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Police mistakes ‘probably’ contributed to deaths of Stephen Port victims
Met police assistant commissioner Helen Ball speaks to the media after the conclusion Barking Town Hall

POLICE mistakes “probably” contributed to the deaths of serial killer Stephen Port’s victims, an inquest jury found today, with the victims’ loved ones accusing the Met of “institutional homophobia.”

Officers in Barking, east London, missed repeated opportunities to catch the sexual predator after he plied first victim Anthony Walgate with a fatal dose of date-rape drug GHB and dumped his body.

Port struck three more times before he was caught, killing each of his young, gay, male victims in near-identical circumstances.

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