Port, having already killed Anthony Walgate in June 2014 (and received a suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice in that investigation), attempted to disguise the subsequent deaths.
A chef from Gravesend, Kent, with no connection to Barking, Whitworth met Port on a dating app in September 2014. On September 20, 2014, he was found dead in the exact same spot as Gabriel Kovari, propped against the same churchyard wall. The Cover-Up and Fake Suicide Note gabriel-and-daniel-case
Families of the victims argued the police response was influenced by homophobia, pointing to dismissive attitudes when loved ones raised concerns about links between the deaths. Port, having already killed Anthony Walgate in June
A jury ruled that all four men were unlawfully killed. The Cover-Up and Fake Suicide Note Families of
Stephen Port, a chef living in Barking, used dating apps (particularly Grindr and Fitlads) to lure young men to his flat, where he drugged them with fatal doses of the date-rape drug GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyrate).
The deaths of Kovari and Whitworth, along with Walgate and the final victim, Jack Taylor, were subject to a series of inquests that concluded in December 2021. The inquest findings were scathing: