DESCRIPTION
St Margaret’s Church is located in Barking, in East London. The church is surrounded by grassland and lies on the same grounds as an abbey which has fallen into ruin.
During the summer of 2014, the churchyard would be the location where two young men would be found, weeks apart. Both had died from an apparent overdose of GHB, otherwise known as liquid ecstasy.
Both men, in their early 20s, were similar in stature and openly gay. The police attributed the first death to an accidental overdose and the second to suicide, with neither of them being deemed suspicious. According to police, the two young men had known each other. The second had taken his life as he couldn’t live with the knowledge that the first man had died from a drug overdose while the two men were having sex.
One year later, a third man fitting the same description as the previous two was found dead, next to the churchyard.
While the police still believed the three deaths to be a coincidence, it was the body of a fourth man found dead only 500 metres from the churchyard, in June 2014, that would lead investigators to the front door of Stephen Port…
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MUSIC
Now You Are Here by Sergey Cheremisinov
Labyrinth by Sergey Cheremisinov
Cylinder Two by Chris Zabriskie
Cylinder Eight by Chris Zabriskie
What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X by Chris Zabriskie
Cylinder Four by Chris Zabriskie
Crystal Echoes by Sergey Cheremisinov
All music sourced from http://freemusicarchive.org and used under an Attribution License - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
MAIN REFERENCES
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Port
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38045742
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/05/families-of-stephen-ports-victims-seek-witnesses-for-possible-action-against-police
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jan/03/stephen-port-victims-landlord-i-felt-i-hit-a-brick-wall-with-the-police
http://www.itv.com/news/2016-11-23/the-four-young-murder-victims-of-serial-killer-stephen-port/
https://www.ipcc.gov.uk/news/stephen-port-investigation-moves-interview-phase
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38077859
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