Stephen Port sentenced for murder of Hull man Anthony Walmgate
Stephen Port has been given a whole life sentence for murdering 4 men.
Serial killer Stephen Port has been told he'll die in prison.
The 41 year-old's been given a whole life jail term for the murders of four men - including Hull man Anthony Walmgate - who he met on gay dating apps.
There were cheers and applause from his victims' families as the sentence was announced in court.
The judge highlighted Port's attempt to cover up two of his murders with a fake suicide notes as wicked and monstrous''.
Earlier, statements from the loved ones of the four murder victims and one of Port's sex assault victims were summarised by prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC. The mother of Mr Walgate said the death of her son had devastated and broken the family''.
Adam, only brother of Mr Kovari spoke of the difficulty in telling their mother of his death, saying there is no pain greater than losing a child''.
Daniel Whitworth's father Adam said he had been given a life sentence of grief''. T
he family of Jack Taylor told how his murder had turned their lives upside down''.
Mr Rees said the Taylor family had been a model and picture of dignity'' in the trial - a view agreed by the judge.
In mitigation, David Etheridge QC, said that on the jury verdicts, in this period of his life, Stephen Port descended into a vortex'' in which drug taking fuelled his private life with satisfaction of his sexual desire.He graduated from a fetish to a fixation from a fixation to a compulsion,'' he said.