20 Facts About Stephen Port

Stephen John Port was born on 22 February 1975 and is a British serial killer and serial rapist.

Stephen Port was described as being a "loner" and was often bullied at school during his childhood.

Stephen Port's neighbour described him as having a peculiar, childlike personality, exhibiting odd behaviour as a grown man, such as playing with children's toys.

Stephen Port lived with his parents until his early thirties, then lived alone in a flat in Barking, London, and worked as a chef at a Stagecoach bus depot in West Ham.

Stephen Port briefly appeared on an episode of the television show MasterChef.

Stephen Port was described as having an athletic appearance at the time of the murders due to regularly going to the gym.

Stephen Port was bald and disguised this in public by wearing a blond toupee.

Stephen Port met his victims via online gay and bisexual social networks and dating or hookup apps, and constructed biographies in which he made false claims about his background, including one in which he pretended to have graduated from Oxford University and served in the Royal Navy.

The prosecution said that Stephen Port himself used a range of drugs, including amyl nitrite, Viagra, mephedrone, crystal methamphetamine, and GHB or GBL in its liquid form, but GHB was what he used to ply his victims: "postmortem examinations on the four young men who died revealed that each had died from a drug overdose featuring high levels of GHB".

The next day, Stephen Port placed Walgate's body outside the flat and made an anonymous call for an ambulance.

Stephen Port used a number of Internet hook-up sites and apps as a means of initially contacting his victims, including Sleepyboy, Grindr, Hornet, Fitlads, Badoo, Gaydar, Flirt, DaddyHunt, PlanetRomeo, Manhunt, Slaveboys and CouchSurfing.

The families of Stephen Port's victims were given compensation by the Metropolitan Police over their handling of the investigation into the killings.

Stephen Port's statement continued: "most concerning are the findings by the pathologist of manual handling prior to his death" and noted that "the bed sheet that he was found wrapped in was not forensically analysed, and the bottle of GBL which was found near him was not tested for fingerprints or DNA".

In 2015, Stephen Port was charged with four counts of murder and four of administering poison.

Stephen Port appeared via video link from HM Prison Belmarsh and denied all charges.

Stephen Port manipulated and controlled these men through the chilling and calculated use of the drug GHB, which he administered without their permission.

Stephen Port is incarcerated in HM Prison Belmarsh in Thamesmead, south London.

Stephen Port offered to be interviewed since he felt he might have relevant information regarding Kovari's last movements, but no one contacted him in response, even after he had organisations such as PinkNews contact the police on his behalf.

Stephen Port was sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 31 years.

In November 2018, it was announced that Stephen Port's appeal had been rejected.