WEEKLY NEWS 10!!

The Killer the Police Missed.

BBC news looked at the serial killer Stephen Port who managed to trick the police into thinking he was not responsible for the deaths of four men.

In the summer of 2014, the bodies of two men were found in a church yard in the space of three weeks. The men were both in their 20's and were gay. The bodies were positioned in the same way in the grave yard but the deaths were considered as non-suspicious by the police. They ruled it as a suicide as there was a note explaining that Gabriel Kovari had died after an overdose an then Daniel Whitworth had taken drugs to end his life.

However, a year later, Jack Taylor's body was found in the same circumstances. But the connection between these three cases was the body of Anthony Walgate who was died before any of the others who was found 500m from the church outside the flat of Stephen Port. Port had managed to trick the police with a cover up that should have been easily figured out by the police.

The police did question Port and took DNA samples but no further action was taken and the death was not treated as a murder.

This news story is important because it shows how a serial killer managed to easily trick the police into thinking that he had nothing to do with the murders. It could be argued that the police did not fully investigate the death of Walgate which meant Port was able to go on to kill three other men. If Port was caught sooner the deaths would have been avoided.