there.

-The day I actually got
the phone call to say

that they'd arrested him
for the four murders,

I actually --
I didn't even feel glad.

I felt like I'd been shot,
to be quite honest,

straight pain to me chest,
and I sat on the stairs.

It was awful.

-Yes.
-I couldn't believe it.

-It's, like, it's one thing,
putting everything together,

what me and Jen did
and believing that we are right,

that somebody has done
something to Jack,

but when you're told it,

and it becomes official,
it's awful.

It is awful.

-And it wasn't long
before the story

of the shocking murders
hit the headlines.

-A friend of mine had sent me
a link to a news article online,

and I clicked on it,

and kind of like an icy dread
sort of went over my body,

and I sat upright in bed
where it was like,

"Local man Stephen Port arrested
on suspicion of four murders,"

and then I looked
through the names,

and I saw Gabriel
being one of them.

-As the story broke, more men
came forward claiming that

they, too, had been drugged
and sexually assaulted

at Port's flat
after meeting him online.

-I think there was
a very clear reason

why Port chose to use GHB.

I think that he was tapping
into the stigma

and that the lifestyle,

or the perceived lifestyle,
of young gay men.

I think he realized that,
you know,

"If this does go too far,

if somebody does have too much,
and they don't survive,

then I'm going to be able
to present it

in a particular way that people
aren't going to ask questions."

-I was very surprised
what an ugly person he is,

and I think the only way

he could get
these young attractive boys

was to drug them because nobody
would've looked at him twice.

He was a very ugly person
inside and out

and a sad, lonely bald old man,

and I don't think
he's very bright,

and he literally thought
he was God,

that he could
just get away with it.

-In July 2016, Port was charged
with the rape

of eight more victims
between 2012 and October 2015,

the month
he was finally captured.

-The single most shocking thing
about Stephen Port

is that a monster can prey
on innocent young men

in absolutely plain sight

in the East End
of London in 2015,

and no one seems to pay
any attention at all.

-When his trial began
at the Old Bailey

on the 5th of October, 2016,

Port was faced with 29 separate
charges of rape, sexual assault,

administering a substance
with intent and with murder.

The 41-year-old pleaded
not guilty.

This meant the family of
the victims would have to face

the man responsible
for killing their loved ones.

-And we walked in.

I knew I was going
to look at him,

and he was up there
behind glass,

and he was looking down
when we came in.

I wanted Stephen Port to give me
some eye contact.

That was a need in me.

I was just looking for any,
any small sign of human emotion

from this thing,
this thing with two arms

and two legs
that was apparently human.

I wanted something
from his eyes,

and I never got that.

I didn't.

I didn't get that.

-For 4 weeks, the jury were
presented with evidence to prove

that Port was a killer.

Investigators had found his DNA
on Gabriel Kovari's sunglasses

and Daniel Whitworth's clothes.

Handwriting experts
also confirmed that

Daniel didn't write the suicide
note found alongside him.

Ryan Edwards testified against

his former neighbor
during the trial.

-So I did my evidence,
and as I was leaving,

and I couldn't help but kind
of quickly glance at Stephen

because I had to walk quite near
past him as I was leaving,

and chillingly, he kind of
gave me a crooked half smile,

almost like a mischievous grin
that a child would give

when they've been caught out
doing something they know

is wrong,
and that was eerie.

-On the 25th of November, 2016,
the jury convicted

Port of a total of 22 offenses
against 11 men,

including the four murders,
four rapes, four sexual assaults

and 10 counts of administering
a substance with intent.

Mr. Justice Openshaw
sentenced Stephen Port

to a whole life tariff.

He was immediately sent
to Belmarsh Prison.

He will never be released.

Justice had finally been served.

-That sick, twisted scumbag
will never be able to hurt

or destroy anyone else's
family or life.

Our Jack can finally
rest in peace.

We will always be completely
heartbroken as a family.

-Since Port's incarceration,
police are re-examining as many

as 58 unexplained deaths
involving the drug GHB.

-There are almost
certainly many,

many more young men
who were assaulted one way

or another by Stephen Port.

The only thing
we can be grateful for

is that Port was
eventually stopped.

He was, in every respect,
a most terrifying figure.

-In October 2016,
the Metropolitan Police

referred themselves
to the Independent Police

Complaints Commission.

The IPCC launched an independent
investigation into 17 officers

who handled the response
to the four deaths.

The investigation continues.

Despite the internal police
review and Port's incarceration,

nothing can bring back the four
young men that lost their lives.

-We've got to make room
for this to run parallel

with the life that...

I'm not going to use
the word destroyed

because he's taken our boy,
and he's not taken anymore.

We do reminisce.

We do reminisce about Daniel,
and, you know,

some of the things we did
when we were out and about,

and, you know,
that's becoming easier to do.

-No. It still isn't getting
easier over time.

He used to say,
"You know, if I'm..."

Being in early teens,
he called me Sessa.

He never called me Mom,
and he always used to say,

"You know, Sessa,
one day, I'll be famous.

Everybody will be
talking about me,"

which they are, but, obviously,
for the wrong reasons.

-We haven't had time to grieve.
Have we?

-No.

We still have days now where
we'll just get a pass

for what we call a normal day,

and we don't feel like
anything is normal anymore.

Do we?
But a normal day,

and all of a sudden, we say,
"Oh, my god," like...

-He's not here.

-Jack is not here, and then
you'll have another day

where you actually think,
"Jack was murdered."

Watching your mom and dad
every day,

every single day,
fall apart...

-Right, and there's nothing
you can do about it.

-Because, you know,
like everybody in the world,

if your mom and dad
are upset,

or, you know, something
is wrong, you try and fix it,

and there's nothing we can do,

and that is hard, very hard.

You know, watching the fact
that they fell apart.

They've aged, and they're
people we've always known.

They're not the same
people anymore.

That is hard.

It's hard for all of us.
Ain't it?

-Yeah.

-Stephen Port affected the lives
of so many people,

not just those he killed
and those he raped

but also all of
their friends, family

and the entire LGBT community
as a whole.

He murdered his victims for
his own sexual gratification,

and it's a tragedy
that he was able

to get away with it
for so long.

When he was finally captured,

his horrific crimes
were brought to light,

but now, we should forget
the name Stephen Port

and celebrate the memory
of Anthony,

Gabriel, Daniel and Jack
instead.

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