Stephen Port Victims
Serial killer Stephen Port drugged and raped young men using GHB, killing four in Barking, East London. Police initially failed to link the deaths despite bodies being found in similar locations.
Stephen Port, a chef from Barking, East London, murdered four young men between June 2014 and September 2015 by administering lethal doses of the drug GHB. He met his victims through dating apps.
The four victims—Anthony Walgate (23), Gabriel Kovari (22), Daniel Whitworth (21), and Jack Taylor (25)—were all found dead in or near a churchyard in Barking, near Port's flat.
Despite the similarities in location and circumstances, police initially treated each death as non-suspicious, attributing them to drug overdoses. This failure was later condemned as reflecting institutional homophobia.
Port was convicted of four murders, four rapes, and multiple sexual assaults in 2016 and sentenced to a whole-life order. A subsequent inquest found that police failures contributed to the deaths of at least three victims.
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