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

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Cross-ex started, but not much detail.
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During cross examination, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC accused him of repeatedly lying to jurors during more than two days in the witness box.

Mr Port said he had not lied while giving evidence but accepted it would be hard for people to believe his account of the charges.

However, he agreed with the prosecutor's assertion that he could be a "determined liar to save your own skin".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37825697

 

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Day 18.
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Stephen Port, 41, told the Old Bailey he travelled to the party on 26 August 2014 with Gabriel Kovari, 22, where they met Daniel Whitworth, 21.

But the prosecution said Mr Whitworth was at a pub in Gravesend when Mr Port said the party occurred.

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Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC accused Mr Port of fabricating the account, and said he had been "caught out".

Mr Rees said the defendant was suggesting the two men had suddenly "got coy and bashful" after having sex in front of other people.

He also asked Mr Port how Mr Whitworth could have been "in two places at once".

"I've no idea. I just know it was as I remember it," Mr Port replied.

Mr Port also said he would be unable to locate the address of the party nor did he know whose property it was.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37832540

 

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Day 19. The prosecutor not pulling any punches.
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Today, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC accused Port of fabricating "a tissue of lies" in covering-up the death of his victims.

It included placing a fake suicide note in the dead fingers of his third victim Daniel Whitworth, which took the blame for the death another of Mr Port's alleged victims, Gabriel Kovari, jurors heard.

Mr Rees said Mr Port also put Mr Kovari's blue hooded top on Mr Whitworth to "establish a link" between the pair, while placing a bottle of GHB to support what was written in the suicide note.

Mr Port denied it, saying he agreed to write Mr Whitworth's suicide note on a promise of sex afterwards. But in the event, he "passed out" as the drink Mr Whitworth gave him had "a bit" of GHB in it, Port said.

Read more at http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/murd...9862436-detail/story.html#bEvYuJRdEyVC63UH.99
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Mr Rees said: “You are not suggesting he may have drugged you Mr Port? You are not suggesting he may have taken advantage of you whilst you were drugged?

The defendant accepted he had raised the possibility before that Mr Whitworth might have raped him while he was unconscious.

Mr Rees asked: “Why did you raise the suggestion this young man may have raped or sexually assaulted you? Against this dead boy?”

Port replied: “I wouldn’t have minded if he did.”

The prosecutor exclaimed: “Come on, Mr Port! That’s not true, is it. You ‘top’ other people, they don’t top you. So you would have minded if he raped you whilst you were unconscious.”

Port replied: “It’s just a shame we didn’t get to do more together.”

The barrister told Port that his account of the circumstances around the death Mr Whitworth was a “cruel lie”.

He said: “You rendered him unconscious surreptitiously with drugs for the purpose of having sexual activity with him and later dumped him in a churchyard, like Gabriel Kovari.

“That’s the truth of how he met his death. Worse than that, you used his death as a vehicle to explain Gabriel Kovari’s death.

“You just cannot bring yourself to accept the truth of what is going here. To the families. Lie after lie, that’s what’s being played out here in this court.”

http://www.gravesendreporter.co.uk/...have_minded_being_drugged_and_raped_1_4760065

 

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Port giving evidence re. one of the rape victims, including the lamest of excuses for filming sexual activity.
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Giving evidence today, Port said the alleged victim was "very submissive" when they had sex, and they would take drugs together.

Port said: "He was pretty aware what he was coming around for. He was fully aware."

When they had sex, Port would occasionally tie him up, but it was always consensual.

They arranged to have a foursome on New Year's Eve 2014 at Port's flat in Barking, east London, the defendant said.

Port said the man as being high on drugs, singing to himself and being "away with the fairies".

During the night, Port filmed himself and another man having sex with the alleged victim while he appeared to be unconscious.

Mr David Etherington, QC, defending, said: "Had you ever discussed with him the topic of having sex with him while he was asleep?"

He replied: "No. We started before he passed out. He was still singing to himself."

Mr Etherington said: "Had you asked him before if it was okay to have sex?"

Port responded: "He said do not disturb his sleep."

His defence barrister asked: "Did you explicitly ask him if it was okay, or are you saying you assumed it?"

Port said the man told him he "didn't care" so long as he was "still high", and claimed he told him afterwards about it.

Asked why he decided to film it, Port said it was because he fancied him, and because he had memory loss from taking drugs.

Port said: "When you take drugs, you remember it at the beginning and at the end, but you don't remember exactly what you did.

"It keeps the phone active. When you are high, you tend to send text messages and say things you otherwise wouldn't say.

"It keeps the phone busy. If the phone is recording, you cannot send messages."

He added: "He never expressed any unhappiness about being filmed."

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/kent-serial-killer-victim-died-115073/

 

[eneri12]

This guys either very mentally unwell and completely deluded or he's a very nasty individual. The pendulum of my mind swings between both options.

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Day 20.
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Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC accused Mr Port of lying to the police about knowing Mr Taylor.
"Yes at first," Mr Port replied.

Mr Port now claims he had a lengthy sex and drugs session with Mr Taylor, culminating in the park. He also claimed Mr Taylor was alive when he left him.

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Mr Port was asked why, throughout the day after Mr Taylor arrived at the flat, he told lies to his flatmate in order to keep him away.

"Jack was uncomfortable with him coming back," Mr Port said, before adding he did not want his flatmate to think he was promiscuous.

The court heard that Mr Port had texted a male friend to say he was in the pub with two associates at a time when he now claims he was having sex with Mr Taylor.

Mr Port admitted "that was a lie" but said he had "wanted to give him the impression I was doing something more constructive than taking drugs and having sex all day".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37864653

 

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The defence closed on Thursday. I assume closing arguments will start early in the coming week.

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/gravesend/news/serial-killer-branded-a-liar-115203/

 

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Day 21
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:29
Trial (Part Heard) - Prosecution Closing Speech

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

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The prosecutor queried if it could be a "dreadful series of coincidences" resulting in the defendant being wrongly accused, as Port claims.

Or was it the case that Port had been "selfishly pursuing a fetish for drugging and raping unconscious Twinks?"

Mr Rees said: "Is this defendant unbelievably unlucky? Have circumstances conspired to point the finger at him? Or is he a very guilty man?"

Throughout cross examination, Port had been exposed as a "habitual and compulsive liar", Mr Rees said.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/72...ort-selfishly-sought-pursue-fetish-trial-told

 

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Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told jurors: "The prosecution case is not hard to understand because we say this defendant was driven by his seemingly insatiable appetite for sex with Twinks while they were unconscious.

"If, as we suggest, the defendant was motivated to penetrate unconscious young men, he needed to find a way of raping them against their will. The obvious solution was drugs."

Mr Rees said the evidence showed all four alleged murder victims died shortly after being with Port in his flat and eight more young men complained he had - or had tried to - take advantage of them sexually.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crim...ung-men-to-pursue-sexual-fetish-a3389296.html

 

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Day 22.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - STEPHEN JOHN PORT; Defence Closing Speech - 10:32
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 11:38
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 11:59
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 14:00

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

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Day 23. Finally looks like it's coming to an end. Deliberations on 29 (?) charges may take a while though.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 10:31
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 11:43
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 12:03
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 12:04
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 14:00 - 12:59
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 14:02
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 14:58

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

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Day 24. Still summing up.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 10:30
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 11:27
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 12:00
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 12:01
Trial (Part Heard) - Legal Submissions - 12:47
Trial (Part Heard) - Summing Up - 14:07

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

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They don't appear to have been in court today.

 

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Day 25. The jury has retired to consider its verdict.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-37974988

 

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Adjourned for the day.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:32
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 10:40
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 15:49
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:30 - 15:57

 

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Day 26.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 10:29
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 11:44
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 12:10 - 12:04
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 12:32
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 12:44
Trial (Part Heard) - Resume - 15:51
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:30 - 15:59

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

[eneri12]

I hope they find him guilty. Also hope there aren't more dead young men out there as a result of his actions.

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Day 27. Nothing listed for yesterday. I reckon this may take a while.
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Central Criminal Court 16 T20157419
T20167258
Stephen John Port
Details: - No Information To Display -
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 10:35
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:00 - 16:02
Trial (Part Heard) - Jury retire to consider verdict - 10:35
Trial (Part Heard) - Case adjourned until 10:00 - 16:02

http://www.thelawpages.com/court-hearings-lists/Central-Criminal-Court.php

 

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The jury has reconvened in the trial of alleged ‘Grindr serial killer’ Stephen Port, and is set to begin deliberations for a second week.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2016/11/2...of-alleged-grindr-serial-killer-stephen-port/