have to say it sounded quite fantastical because it seems likely ridiculous there had been this number of deaths in an area that weren t being linked together. he detailed what ultimately turns out to have happened. and said he had been speaking to the police and they won t listen to him so he contacted us, he contacted other lgbt plus organisations, the local newspaper, who all, i believe, contacted the police in the same way that i did, and were essentially dismissed. i think the point really is that alarms had been raised, quite significant alarms had been raised, and the police chose to ignore them. i think it is worthwhile considering whether those alarms were not considered properly because of some form of homophobia or discrimination, or whether it merely just was absolutely poor policing. yes, and we will raise some of those
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