Stephen Port: watchdog to reinvestigate Met police inquiry

Independent Office for Police Conduct will reinvestigate way Scotland Yard handled deaths of serial killer's victims

The Metropolitan police are to be reinvestigated by the police watchdog over the handling of the murders of four young men by the serial killer Stephen Port as families of the victims believe a big question mark" remains over whether homophobia played any part in the flawed police inquiries into the killings.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said on Thursday it would re-examine how Scotland Yard investigated Port's killing spree in Barking, east London, from June 2014 to September 2015, after none of the 17 officers involved in the case faced disciplinary action.