they didn t investigate. they didn t do the smallest of things that you would expect a police officer to do. they didn t do theirjob, as simple as that. it all began injune 2014 when 23 year old anthony walgate was found dead outside stephen port s flat in barking. it was port who had called the ambulance, and almost immediately the police errors started mounting up. the mistakes are too many to list but they went on for 15 months before port was finally arrested for murder. and by that time, three other young men were also dead. after anthony walgate died and port reported the body, detectives missed this record in the police national database of port at barking station with a man who could barely walk after taking ghb. and they failed to examine port s computer which would have shown him repeatedly searching for videos of young men being raped while unconscious on drugs.
and by that time, three other young men were also dead. after anthony died and port reported the body, detectives missed this record in the police national database of port with a man who could barely walk after taking the date rape drug ghb. they didn t examine port s computer, which would have shown him constantly searching for videos of young men being raped, while unconscious on drugs. anthony s mother is convinced a competent police investigation would have stopped port there and then. all the other victims would have been safe if they could have just actually been bothered to investigate anthony s murder. stephen port was arrested for lying about moving anthony s body, but he remained on bail, free to kill again. and within weeks, in a nearby church graveyard, two more bodies were found. first, gabriel kovari, and then daniel whitworth. he had what appeared to be a suicide note, in which he also said he d taken
friends seriously. we now know, as we have been reporting in the last half an hour, thejury has we have been reporting in the last half an hour, the jury has concluded here that failings by the metropolitan police contributed to the deaths of three men murdered by the deaths of three men murdered by the serial killer stephen port. we are not talking about, as you heard in daniel s report, one or two or three mistakes, a catalogue of mistakes, they simply did notjoin up mistakes, they simply did notjoin up the dots when they were investigating the deaths of these three young men. simple checks were not done, and despite the fact that these four young men were found in a similar area, these four young men were found in a similararea, infact, not these four young men were found in a similar area, in fact, not farfrom similararea, infact, not farfrom where similar area, in fact, not farfrom where we are, and they were all found after having had a lethal dose of the drug ghb. the family are
small area of barking in east london, overa small area of barking in east london, over a period of less than a year and a quarter. detectives simply did notjoin the dots. they didn t investigate, they didn t do the smallest of things you would expect a police officer to do. they didn t do theirjob. et al. began in june 2014 when 24 year old anthony walker eight was found dead as a stephen port s flat. it was park who had called in the abbey lizard almost immediately the police errors started mounting up. the mistakes. they went on for 15 months, by that time three other young men were also dead. a man who could barely walk after taking ghb. they failed to examine