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Name required. Email required. Comment required. Walgate the first outside his front door and the other three in a nearby graveyard. The Metropolitan Police , however, neglected to link the deaths. Kovari's previous roommate, John Pape, searched on the internet for other unexplained deaths in the Barking area, and was astonished at the similarities in the case of Anthony Walgate, especially the locations in which the bodies were found; however, Dagenham Police did not link the two cases. Upon learning of Whitworth's death, he called the detective at Barking Dagenham Police and demanded to know whether they thought the now three cases were linked or could be murder, as he was concerned for his own personal safety; he was assured that they were not linked and not murder.

He also offered to be interviewed since he felt he might have relevant information regarding Kovari's last movements, but no one contacted him in response, even after he had organisations such as PinkNews contact them on his behalf. The woman who found Kovari's body and found Whitworth's body two weeks later in the same location and almost exactly the same position, also reported thinking that Dagenham Police 'had no idea what they were doing' not to connect the two cases.

Whitworth's step-mother says that when police informed her of his death, they led her to believe he had overdosed on drugs, despite no investigation having taken place, and discounted the bruising under his arms which a coroner later stated meant that third-party involvement could not be ruled out.

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They took the supposed suicide note left with his body at face value, sending a small fragment to her and Whitworth's father, asking them to verify whether it was his handwriting. Although they said they were unsure, it was established at trial that Dagenham Police had recorded this as confirmation it was Whitworth's handwriting, and that the police had not submitted the note for expert analysis.

When the couple were later shown the complete document, Whitworth's father immediately commented that he saw nothing to indicate it had been written by his son. The couple had also asked whether the police had investigated who was meant by "the guy I was with last night", and that the response was that it would never be possible to find out all the answers. Asking about challenging the open verdict or continuing the investigation, his stepmother encountered what she described as an attitude of "it is what it is, deal with it".

Similarly, Taylor's sister reported the police simply telling the family "Jack's dead" and accepting the syringe in his pocket, white powder in his wallet and needle marks on his arm as indicating that he had sat down by himself and overdosed on drugs, although her brother was very anti-drugs. They then researched for themselves and came across the three previous cases, but the police responded by denying there was any connection.

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Eventually, two weeks after his death, the police agreed to take the two sisters to where Taylor's body had been found, and at Barking Station, told them that CCTV footage of Taylor and another man had been found. The sisters were surprised not to have been notified, and more surprised to be told the police were not attempting to identify the other man.

One described the attitude of the police as "shocking". In response to their questioning the credibility of the police account of what the footage showed, a sergeant later contacted them to say that upon review, the footage did not show Taylor entering the churchyard alone. They then requested that images of the other man be made public in order to identify him; the police were reluctant, saying that they did not normally release CCTV images, but eventually gave in, and two days later Port was identified from the images and arrested.

The families have also opened a civil claim against the Metropolitan Police. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Stephen Port. All I can say is from the evidence we've heard at trial there were potential opportunities that were missed.

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The IPCC investigation will carefully consider those. He said he was writing to the victims families to apologise for the missed opportunities to catch the so-called Grindr serial killer. He disposed of their mobile phones, repeatedly lied to police and planted a fake suicide note in the hand of once of his victims taking responsibility for a previous murder. We welcome the admission by the police that opportunities were missed. Investigators have also appealed for any other men who may have been sexually assaulted or raped by Port to come forward.

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