The discovery of two young men lying dead in the same churchyard just weeks apart was “unusual” and “slightly confusing”, the local police chief admitted, but there was “nothing suspicious” about it.
It was the summer of 2014 and I was running the news desk at a local paper in a busy, multicultural suburb of east London.
We know now that the men in the churchyard were Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth and that both had been murdered by the serial killer Stephen Port in Barking town centre. Port had also killed a third man, Anthony Walgate, in very similar circumstances weeks earlier.
