Stephen Port murders: "Police have blood on their hands" — Transcript

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1. 0:00they were failed by the police
2. 0:03families who lost sons and brothers
3. 0:05today the inquests into their deaths
4. 0:08said mistakes missed opportunities and
5. 0:10basic errors by detectives let a serial
6. 0:13killer get away with murder if they had
7. 0:15just listened to any of us and
8. 0:17investigated properly
9. 0:19then as i said none of these would be
10. 0:21sat here because they'd done the job
11. 0:23they were discriminated against from the
12. 0:25very beginning whether that had been
13. 0:27they were just seen as a druggie
14. 0:29a homeless
15. 0:31guy
16. 0:31it's not acceptable police did get him
17. 0:35in the end
18. 0:36stephen did you have any involvement in
19. 0:38his death i did not know no did you kill
20. 0:40jack taylor did not know but they knew
21. 0:43about stephen port from the beginning
22. 0:45that's the ambulance but he addressed
23. 0:47the emergency
24. 0:49young boy
25. 0:51after his first murder
26. 0:53he made the first 999 call do you know
27. 0:55he was breathing
28. 0:58did you see anything happen at all
29. 1:01no
30. 1:02the chef from barking lied from the
31. 1:04start meeting his victims online he'd
32. 1:07take them to his flat once inside he'd
33. 1:10spike their drinks with lethal doses of
34. 1:12the date rape drug ghb his first victim
35. 1:16anthony wallgate a fashion student from
36. 1:19hull he was loud funny when he went down
37. 1:22to london he just he loved it he loved
38. 1:25everything about it and he was
39. 1:27determined to be a success anthony was
40. 1:29the first of four young men port killed
41. 1:31in barking he dumped the 23 year old
42. 1:34right outside his flat and told police
43. 1:37the student had died of an overdose the
44. 1:40initial response was appalling it was
45. 1:42found the 19th of june and by the end of
46. 1:43june that closed the case
47. 1:45they just didn't do it they didn't do
48. 1:47any checks on stephen park they did it
49. 1:49on anthony
50. 1:50who was the victim said this all the way
51. 1:52through if he hasn't been stabbed he
52. 1:54hasn't been shot he hasn't been beaten
53. 1:56up why is it not suspicious anthony's
54. 1:59student friends along with his family
55. 2:00pleaded with police to investigate the
56. 2:02death further but detectives embarking
57. 2:05insisted there was nothing suspicious
58. 2:07and i said then seven and a half years
59. 2:09ago i'm telling you now he was murdered
60. 2:12and
61. 2:13it came out that he was at the inquests
62. 2:16it emerged police failed to do basic
63. 2:18forensic and digital checks on port his
64. 2:21laptop which held vital clues was not
65. 2:23examined by detectives and he literally
66. 2:26at that time got away we made it if they
67. 2:28could have been bothered to do it they
68. 2:30would save three more boys
69. 2:32young lads who had everything
70. 2:34to live for two months after anthony was
71. 2:37found another body was discovered dumped
72. 2:39in the graveyard of saint margaret's
73. 2:40church just 400 meters from port's flat
74. 2:44it was gabriel cavari a 22 year old art
75. 2:47student from slovakia and just three
76. 2:49weeks later daniel whitworth was
77. 2:51murdered left in the same place he was
78. 2:5421.
79. 2:56in a morbid twist both men were found by
80. 2:59the same person who was walking her dogs
81. 3:01through the graveyard i've come through
82. 3:03and i've seen somebody else
83. 3:05a different boy sitting in exactly the
84. 3:08same position leaning up against the
85. 3:10exact same wall and i'm thinking to
86. 3:13myself
87. 3:14please god no play is not another one
88. 3:16slumped against the wall the second body
89. 3:18barbara denham found was daniel
90. 3:20whitworth port had planted a fake
91. 3:22suicide note on him but police took it
92. 3:25at face value and failed to see it was
93. 3:28murder their performance was incompetent
94. 3:30as there aren't words good enough for it
95. 3:32but they were incompetent over and over
96. 3:34and over again they're just indifferent
97. 3:36to what's right in front of their eyes
98. 3:38and that's been their attitude all the
99. 3:39way through this they're totally
100. 3:41totally to blame here
101. 3:44they messed up enormously
102. 3:47at the beginning
103. 3:49port then did serve a short time in
104. 3:50prison just a few months for the minor
105. 3:53charge of perverting the course of
106. 3:54justice but he was actually a serial
107. 3:57murderer and once released he killed
108. 3:59again
109. 4:00this is cctv footage of port meeting
110. 4:03jack taylor embarking it's now september
111. 4:072015
112. 4:08and hours after this was taken the 25
113. 4:11year old was murdered we didn't just
114. 4:13lose our brother
115. 4:15we lost our best friend we you know he
116. 4:18was our baby brother but
117. 4:20in our lives we've both said the same
118. 4:23he was our older brother because he you
119. 4:25know he looked out for us in every way
120. 4:29like the two killings before jack's body
121. 4:31was again dumped in the nearby graveyard
122. 4:34by port
123. 4:35and once again police failed to link the
124. 4:37murders but jack's sisters knew
125. 4:39something wasn't right so they became
126. 4:42the detectives searching for their
127. 4:44brother's killer we felt like nothing
128. 4:45was being done so we knew we had to take
129. 4:47over and start investigating ourselves
130. 4:49but we knew we had to do the right thing
131. 4:50the right thing was to make sure
132. 4:52that we found out what had happened to
133. 4:53jack and to make sure this never happens
134. 4:55again the inquest heard how jack sisters
135. 4:58cracked the case in the weeks after
136. 5:00their brother's death they searched the
137. 5:02internet up to 30 times a day producing
138. 5:04a case file they made 33 pages of notes
139. 5:08in them they managed to link all the
140. 5:10deaths which so far detectives had
141. 5:12failed to do they didn't do what they
142. 5:15were supposed to do they've let down the
143. 5:16public that
144. 5:17they've not just let down the boys and
145. 5:20let down us as families
146. 5:22they've let down the public that they're
147. 5:23supposed to protect we do also
148. 5:25understand that stephen paul took his
149. 5:26life but
150. 5:28we do also feel like the police do have
151. 5:30blood on their hands
152. 5:32because they might as well have just
153. 5:33loaded a gun and handed it to him the
154. 5:35metropolitan police has apologized to
155. 5:37the victims families for the failings in
156. 5:39this case but they deny homophobia was
157. 5:42to blame i don't think the met is
158. 5:44institutionally homophobic
159. 5:47and i don't think that my colleagues are
160. 5:49homophobic as well i don't think that
161. 5:51has been an issue what absolutely has
162. 5:53been is the errors that the officers at
163. 5:56the time made
164. 5:57i've said
165. 5:59all along and i will still i will always
166. 6:01say it was homophobia if that had been a
167. 6:03young girl who was 23 dumped outside
168. 6:06near the bins there would have been a
169. 6:08lot more investigating if that was a
170. 6:10woman
171. 6:11stephen paul would have been looked into
172. 6:13see this is jack taylor today no police
173. 6:15officer has been disciplined over port
174. 6:18some have in fact been promoted why
175. 6:20should these people continue in their
176. 6:22role if there wasn't good enough in 2014
177. 6:25and there wasn't good enough in 2015
178. 6:29what makes them good enough now it's
179. 6:30disgusting
180. 6:32but no inquests will bring jack back
181. 6:35wells jack
182. 6:36loved everything every day of the year
183. 6:39christmas was his his big thing the
184. 6:41christmas before he died he asked us all
185. 6:44to wear christmas jumpers and uh we all
186. 6:46said we would but when we all turned up
187. 6:49we didn't so
188. 6:51we never got to spend another christmas
189. 6:53with him so what we've done ever since
190. 6:55then is we all dress up at christmas
191. 6:56every single one of us
192. 6:58um
193. 6:59[Music]
194. 7:01in memory of him