Image: Three of the victims were found in the graveyard at St Margaret's Church, Barking Mr Walgate's death was instead put down to a fatal GHB overdose after the drug was found in blood and urine samples.
Port was not investigated on suspicion of murdering Mr Walgate - as police had not searched his computer despite seizing it after his arrest. He only served four months and was released in June 2015. Pleading guilty at Snaresbrook Crown Court in February, he was sentenced to eight months in prison. He was bailed and it wasn't until 15 January the following year that he was charged. Port said he dragged him outside his flat for fear of people thinking he might have been responsible for his death. He claimed he got into bed with him but started to panic at around 3am when he realised he was "rigid". Port left for work before Mr Walgate woke up, he told detectives, and came back to find him still sleeping.
He claimed his victim had taken drugs from a bottle and they had sex twice, but when Mr Walgate was about to leave, he had become very tired, so he stayed the night. When paramedics arrived along with the police they found Mr Walgate slumped against a wall outside Port's apartment block in Cooke Street - dead. Nobody heard anything from Mr Walgate until Port called an ambulance at 4.18am claiming: "There's a young boy, looks like he's collapsed outside… he could have had a seizure or something, or just drunk." He also told the friend he was going to take a pair of scissors with him should he need to defend himself. Mr Walgate told a friend he had received an escort booking in Barking, but was not convinced it was genuine, so gave them the details "in case I get killed". It was there he was contacted by Port, who offered him £800 for an overnight job. Living away from his family home in Hull, he occasionally worked as an escort through a website called Sleepyboys to earn some extra money. He was studying fashion at Middlesex University and living in rented accommodation in Golders Green, 17 miles away from Barking, in north London. Anthony Walgate was 23 when he was found dead outside Stephen Port's block of flats in the early hours of 19 June 2014.