Police mistakes in serial killer Stephen Port case 'probably' led to more deaths gay men | ITV News — Transcript

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1. 0:00one question has haunted jack taylor's
2. 0:02family since his murder seven years ago
3. 0:06why did the police fail to catch his
4. 0:08killer who was hiding in plain sight
5. 0:11steven paul took his life but
6. 0:13we do also feel like the police do have
7. 0:15blood on their hands
8. 0:17because they might as well have just
9. 0:19loaded a gun and handed it to him he
10. 0:20thought he was untouchable and clearly
11. 0:22he was
12. 0:23these are some of the last images of
13. 0:25jack alive walking with his murderer
14. 0:28stephen port
15. 0:29images the police failed to find until
16. 0:31weeks after jack became port's fourth
17. 0:34and final victim
18. 0:36you've got police officers in all
19. 0:37different ranks
20. 0:39that didn't do their job
21. 0:41and had their dunham earlier on they
22. 0:43could have saved lives it's
23. 0:44heart-wrenching to think that actually
24. 0:46they could have stopped this way before
25. 0:47it even got to our jack and we wouldn't
26. 0:49be sitting in there
27. 0:51today a jury agreed that a litany of
28. 0:53police failings plagued the initial
29. 0:56investigations into port stephen did you
30. 0:58have any involvement in his death i did
31. 1:00not know who was free to kill again and
32. 1:02again because basic checks weren't done
33. 1:05and evidence wasn't sent for forensic
34. 1:07tests
35. 1:09anthony walgate his first victim was
36. 1:12found in june 2014 after drugging him
37. 1:14with a lethal overdose port left his
38. 1:17body outside his flat he was later
39. 1:19charged with lying about not knowing
40. 1:21anthony and released on bail
41. 1:24going on to kill gabriel kavari whose
42. 1:26body was found in a churchyard just
43. 1:28meters from port's front door
44. 1:30three weeks later he killed daniel
45. 1:32whitworth leaving his body in the same
46. 1:35spot alongside a fake suicide note port
47. 1:38had written
48. 1:39a year later he killed his final victim
49. 1:41jack taylor it was only after his
50. 1:44sisters pieced together clues linking
51. 1:46the four victims that police finally
52. 1:48began a murder investigation
53. 1:51after the jury's conclusion their
54. 1:53families said they felt vindicated by
55. 1:55the findings but their lawyer was
56. 1:57scathing about the police's failures
57. 2:00the inadequate investigation by the
58. 2:02metropolitan police into the deaths of
59. 2:04anthony gabriel daniel and jack should
60. 2:07be on public record as one of the most
61. 2:08widespread institutional failings in
62. 2:11modern history
63. 2:13for one year daniel whitworth's family
64. 2:15were led to believe he'd taken his own
65. 2:17life before being told he was murdered
66. 2:20it's discrimination whether they want to
67. 2:22see that or not
68. 2:24when you're
69. 2:26coming up against
70. 2:28gay boys
71. 2:29with drugs in their pocket
72. 2:31dead on the side of the street
73. 2:34says to me
74. 2:36that oh here's another one
75. 2:39the metropolitan police insist
76. 2:41discrimination played no part in their
77. 2:43investigations
78. 2:45we completely accept that people's trust
79. 2:47in us has been damaged
80. 2:49by a number of recent events
81. 2:52what has happened in connection with the
82. 2:53deaths of these four young men is part
83. 2:56of that damage
84. 2:57despite numerous relatives and friends
85. 2:59repeatedly raising concerns all say they
86. 3:02were dismissed by police
87. 3:04meaning lives that could have been saved
88. 3:06weren't
89. 3:07families are now suing the metropolitan
90. 3:10police
91. 3:11settle carrier itv news
92. 3:20you