Met Police failure to stop Stephen Port 'could happen again'
Met Police failings that allowed Stephen Port to murder four young gay men in London while avoiding detection 'could happen again'.
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Met Police failings that allowed Stephen Port to murder four young gay men in London while avoiding detection 'could happen again'.
A senior police official has said that it's possible a case like that of Stephen Port "could happen again."
The Metropolitan Police has still not learned from its calamitous litany of failures in the Stephen Port case - meaning the force could have missed other murders, according to a damning watchdog report.
I hoped to find a police force that had learned from its many mistakes, but even now I cannot give that assurance, says Matt Parr, HM Inspector of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services
Result later today. inspectors say the metropolitan police force is still failing to investigate deaths properly several years after serious flaws were exposed in the case of the serial killer stephen port. port is serving a whole life term for the murder of four men and a series of sex attacks in london in 2014 and 2015. the met accepts it needs to do more to prevent something similar happening again. helena wilkinson reports. stephen port poisoned anthony walgate, gabriel kovari, daniel whitworth and jack taylor with an overdose of a date rape drug at his flat in east london between june 201...