Four Lives: Who were Grindr Killer Stephen Port’s victims?

Stephen Port took the lives of four young men (Picture: AP)

Grindr Killer Stephen Port raped and murdered four men between 2014 and 2015.

Upcoming BBC drama Four Lives focuses on the killer’s victims’ families fight to uncover the truth about what had happened to their lost sons, brothers, and loved ones in the face of a now widely condemned police investigation.

Port met his victims on gay dating apps where he published fake biographies. He spiked the four men with the date rape drug GHB by adding it to their drink before adding raping and murdering them in his Barking flat.

He is serving a life sentence with a whole life order, meaning he will never be released from prison.

Who are Stephen Port’s victims?

Port took the lives of four young men – Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth, and Jack Taylor.

Anthony Walgate

Fashion student Walgate was Port’s first victim and was murdered in June 2014 aged 23.

The Hull native was found dead outside Port’s flat in Barking, after being drugged and raped by Port.

Walgate, who occasionally worked as an escort, was initially contacted by Port on 17 June 2014 pretending to be a client and offered £800 for his services. They later met at Barking station.

Anthony Walgate was a fashion student (Picture: PA)

Walgate died after being given a fatal overdose of GHB and in the early morning of 19 June, Port dragged the body to the pavement outside his flat and used his own mobile phone to call an ambulance.

Not giving his name he told an operator that he had been driving past and had seen a ‘young boy’ who was ‘collapsed or had had a seizure or was drunk’ on the street.

Port then returned to his flat and shortly before 8am, Walgate was pronounced dead.

Evidence linking Port to Walgate’s death was missed at this time.

Port was convicted of perverting the course of justice in March 2015 because his account of the death to the police varied. He was imprisoned for eight months, but released the following June and electronically tagged.

Gabriel Kovari

Gabriel Kovari was Port’s second victim (Picture: PA)

Kovari was 22 when he was killed by Port. After finishing university in his home country Slovakia, he moved to London in 2014.

He had briefly lived with Port before he was killed in August that same year.

Kovari’s friends and family sought justice after his death and pleaded with the police to investigate the links between his death and Walgate.

John Pape, who gave Kovari his spare room in his Deptford flat for six weeks, was among those searching for the truth.

‘Multiple emails were ignored,’ he told inews. ‘I felt like I’d hit a brick wall with police. I reached out to LGBT+ campaigner Peter Tatchell and Galop to express my concerns.’

Daniel Whitworth

Daniel Whitworth’s body was found with a fake suicide note (Picture: PA)

Whitworth was just 21 when he was killed by Port in September 2014.

At the time of his death, he was working as a chef and living with his boyfriend Ricky Waumsley in Kent.

The pair first met in 2010 in Margate where Ricky was living and Whitworth was on holiday. They moved in together one year later.

Port planted a fake suicide note on Whitworth’s body that appeared to take responsibility for Kovari’s death.

Jack Taylor

Jack Taylor’s life was taken by Port in 2015 (Picture: PA)

Jack Taylor was Port’s fourth victim and claimed his life in September 2015.

Taylor was 25 when he was killed and had been living with his parents in Dagenham where he worked as a forklift driver.

After his death, his father Colin Taylor said he was a ‘popular young man’ and was anti-drugs.

He added: ‘If the police would have just listened to all those lovely people… this would never have happened… we think because the police treated Jack as a drug addict the police didn’t look any further.’

Four Lives airs tonight at 9pm on BBC One.

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