Judge says police response to Grindr Killer Stephen Port was ‘surprising’ as new inquest called
The families of two men murdered by Grindr killer Stephen Port are calling for a joint investigation into their deaths.
Port was convicted a year ago of murdering Daniel Whitworth, 21, and Gabriel Kovari, 22, in 2014.
Their original inquests recorded open verdicts, but the court heard “new evidence” had since been uncovered.
Quashing the original verdicts, Lord Justice Holroyde said new inquests were “both necessary and desirable”.
A suicide note was found in the hand of Mr Whitworth claiming he accidentally killed his lover Mr Kovari and had decided to take his own life.
It turned out the note had been written by Port, but Mr Whitworth and Mr Kovari did not know each other.
Police accepted the note at face value and recorded the deaths as non-suspicious.
Port also murdered Anthony Walgate, 23, and Jack Taylor, 25.
The failure to decipher the note meant the coroner did not have key information at the inquests in June 2015.
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