Stephen Port detective tells inquest jurors of regret over laptop ‘failing’
Detective Constable David Parish said he spent the years since Port’s victim was first discovered ‘wishing’ he had acted differently.
Detective Constable David Parish said he spent the years since Port’s victim was first discovered ‘wishing’ he had acted differently.
Stephen Port killed four men with overdoses of the drug GHB between June 2014 and September 2015.
Fashion student Anthony Walgate was found dead in Barking, east London, on June 19 2014.
China Dunning told an inquest into Anthony Walgate’s death she feared police wrongly assumed the gay sex worker had overdosed.
Anthony Walgate, 23, was killed by Stephen Port in 2014.
An inquest heard that the death of Anthony Walgate was initially classified as ‘unexplained’ rather than ‘suspicious’.
Hours after body of first victim was discovered, serious allegations against Port dating back to 2012 were found.
Police believe Stephen Port wrapped his victims’ bodies in bed sheets and carried them to the sites where they were found.
Paramedic Antony Neil said it was highly unusual to find the deceased sitting upright with legs crossed.
The serial killer gave four men fatal doses of the date rape drug GHB at his flat in east London, then discarded them at locations just metres away.
He murdered four men and sexually assaulted several others.
The inquests are being held at Barking Town Hall in east London, just yards from where four men were found dead during Port’s 16-month killing spree.
Coroner Sarah Munro QC said the inquests would look at the ‘competence and adequacy’ of the police investigations into his crimes.
Anthony Walgate, 23, Gabriel Kovari, 22, Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Jack Taylor, 25, were all killed by Port between June 2014 and September 2015.
A senior Metropolitan Police officer offered an apology to the victims’ families.