the judge said port ’s victims , who survived .
judge says he accepts intention of chef , who murdered four men , was to cause serious harm rather than death the serial killer stephen port has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of four young gay men he drugged and raped before dumping their bodies near his east london flat .
” he said : “ the murders were committed as part of london ( cnn ) a serial killer who drugged and murdered four men he met on gay dating sites has been jailed for life .
port , a 41 - year - old canteen chef at a bus depot , had planted on two of the bodies .
investigators are now looking into 58 other unexplained deaths in london involving the drug .
stephen port , 41 , from london , was convicted of killing anthony walgate , 23 , gabriel kovari , daniel whitworth , 21 , and jack taylor , 25 , over a 15 - month period between june 2014 and september 2015 .
the 41 - year - old chef , who had a fetish for sex with unconscious boyish - looking men , was convicted on wednesday of the murders of anthony walgate , a 23 - year - old fashion student from hull , gabriel kovari , 22 , originally from slovakia , daniel whitworth , 21 , a chef from kent , and jack taylor , 25 , a forklift driver from dagenham .
but the police treated the deaths as unrelated cases of drug overdose and suicide , apparently taking at face value the fake suicide notes that mr.
port ’s victims were found slumped against walls in identical positions with their cellphones missing — a woman walking her dog found two of the bodies , in the same spot in a churchyard near mr.