Student’s ‘rant at gay serial killer after he was drugged and knocked out in his flat’
Alleged victim tells court how ordeal began after he drunk liquid handed to him by Stephen Port, who is on trial for four murders
A TERRIFIED student woke up naked and 'paralysed' on a gay serial killer's bedroom floor after being drugged on a visit to his flat, a court has heard.
Stephen Port, 41, is accused of attacking a dozen victims to satisfy his fetish for sex with unconscious young men, with the gay serial killer saying "I'm sorry" after one of his victims complained: "I could have been killed."
Four died of an overdose of the party drug GHB and were found dumped near his one-bedroom flat in Barking, east London between June 2014 and September 2015, it is claimed.
The bus garage cook, who also worked as a male escort, is accused of murdering the four young victims as well as seven charges of rape in a string of sex attacks dating back to 2012.
Today his second alleged victim told how he was drugged by Port after meeting him on gay social networking website Fitlads.
The Muslim man, who does not drink or take drugs told the court how he met Port on three occasions, describing him as “a perfectly normal sane guy”.
But he said during the fourth visit Port pressured him to have a drink and, after refusing alcohol, accepted a glass of coke.
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He said: “When he gave it to me, as soon as I drank it, I felt like it was burning my throat like someone poured acid down my throat.”
The victim said he had not wanted to make any allegations because he was scared his parents would become involved.
But he said he wanted to find out what Port had given him, saying: "I tried calling him and tried messaging him because I was lying on my bed thinking, 'this is not right' and I need to find out what's happened. He must have given me something.
"I was angry and mad at him. I was shouting at him, 'what did you give me? Did you give me drugs? Was it Class A? Was it heroin?' I was so mad at him."
The man, now 25, said he could not get any information from Port.
He said: "I got the impression it was a normal thing. A normal thing what happened to me, a normal thing that he gave me.
"I got the impression he was a drug user and used drugs to enhance his sex life in order to get relaxed."
The alleged victim said he then turned up unannounced at Port's flat and secretly recorded their conversation on a mobile phone.
I was angry and mad at him. I was shouting at him, 'what did you give me? Did you give me drugs? Was it Class A? Was it heroin?' I was so mad at him
Victim of Stephen Port
"I told him 'I could have been killed, anything could have happened.
"I don't know what happened to me, but I told him, 'thanks for taking me to the station', but I needed to know what he gave me.
"He just said, 'I'm sorry'."
The victim said that the recording of the conversation had since been lost.
Port denied adding anything to his drink and jurors heard how the pair kissed and touched each other as a gay porn movie played on the television.
The alleged victim went back for a fifth visit on June 3 or 4, when he went into Port's bedroom soon after he arrived.
He said: “I was tired, so I was just relaxing on his bed and he was giving me a massage.”'
He then fell asleep briefly before waking up.
Port is then alleged to have handed him a drink telling him it was water.
But after downing the tasteless, odourless liquid he passed out, he said.
He said: “The next thing I remember is that I was on the floor screaming and shouting. It was like I was going mad.”
He described how he was naked and “panicking”, and continued: “I felt like I didn't have any control of my body.
“I was going out of my mind. I didn't like what was happening to me. Then he came on in.
“I remember them trying to hold me. he was putting clothes on me because I couldn't put clothes on myself.
“I never had any control of my body. I felt like I couldn't walk or stand up. I felt a bit paralysed.”
Port allegedly went on to murder Anthony Walgate, 23, in June 2014 and was jailed in March 2015 for perverting the course of justice after lying to the police about the death.
But by the time he was convicted he had gone on to kill two other men, it is claimed.
Slovakian Gabriel Kovari, 22, and 21-year-old chef Daniel Whitworth, from Gravesend, in Kent, were allegedly murdered within weeks of each other in August and September 2014.
Both, like Mr Walgate, had died of GHB poisoning and were found in an almost identical position in St Margaret's churchyard, in Abbey Green.
Port is said to have killed again just three months later, in September 2015, when forklift truck driver Jack Taylor, 25, was found near the same churchyard.
Port was allegedly obsessed with drug-rape pornography, featuring men and women being apparently raped while stupefied through drugs.
Port, formerly of Barking, east London, denies four counts of murder, four counts of manslaughter, four counts of administering a poison with intent to endanger life or inflict grievous bodily harm, seven counts of rape, six counts of administering a substance with intent to overpower to allow sexual activity, and four counts of sexual assault by penetration.
The trial continues.
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