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SERIAL killer Stephen Port used £132,689 of taxpayers’ money to try to evade justice – but bereaved relatives have been denied a penny.

Port, 42, who was found guilty in November of murdering four young men, racked up huge legal bills during his trial at the Old Bailey, where he was defended by top QC David Etherington.

The gay killer, who raped and murdered his second and third victims in London while on bail, was handed £79,734.71 for barristers and £52,955.50 for solicitors, a Freedom of Information request shows. To rub salt in the wound, it adds further legal costs are “yet to be paid”.

But families at the centre of other high-profile cases are being denied vital financial help in their own quests for justice.

Last week the widow of academic Jeroin Ensink, 42 – stabbed to death at Christmas by a paranoid schizophrenic let off an earlier knife rap by cops – told how she is fundraising to pay for legal representation at her husband’s inquest. Nadja Ensink- Teich, 37, said: “I’ve been denied legal aid, although both the CPS and police are legally represented, the police by a QC. That’s unfair.”

Kye Gbangbola and Nicole Lawler, whose seven-year-old son Zane who was poisoned by gas during the 2014 floods that battered Britain, were refused cash for a lawyer at a hearing into his death in Chertsey, Surrey. Public donations covered fees.

The Legal Aid Agency said: “Anyone facing a Crown Court trial is eligible for legal aid, subject to a strict means test.”