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| Relatives of victims of Stephen Port to sue Met Police | Relatives of victims of Stephen Port to sue Met Police |
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| The families of three victims of serial killer Stephen Port are to sue the Metropolitan Police over its failure to investigate their murders. | The families of three victims of serial killer Stephen Port are to sue the Metropolitan Police over its failure to investigate their murders. |
| Port was sentenced to life in prison last month for the murders of four men. | Port was sentenced to life in prison last month for the murders of four men. |
| Among his victims were Anthony Walgate, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. | Among his victims were Anthony Walgate, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor. |
| Relatives Sarah Sak, Amanda Pearson and Donna and Jenny Taylor told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the Met "must be held accountable". | Relatives Sarah Sak, Amanda Pearson and Donna and Jenny Taylor told the Victoria Derbyshire programme the Met "must be held accountable". |
| Donna and Jenny Taylor said they felt the Met played "a massive part" in their brother Jack's death. | Donna and Jenny Taylor said they felt the Met played "a massive part" in their brother Jack's death. |
| Donna said: "Stephen Port obviously took Jack's life but we feel that the police didn't do their jobs, with any of the families. | Donna said: "Stephen Port obviously took Jack's life but we feel that the police didn't do their jobs, with any of the families. |
| Apology too late | Apology too late |
| "As far as we're concerned, they have played a massive part in Jack's death because if they had done their jobs properly, Jack would still be here today. | "As far as we're concerned, they have played a massive part in Jack's death because if they had done their jobs properly, Jack would still be here today. |
| "There is no other way of looking at that and we feel we want them to be held accountable. We want the answers of why they didn't do this, didn't do that." | "There is no other way of looking at that and we feel we want them to be held accountable. We want the answers of why they didn't do this, didn't do that." |
| The officer in charge of the specialist crime and operations command has written to the families of the victims to apologies for missed opportunities and offer his condolences. | The officer in charge of the specialist crime and operations command has written to the families of the victims to apologies for missed opportunities and offer his condolences. |
| Meanwhile, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation. | Meanwhile, the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation. |
| But Sarah Sak told the programme the apology from the Met was "a little too late". | But Sarah Sak told the programme the apology from the Met was "a little too late". |
| 'Not a party boy | |
| She added: "I keep thinking this - if they were four girls would it have been different? If Anthony had been a 23-year-old girl and then Gabriel and then Daniel, if they had all been girls in that area found in suspicious circumstances, I think there would have been a lot more media coverage as well." | She added: "I keep thinking this - if they were four girls would it have been different? If Anthony had been a 23-year-old girl and then Gabriel and then Daniel, if they had all been girls in that area found in suspicious circumstances, I think there would have been a lot more media coverage as well." |
| Ms Sak continued: "He [Port] had planted GMB on them. [The Police thought] 'young gay lad. Oh he's had chemsex. Oh, done'. | |
| "They were like that from the beginning, they just refused to investigate anything, didn't matter what you said to them they [just kept telling us] there was nothing to investigate." | |
| Amanda Pearson added: "Daniel wasn't a party boy… they [the police] didn't want to know about the personality of my son, they didn't want to know really, they had made up their minds and that came across." | |
| And Jenny Taylor said: "We kept saying to them [the police] from the start if this was a woman you'd be doing a lot more that what you are." |