How Police Missed the Grindr Killer
Documentary examining the police investigation into Stephen Port, who murdered four young gay men in east London within 15 months.
Stephen Port date-raped and murdered four young gay men in east London within 15 months and dumped all four bodies within a few hundred metres of each other. Yet Barking and Dagenham police failed to link the deaths until weeks after the fourth one.
The film tells the story through eyes of the families of Port's victims, unpicking how the police failed to properly investigate each of the deaths in turn. The police's assumptions that these young gay men had died from self-inflicted overdoses of chemsex drugs allowed Port to continue raping and killing innocent young men.
Some of the victims' families have accused the police of institutional homophobia and asked if officers would have investigated more thoroughly, had four young women turned up dead within such a small radius. The Met Police have referred themselves to the Independent Police Complaints Commission over their handling of the case.
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How Police Missed The Grindr Killer
Duration: 01:48
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- Tue 21 Mar 2017 22:45大象传媒 One except Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland HD, Scotland, Scotland HD, Wales & 1 more
- Tue 21 Mar 2017 23:15大象传媒 Two Wales
- Tue 21 Mar 2017 23:50大象传媒 One Northern Ireland HD & Northern Ireland only
- Wed 25 Apr 2018 23:45大象传媒 One except Scotland & Scotland HD
- Thu 26 Apr 2018 00:45大象传媒 One Scotland & Scotland HD only
- Wed 5 Jan 2022 22:35大象传媒 One except Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD
- Wed 5 Jan 2022 23:05大象传媒 One Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
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