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Stephen Port trial: Serial killer guilty of poisoning three men | Stephen Port trial: Serial killer guilty of poisoning three men |
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A serial killer has been found guilty of murdering three young men by poisoning them with lethal doses of a date rape drug. | A serial killer has been found guilty of murdering three young men by poisoning them with lethal doses of a date rape drug. |
Stephen Port, who was also convicted of three rapes, lured the men to his London flat and secretly gave them GHB, the Old Bailey heard. | |
The 41-year-old chef was also found guilty of seven offences of administering a substance with intent and three sexual assaults. | |
He had denied 29 charges in total. | |
Between August 2014 and September 2015 Port murdered Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London. | |
He met his victims on dating websites, including Grindr, before giving them fatal doses of the drug in his home in Barking. | |
Their bodies were all found dumped in or near a graveyard within 500m of his house. | |
Mr Taylor's family wept in court as the guilty verdicts were delivered but Port made no reaction. | |
The jury has yet to reach a verdict on other charges including the alleged murder of Anthony Walgate, 23, who was found dead in the communal hall of Port's flat in June 2014. | |
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