Stephen Port: Police mistakes ‘probably’ contributed to victims’ deaths, inquest finds — Transcript

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1. 0:00it is the fact that it was just basic
2. 0:02policing that wasn't done in the very
3. 0:04first place had that been done
4. 0:07the other three lads wouldn't have died
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6. 0:20so
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11. 1:21if anthony
12. 1:22gabriel daniel and jack had been gales
13. 1:26found in
14. 1:27such a close proximity
15. 1:31that there'd have been an outcry
16. 1:33and i and i generally do believe part of
17. 1:35that was homophobia
18. 1:38a bit of laziness incompetence lack of
19. 1:42training
20. 1:43but
21. 1:44i absolutely stand by that they were
22. 1:46being homophobic towards these
23. 1:48four victims they've proved that they're
24. 1:50still unfit for duty still even now
25. 1:54there's no idea that they've got a case
26. 1:56to answer
27. 1:57the fact remains that uh while they're
28. 1:59still on duty the wider men
29. 2:02has got a problem they they are
30. 2:04tarnished and it's a big blob on their
31. 2:06reputation yeah
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33. 2:18i don't think the met is an
34. 2:19institutional homophobic organization
35. 2:22i do think that there were errors that
36. 2:24were made and i do think that we need to
37. 2:26rebuild the trust of lgbt plus
38. 2:29communities and people in london and
39. 2:31those are both things that we've been
40. 2:32working very hard to do
41. 2:37you