Serial killer Stephen Port: Officers investigated for gross misconduct over handling of inquiry into murders | UK News
Five officers and three former officers are being investigated over their handling of the police probe into murders by serial killer Stephen Port.
The officers are being investigated for gross misconduct, the Independent Office for Police Conduct said.
In April a report from His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS) warned that the Met had still not learned from its “calamitous litany of failures” in the Port case – meaning the force could have missed other murders.
The ‘Grindr killer’ drugged his victims Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor with overdoses of GHB and dumped their bodies near his flat in Barking, east London, between June 2014 and September 2015.
Despite what many now see as the obvious links between these deaths, it wasn’t until the final victim’s body was found, with the grieving families carrying out their own investigations, that local police finally realised they had a serial killer on their hands.
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