Alleged serial killer Port 'selfishly' sought to pursue fetish, trial told
ALLEGED serial killer Stephen Port took the lives of four young men as he "selfishly" pursued his own sexual fetish, jurors were told.
Stephen Port allegedly killed for young men
The 41-year-old chef is on trial at the Old Bailey accused of murdering the men at his flat in Barking, Essex, by surreptitiously giving them overdoses of date rape drug GHB, then dumping their bodies nearby.
He also faces a string of sex charges including administering a substance and rape in relation to eight more men he met through gay dating websites.
In his closing speech, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told jurors to put aside feelings of "anger and disgust" at Port's behaviour.
The 41-year-old chef is accused of drugging and raping the men
He said it would be "inhuman" not to feel for the four dead men, and their families who had sat in court throughout the trial.
The lawyer also told jurors the case was not about Port's sexuality as it could just as easily be set within the straight community.
He said: "The prosecution case is not hard to understand because we say this defendant was driven by his seemingly insatiable appetite for sex with Twinks while they were unconscious.
The victims' family sat in court throughout the trial
The prosecution case is not hard to understand
"If, as we suggest, the defendant was motivated to penetrate unconscious young men, he needed to find a way of raping them against their will. The obvious solution was drugs."
Mr Rees said the evidence showed all four alleged murder victims died shortly after being with Port in his flat and eight more young men complained he had - or had tried to - take advantage of them sexually.
The prosecution said Port was driven by his seemingly insatiable appetite for sex
The prosecutor queried if it could be a "dreadful series of coincidences" resulting in the defendant being wrongly accused, as Port claims.
Or was it the case that Port had been "selfishly pursuing a fetish for drugging and raping unconscious Twinks?"
Mr Rees said: "Is this defendant unbelievably unlucky? Have circumstances conspired to point the finger at him? Or is he a very guilty man?"
Throughout cross examination, Port had been exposed as a "habitual and compulsive liar", Mr Rees said.
Port denies all 29 charges against him. The trial continues.