
How Police Missed the Grindr Killer
Overview
The story of how police repeatedly allowed a serial murderer to slip through their fingers. Stephen Port date-raped and murdered four young gay men in East London within fifteen months and dumped all four bodies within a few hundred metres of each other. 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 chem-sex drugs allowed Port to continue raping and killing innocent young men.
Top Cast
Lisa Walters
herself,narrator
Stephen Port
himself
Jack Taylor
himself
Daniel Whitworth
himself
Gabriel Kovari
himself
Ryan Edwards
himself, former neighbour
John Pape
Himself - Gabriel Kovari's Friend
Key Film Crew
Production Stats
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