Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life in prison (Picture: Facebook)

Serial killer Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of four young gay men.

The 41-year-old stalked his victims on dating sites and apps, including Grindr, before plying them with drinks at his flat.

The drinks, it later transpired, were laced with fatal amounts of the drug GHB so that he could rape them while they were unconscious.

Port was found guilty two days ago (Picture: PA)

Port dumped their bodies in or near a graveyard within just 500 metres of his flat in Barking, east London, before concocting an elaborate cover-up.


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He was convicted of murder at the Old Bailey after a jury deliberated for 28 hours and 27 minutes.



He was also found guilty of a string of sex offences against seven other men who came forward after his arrest.

Port has now been handed a whole life sentence for the horrific rapes and murders of Jack Taylor, Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth.

Jack Taylor, one of Port’s victims (Picture: PA)

Anthony Walgate who was found by police at 4am on June 19 last year in Barking (Picture: Ross Parry)

The relatives of his victims cheered and clapped as Mr Justice Openshaw told Port he would never be released from prison.

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One woman in the public gallery of the Old Bailey called the impassive Port a ‘scumbag’.

Another man in the gallery shouted at the killer: ‘I hope you die a long, slow death you piece of shit.’

The judge told Port that he had carried out the murders to ‘satisfy his lust’ for sex with unconscious young men, and described his attempt to cover up the murders with fake suicide notes as ‘wicked and monstrous’.

Gabriel Kovari (Picture: PA)

Earlier in the trial, statements from the four murder victims’ loved ones and one of Port’s sex assault victims were summarised by Jonathan Rees QC.

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Mr Walgate’s mother said that her son’s death had ‘devastated and broken the family’, while Adam, the only brother of Mr Kovari, described the difficulty of telling their mum about the killing, saying ‘there is no pain greater than losing a child’.

Daniel Whitworth’s father Adam said he had been given a ‘life sentence of grief’, and Jack Taylor’s family said his death had turned their lives ‘upside down’.

Daniel Whitworth (Picture: National News)

A sex attack victim, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said he blamed himself for not reporting the assault sooner – and speculated that he could have possibly prevented Mr Taylor’s death if he had.

Mitigating, David Etheridge QC said that Port had ‘descended into a vortex’ in which drug-taking fuelled his private life with satisfaction of his sexual desire.

‘He graduated from a fetish to a fixation, and from a fixation to a compulsion,’ he said.