In June 2014, Anthony Walgate was found dead in a street in Barking, East London. The Metropolitan Police Service said there were no suspicious circumstances: it was another sad overdose. But the 23-year-old fashion student’s mother, Sarah Sak, and his friends refused to believe detectives.

Then, months later, two more young men were found dead nearby. Still, the police refused to link the deaths of Gabriel Kovari and Daniel Whitworth with Anthony’s.

Detectives were suspicious of Stephen Port, a chef who had reported Anthony’s death to emergency services. They’d even charged him with perverting the course of justice. But then, when a fourth young man was found dead, the inquiry took a darker turn.

This podcast charts Sarah Sak and fight for justice against Britain’s biggest police force, into the world’s most famous courthouse and face-to-face with one of England’s most notorious serial killers.

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