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<\/a><\/p>\nTrial has begun for Stephen Port, the London man<\/a> charged with murdering four gay<\/a> men<\/a> after drugging them with GHB, and sexually assaulting eight others.<\/p>\n The Independent<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n Mr Port is accused of 29 charges including four murders, seven rapes, four indecent assaults and administering a substance with intent. It is alleged he secretly drugged 11 out of his 12 victims to render them unconscious. He denies all the allegations against him.<\/p>\n At trial today, the court heard that Port, who used Grindr and other hook-up websites to meet his victims and lure them to his home, was obsessed with ‘drug-rape’ pornography and filmed himself having sex<\/a> with the victims while they lay unconscious.<\/p>\n Port drugged his victims by spiking their drinks or injecting drugs into their bodies.<\/p>\n The BBC adds<\/a>:<\/p>\n The victims were: Anthony Walgate, 23, originally from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, east London.<\/p>\n Prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC said the defendant was attracted to smaller, boyish men<\/a> he referred to as “twinks<\/a>” who he would invite to his one-bed flat on Cooke Street in Barking.<\/p>\n The jury heard the accused lied to police about his involvement with the dead men<\/a>. The bodies of all four victims were found near on in a churchyard about 400m from Mr Port’s home.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said that Port tipped off police to his first murder victim, Mr. Walgate, by reporting that he had collapsed outside his apartment.<\/p>\n The Guardian<\/em> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n “The prosecution say this is a case about a man<\/a> – the defendant – who, in the pursuit of nothing more than his own sexual gratification, variously drugged, sexually assaulted and in four cases killed young gay<\/a> men<\/a> he had invited back to his flat,” Rees said.<\/p>\n …He had the propensity “to render young gay<\/a> men<\/a> unconscious with drugs without their consent so he could have sex<\/a> with them in that state. That was his particular inclination, his particular fetish, and what turned him on,” said Rees.<\/p>\n The jury heard that Port used a range of drugs: poppers or bottles of amyl nitrite; viagra; M – also referred to as Meow Meow; T or Tina, a name for crystal meth; and G, either GHB or GBL in its liquid form.<\/p>\n The trial will continue.<\/p>\n The post Stephen Port Drugged, Sexually Assaulted, and Killed Four Gay Men He Met Online, Court Hears<\/a> appeared first on Towleroad<\/a>.<\/p>\nRELATED: Police Seek Public’s Help in Case Against Accused Gay Serial Killer Stephen Port<\/a><\/em><\/h2>\n