Alleged serial killer Stephen Port 'wouldn't have minded being raped' Published duration 2 November 2016

image copyright Julia Quenzler image caption Stephen Port denies 29 counts including four murders

An alleged serial killer told a jury he "wouldn't have minded" being drugged and raped by a young man he is accused of murdering.

Stephen Port, 41, denies murdering four men and a series of sexual and drug offences against eight others at his flat in Barking, east London.

The Old Bailey heard Mr Port admit to writing a suicide note which was found on the dead body of Daniel Whitworth.

He said he did this on the promise they could have sex afterwards.

The defendant denied he had faked the note in order cover up his murder of Mr Whitworth and another man, Gabriel Kovari, 22.

Mr Port is alleged to have surreptitiously given both men fatal doses of date rape drug GHB in a bid to have sex with them while they were unconscious.

Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the note was part of elaborate cover-up intended to portray Mr Whitworth as taking the blame for Mr Kovari's death.

Mr Port insists that he wrote the note for Mr Whitworth to help him get his role in Mr Kovari's death "off his chest".

But the accused claimed he "passed out" as the drink Mr Whitworth gave him contained "a bit" of the date rape drug GHB.

Under cross-examination, Mr Port said he had previously raised the possibility that Mr Whitworth might have raped him while he was unconscious.

Mr Rees asked him: "Why did you raise the suggestion this young man may have raped or sexually assaulted you?"

Mr Port replied: "I wouldn't have minded if he did."

"Come on, Mr Port! That's not true, is it?" Mr Rees responded. "You 'top' other people, they don't top you. So you would have minded if he raped you whilst you were unconscious."

"It's just a shame we didn't get to do more together," was Mr Port's reply.

image copyright PA image caption Mr Port is alleged to have murdered the men at his flat in Barking, east London

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

"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," he continued.

"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."

The chef, from Barking, east London, is also accused of murdering Anthony Walgate, 23, and Jack Taylor, 25.

Mr Port denies a total of 29 charges, as well as offences of drugging, rape and sexual assault.

The trial continues.