MP: Met Police like Inspector Clouseau in serial killer case

A BLACK Country MP has compared The Met Police to the incompetent Pink Panther detective Inspector Clouseau following its widely criticised handling of the case of serial killer Stephen Port.

Port will spend the rest of his life in jail for murdering four young men with overdoses of the date rape drug GHB.

Police admitted they “missed opportunities” to catch the killer sooner and are re-examining another 58 deaths amid fears Port could have murdered others.

Speaking in Home Office questions this week, Labour MP David Winnick (Walsall North) said two of the murdered young men could still be alive today if the police had acted differently.

He said: “The person convicted will spend the rest of his life in prison, but is the Home Secretary aware of the murder of four young men who, if the police had acted differently in London, two of the lives may well have been saved?

“It’s unfortunate to say the least that the Met seems, on occasions when investigating murder, to act on the sort of model of Inspector Clouseau.”

Home Office Brandon Lewis said he would look into the case.

Port killed Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth and Jack Taylor in strikingly similar ways - drugging them before dumping three of their bodies in a graveyard near his flat in Barking, east London. Mr Taylor’s family have said they plan to sue the police for failing to properly investigate the earlier deaths.

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