This hard-hitting BBC drama airs tonight and we cannot wait:
, a factual drama focusing on the fight for justice that the families of Stephen Port’s victims have had to endure.
Port, who has been labelled as the ‘Grindr killer’, is currently serving a life sentence for murdering Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in Barking over 16 months, between June 2014 and September 2015.was originally announced back in 2019 but had to be delayed because of an inquest into the Metropolitan Police’s investigation into Port’s crimes.that there were failures which “cannot be overlooked”.
The series, which is written by Jeff Pope and Neil McKay will “go beneath the headlines to shed new light on this story by telling it from the point of view of the families and friends of the four young men – Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor - who were murdered by Stephen Port.focuses on the fight to uncover the truth about what had happened to their lost sons, brothers and loved ones in the face of a now widely condemned police investigation.
Over a 16-month period between 2014 and 2015, Port killed four men by giving them overdoses of the “date rape” drug gamma-hydroxybutyrate at his east London home. The victims met Port via dating websites such as Grindr and were taken to his flat in Barking, east London, for sex. Their bodies were all found dumped in or near a graveyard within 500m of Port’s home.The lasting impact of the case is one that highlights the
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