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| Serial killer Stephen Port will spend the rest of his life in prison after being sentenced to a whole life term for the murder of four men. | |
| The 41-year-old chef was found guilty of a total of 22 offences against 11 men including the four murders, four rapes, 10 counts of administering a substance and four sex assaults. | |
| Port met his victims using online dating services including Grindr and plied them with drinks spiked with fatal amounts of the drug GHB to rape them while they were unconscious, before dumping their bodies near his east London flat. | |
| After killing the men, he embarked upon an elaborate cover-up operation. He disposed of their mobile phones, repeatedly lied to police and planted a fake suicide note in the hand of one of his victims, taking the blame for the death of another. | |
| Mr Justice Openshaw gave Port the whole-life sentence after he was found guilty of all four murders after a trial at the Old Bailey. | |
| The judge said Port had carried out the murders in order to “satisfy his lust” for sex with unconscious young men. | |
| Port denied all the charges against him but was found guilty of the murders of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. | |
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