UK UK - STEPHEN PORT, Suspected SK of Male Victims, London

[eneri12]

I'm sorry but the last part of thaf "suicide" note, "don't blame the guy I was with last night". Surely that shouldve raised a few questions? I hope the police are being fully investigated for their handling of these poor men's deaths.

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[Legally Bland]

I'm sorry but the last part of thaf "suicide" note, "don't blame the guy I was with last night". Surely that shouldve raised a few questions? I hope the police are being fully investigated for their handling of these poor men's deaths.

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I definitely read that this case was referred to the IPCC. I wouldn't be surprised if the findings are released very soon after the verdict.

I can't help but think there could have been some stereotyping of young gay men and overdosing on GHB. From what I've googled it happens, but geographically I can't understand how the cluster of deaths didn't warrant investigation.

And as you said, the suicide note, did they even compare handwriting?

 

[Legally Bland]

Day 2. Seems to have started with statements from ex-boyfriends, not much info apart from SP wearing a toupee for confidence:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ephen-Port-wore-toupee-confidence-Grindr.html

Rape allegation witness (victim). I assume they're dealing with the charges in chronological order, but not sure:
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Mr Port said the wine must have been "off" and offered him another drink, jurors heard.

The complainant said he quickly felt "very dizzy and tired" and had a "very sinister" feeling.

'I didn't feel safe'

He fell asleep on the sofa and the defendant suggested he went to bed, the court heard.

The man next recalled briefly "waking up naked, face down" being raped by the defendant, the court heard.

"I don't recall stopping him. I wasn't in the position to stop him," he said, as he was "only half aware of what was happening."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37609477

 

[Elainera]

Terrible.
Brave young man, coming forward to describe this.

 

[Legally Bland]

Day 3. Second rape victim:

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Today, his second alleged victim told how he was drugged by Port after meeting him on gay social networking website ‘Fitlads’.
The Muslim man, said he does not drink or take drugs, told the court: ‘I was curious. I wanted to meet people from the gay community.'
‘I thought I’m not to go out to a nightclub or bar because I don’t drink and have never been to a nightclub, so I went on a website.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...sed-serial-killer-Stephen-Port-s-bedroom.html

 

[Legally Bland]

More from the 2nd rape victim (hope nobody minds me not using the word 'alleged' or 'complainant').
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"As soon as I drank it, I went unconscious," he said.

"The next thing I remember I was on the floor screaming and shouting. It was like I was going mad."

He added he was naked, did not know his own name, where he was or who he was.

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The court heard Mr Port took him to Barking train station where the police and ambulance service were called.

During cross examination, the man said he decided not to file a police report as he was worried his parents would find out and he just wanted to go home.

He said he thought he was going to die in the flat and "if the police were not in the station, I don't know what he'd have done".

PC Alesha Owers, from British Transport Police, said Mr Port was "worried and jittery" at the station, had said the young man "arrived at his address in that state", and that he had been taking him home. He also admitted taking meth.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37621960

 

[CoverMeCagney]

I'd never heard of this case, just spotted it in the DM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-999-call-claiming-victim-drunk-seizure.html

 

[Legally Bland]

I'd never heard of this case, just spotted it in the DM

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-999-call-claiming-victim-drunk-seizure.html

I should have put a 'heads up' in the UK thread when the trial started, sorry.

Day 4 (yesterday). Prosecution evidence re. first murder victim, Anthony Walgate. 999 call audio in Cagney's link.
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Police officers tracked Mr Port down to his flat through his number, noting him as a witness and took his statement.

The jury has heard how officers later realised Mr Port had hired Mr Walgate as an escort and had been lying about the events of that night.

Pathologist Olaf Biedrzycki told the court the student's death was due to GHB intoxication and said he had been informed that Mr Walgate's jeans zip was undone and his underwear was "inside out and back to front".

There were also 14 separate injuries on the body including grazes and bruising to the inside upper left arm.
Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told the court that the second alleged murder victim, Gabriel Kovari, had been Mr Port's temporary flatmate.

The court heard how, before moving in, the Slovakian national had reassured a friend who asked him: "Are you sure he's safe? There are some crazy people out there lol."

Mr Kovari's body was found by a dog walker in a churchyard near Mr Port's home on 28 August 2014.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37628639

ETA:. Try link again.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37628639

 

[Legally Bland]

Also from yesterday, RE, a friend and neighbour of SP gives evidence re. Gabriel Location, the second murder victim.
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Mr Edwards said he only met Port's alleged second victim, Gabriel Kovari, on one occasion after he moved in to his flat.

Mr Kovari's body was found by a dog walker in a graveyard metres from Port's flat on August 28 2014.

In the days that followed, Port allegedly told him that Mr Kovari had moved out after meeting another man online.

He later claimed he had died in Spain and told Mr Edwards not to mention anything about it on Facebook.

On his reaction to the news, the witness said: "I found that text utterly shocking on at least two counts.

Twenty-year-old young men that seem perfectly healthy to me do not just die.

"I thought that was very, very unusual and I felt it was unusual 'please don't mention this on Facebook' - as if I would go on Facebook and start talking about a dead person. So I was a bit disturbed by that."

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/..._with_toy_transformers__Old_Bailey_jury_told/

 

[Legally Bland]

Day 5, Port's sister gives evidence re. 2nd murder victim GK:
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"He just said there was a body in his flat and I just told him to go to the police straight away. I was in a bit of a shock," she said.

"They had taken drugs but I didn't know what," Ms Port said.

She told jurors: "I was sick about it. It's not the sort of thing you hear every day. I was very worried. I wanted him to drop everything and go to the station then ring me when he got out and tell me what happened."

Ms Port said she was so concerned that she began driving to her brother's flat in Barking, east London, from her home in Clacton-on-Sea.
While she was en route, Mr Port called to say he had been bailed by police, the court heard.

When she went to his flat, he appeared "stressed and tired", she said.

The following March, when Mr Port was jailed for perverting the course of justice, he told his sister the man who died was called Anthony and he was from Lithuania, the court heard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37646223

 

[Legally Bland]

More detail on the sister's evidence and evidence from the poor dog walker who discovered two of the victims three weeks apart.
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Ms Denham said her first thought was “oh please, let that be somebody asleep.”


She added: “I have seen him there, and I thought it cannot be the same thing again, in exactly the same place.”


Getting visibly upset on the witness stand, she said she was “so sad” to find out it was.


She said she could see he was clutching a note in a plastic folder.


Ms Denham continued: “I didn’t go anywhere near, I didn’t touch that.”


She said she touched the body on the stomach.


Ms Denham said: “The same touch as I did on the other young chap, and again there was no obvious to response to anybody being alive. Very cold, very bluish tinge.


“Again, both bodies looked like they were asleep really, but obviously they weren’t.”


Police were called, who found on him a bottle of GBL – the liquid version of GHB – and the suicide note in his left hand, the court heard earlier.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19702...-man-had-died-in-his-flat-after-taking-drugs/

BBM

 

[Legally Bland]

The fake suicide note.



I wonder if police showed it to his family, surely they'd have had suspicions.

ETA link.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19719...e-of-his-victims-to-try-and-divert-suspicion/

 

[Legally Bland]

Day 6, I'm really feeling for the jury now.
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A jury has been shown footage of Stephen Port, who is accused of four murders, allegedly raping an unconscious man.

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The partially-pixelated videos all showed the same alleged victim, who is due to give evidence on Monday.

In one clip an unidentified person is heard speaking on the tape.

In another video Port is joined by different man, who also has sex with the comatose alleged victim on tape.

Some jurors put their hands over their mouths as the graphic clips were shown to the court on a screen which was positioned away from the public gallery.

http://news.sky.com/story/jury-show...erial-killer-stephen-port-raping-man-10617128

 

[Elainera]

I feel for the jury too. You can't un-see that.

I'm thinking Port might be a necrophiliac.

"Rosman and Resnick (1989) reviewed information from 34 cases of necrophilia describing the individuals' motivations for their behaviors: these individuals reported the desire to possess a non-resisting and non-rejecting partner (68%), reunions with a romantic partner (21%), sexual attraction to corpses (15%), comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation (15%), or seeking self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim (12%)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia

 

[Legally Bland]

In one video a third, unidentified, party is heard speaking on the tape. Port sniffs from a bottle and whispers to the other person: "You f*** him."

In another clip, Port is joined by another man, who also has sex with the comatose alleged victim on tape. A fourth man can be heard speaking during the recording.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...dered-raping-an-unconscious-man-a3369861.html

 

[Legally Bland]

I feel for the jury too. You can't un-see that.

I'm thinking Port might be a necrophiliac.

"Rosman and Resnick (1989) reviewed information from 34 cases of necrophilia describing the individuals' motivations for their behaviors: these individuals reported the desire to possess a non-resisting and non-rejecting partner (68%), reunions with a romantic partner (21%), sexual attraction to corpses (15%), comfort or overcoming feelings of isolation (15%), or seeking self-esteem by expressing power over a homicide victim (12%)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia

That seems perfectly reasonable to me.

ETA: I was thinking the prosecutions assertion that the motive of having sex with an unconscious male was superfluous, the evidence would speak for itself, the why didn't matter. Maybe this is the road they're going down.

 

[Elainera]

In one video a third, unidentified, party is heard speaking on the tape. Port sniffs from a bottle and whispers to the other person: "You f*** him."

In another clip, Port is joined by another man, who also has sex with the comatose alleged victim on tape. A fourth man can be heard speaking during the recording.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...dered-raping-an-unconscious-man-a3369861.html

OMG :scared: Who are these men and where are they??!!

 

[eneri12]

I hope the other men in these clips are found and charged accordingly.

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[Elainera]

They must be scared *****less now that SP talks.

 

[Legally Bland]

Day 7. Bit in bold, the defence surely can't be trying to argue that means consent.
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A man only realised he had been raped by an alleged serial killer when he saw a video of the crime, a court has heard.

Recordings played to the Old Bailey jury on Friday, show Stephen Port, 41, and a third man having sex with the alleged victim.

The witness, who appears unconscious in the recording, said he did not consent.

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David Etherington QC, defending, suggested to the witness that he did know Mr Port had occasionally had sex with him while he was asleep.

The witness answered "no".