How Police Missed the Grindr Killer

How Police Missed the Grindr Killer

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 16, 2017

Runtime

0h 46m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

40%

Original Title

How Police Missed the Grindr Killer

Production Companies

BBC Northern Ireland

Director

Steven Grandison

Description

The story of how police repeatedly allowed a serial murderer to slip through their fingers. Stephen Port date-raped and murdered four young gay men in East London within fifteen months and dumped all four bodies within a few hundred metres of each other. The film tells the story through eyes of the families of Port's victims, unpicking how the police failed to properly investigate each of the deaths in turn. The police's assumptions that these young gay men had died from self-inflicted overdoses of chem-sex drugs allowed Port to continue raping and killing innocent young men.