{"id":21915,"date":"2022-04-20T08:17:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=21915"},"modified":"2022-04-20T08:17:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T12:17:58","slug":"death-classifications-expanded-after-serial-killer-inquests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2022\/04\/20\/death-classifications-expanded-after-serial-killer-inquests\/","title":{"rendered":"Death classifications expanded after serial killer inquests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The national police approach to investigating unexplained deaths is to be reformed following the inquests for victims of serial killer Stephen Port.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“Basic failings” were identified in the police handling of the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Met Police and the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) have now said new classifications would provide “absolute clarity” for officers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Met said they will be used by July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stephen Port is serving a whole-life prison term for the four murders<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Stephen Port, now 47, is serving a whole-life sentence for the murder of the young men, along with the rape of a number of others. He killed Mr Walgate, Mr Kovari, Mr Whitworth and Mr Taylor with overdoses of the so-called “date rape” drug GHB, before leaving their bodies near his home in Barking, east London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He was briefly jailed for perverting the course of justice after being found to have lied about his involvement in the 2014 death of Mr Walgate, by which time he had murdered two more men. He killed his final victim, Jack Taylor, after being released early from prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The four new classifications are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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