Accused serial killer: ‘I wrote suicide note in exchange for sex’

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An alleged gay serial killer today (Fri) told jurors he wrote the ‘suicide note’ found on a young man’s dead body in exchange for sex.
Stephen Port, 41, said Daniel Whitworth, 21, dictated the letter to him after taking party drugs Miaow Miaow and GHB in his flat in Barking, east London.
The bus garage cook claimed the young chef had earlier confessed to being involved in the death of Gabriel Kovari, 22.
Both Mr Kovari’s and Mr Whitworth’s lifeless bodies were found in exactly the same spot in the graveyard of Barking Abbey within weeks of each other.
Mr Whitworth was clutching a ‘suicide note’ in which he said he had given the Slovakian  a lethal dose of GHB while having sex, and urged readers not to blame ‘the man I was with last night.’
Port admitted he had added the comment himself, fearing he could be implicated.
He said he thought it ‘was just the G talking’ and that Mr Whitworth would never go through with it.
Asked by his barrister why he wrote the note, Port said: ‘He said if you do this for me, I will let you f*** me.’
Port said he fell asleep and never saw Mr Whitworth again.
Asked if he was concerned about him, he said: ‘No, I was still feeling quite horny when I woke up. I had a quick shower put my laptop on and started watching porn.’
Giving evidence at the Old Bailey, Port told jurors Mr Kovari moved into his flat on 23 August 2014, but told him three days later he was going to stay with a ‘soldier guy’ he met on Grindr.
‘He just said he had been offered somewhere else to stay. He would be picked up shortly,’ he said.
Port claimed a man in his Fifties with white hair called Tony, who had an Irish accent, arrived at around 3.30pm and went for a walk with Mr Kovari.
‘I asked him how it went. He said, “fine, I’m going to stay with him later, but first I’m going to a party,’ he said.
‘A sex and drugs party.’
Port said he also went to the party in Ilford, Essex, where there were about six men taking drugs.
He said a man he now knows was Daniel Whitworth offered him a beer and a shot of GHB and coke.
‘He was friendly with Gabriel,’ Port continued before explaining how he and Gabriel continued to take drugs until about midnight.
‘Gabriel came over to me and asked if he could take Dan back to mine. I said, “yes, you’ve got the keys. Keep it tidy.
‘The Irish guy, Tony, gave them a lift back to my flat.’
Port said he stayed to have sex with an 18-year-old called Sam, heading back to his flat at around 3 or 4pm the following day.
‘The door was unlocked. I just looked around, it was quiet. No one was there, they were all gone.
‘The living room was a bit of a mess, the coffee table had been moved, there was a smashed glass and spilt coke on the table.’
Port said all Mr Kovari’s belongings were gone and he presumed he had gone to stay somewhere else.
His body was found in the graveyard of Barking Abbey on 28 August 2014, but Port claimed he did not find out what happened to him until he was told by Mr Kovari’s boyfriend on Facebook.
On 18 September 2014, Port said he met Mr Whitworth at Barking train station after chatting to him online and recognised him from the earlier party.
‘I explained to him I had spoken to his partner from Spain online. He told me Gabriel had died.’
Port claimed Mr Whitworth then told him how he took men to parties in exchange for drugs.
‘He was going to help him move his cases and they stopped off to have some fun outside first in the churchyard.
‘He said they took some more G and snorted more lines of M. They had sex behind a tree in a dark corner of the churchyard.’
Port claimed Mr Whitworth told him they both fell asleep, but Mr Kovari did not wake up.
‘He said he tried to rouse him, tried to bring him round,’ Port continued.
‘He couldn’t. He looked like he stopped breathing. He tried giving him mouth-to-mouth and pushing his chest, but he couldn’t rouse him so he sat him up against the wall.’
Port is said to have attacked a dozen male victims to satisfy his fetish for sex with unconscious young men.
Anthony Walgate, 23, Mr Kovari, Mr Whitworth and Jack Taylor, 25, were allegedly murdered with lethal doses of date-rape drug GHB after meeting Port on gay hook-up sites, including Grindr.
Three were found propped up in a graveyard yards from the bus garage cook’s one-bedroom flat in Barking, east London and one had a ‘fake suicide note’ in his hand.
Port was finally arrested on 15 October last year after police linked the similar deaths.
Port, formerly of (62) Cooke Street, Barking, denies four counts of murder, four counts of manslaughter, four counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm, seven counts of rape, six counts of administering a substance with intent to overpower to allow sexual activity, and four counts of sexual assault by penetration.
The trial continues.

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An alleged gay serial killer told jurors today (Fri) that having sex with unconscious men ‘gets a bit lonely’.

Stephen Port, 41, is said to have murdered four young men to satisfy his fetish for ‘drug-rape’ porn.

The bus garage cook said having sex with one former partner was ‘like f***ing a ragdoll’ and admitted filming himself having sex with another sleeping man.

But he said: ‘It’s like having sex on your own so it gets a bit lonely and not fun at the end.’