Thursday 23 June 2022 11:26 AM Met Police will be reinvestigated over Stephen Port murders trends now
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Scotland Yard will be reinvestigated over its handling of the Stephen Port murders by the police watchdog after a 'whitewash' probe cleared 17 Metropolitan Police officers of misconduct.
The officers were accused of blunders that may have hindered the investigation into Port, who murdered Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor during a year-long killing spree before he was caught in September 2015.
All but one of the 17 officers investigated for alleged misconduct refused to answer questions when quizzed by investigators.
Now, after an inquest jury ruled in December that 'fundamental failures' to investigate Port 'probably' allowed him to kill another three gay men after his first murder in 2014, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has decided to reinvestigate.
Stephen Port (pictured), 46, is serving life in Belmarsh prison for drugging, raping and killing four men, who he met on a gay dating app, between June 2014 and September 2015
Two of Port's victims were Anthony Walgate (left) and Jack Taylor (right). Sarah Munro QC has published a prevention of future deaths report, saying she was 'concerned' to hear evidence of errors made by detectives
