As the sentence was handed down by Mr Justice Openshaw, shouts of “scumbag” and “I hope you die a long, slow, painful death, you piece of s***” rang out in the Old Bailey as the twisted chemsex killer was sent away for the rest of his life.

Stephen Port seen without his trademark blonde toupee was convicted of four murders and a string of other offences

41-year-old celebrity chef Stephen Port trawled gay chat sites to meet his young victims and lure them to his apartment

The real Stephen Port, seen without his blonde toupee guise, in his police interview after he was finally arrested for the murders last year

After raping and killing his chosen ‘twinks’ Port dumped his victim’s bodies near a graveyard in Barking, East London, and began an elaborate cover-up. He would fabricate a web of misleading clues for investigators, dispose of victim’s phones.  He planted a fake suicide note on a victim, Daniel Whitworth, blaming him for the death of Gabriel Kovari. The two never met.
Justice Openshaw branded Port’s elaborate attempts to hide how his victims died as “wicked and monstrous lies” adding: “The defendant will die behind bars”.
Port showed no emotion as the judge outlined his “dreadful” crimes, occasionally glancing at the press bench before returning his gaze to the ground.

Jack Taylor’s family address the media outside the court in London, Wednesday after serial killer Stephen Port was convicted of his murder

Outside court the family of Jack Taylor joining other victims; families in condeming the serial killer, branded Port a “sick and twisted scumbag”.
Serial killer chef Stephen Port guilty of murdering four men by poisoning them
Earlier, statements from the loved ones of the four murder victims and one of the men Port sexually assaulted were summarised by prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC.
Gabriel Kovari’s brother Adam, spoke of the difficulty in telling their mother of his death, saying “there is no pain greater than losing a child”.
One of the survivors of Port’s peculiar brand of sexual attacks, who remains anonymous, said blamed himself for not reporting the assault sooner saying he could have avoided Mr Taylor’s death if he had.

“All of the offending behaviour was driven by one main factor, namely the defendant’s appetite for having sexual intercourse with younger, gay males while they were unconscious through drugs.”
Defense counsel David Etheridge,  mitigating, told the court his client  “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 in describing Port as a man obsessed with drug-rape pornography, and lusted after smaller, boyish-type men known in gay slang as twinks. He even who filmed himself having sex with unconscious men.
Port was found guilty of four murders and numerous other sexual offences , including the rapes of three other men he drugged for sex – after a trial at the Old Bailey.