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A man has been charged with murdering four men, including a warehouse worker, a student and a would-be chef.

Stephen Port, 40, of Cooke Street, Barking, east London, is accused of killing the men in the area between June 2014 and September this year, Scotland Yard said...  'Mr Port has also been charged with four counts of poisoning with intent to endanger life.He will appear at Barkingside Magistrates' Court on Monday'.

The charges relate to the deaths of:

• Anthony Patrick Walgate, 23, from Barnet, who was pronounced dead on Cooke Street on 19 June 2014
• Gabriel Kovari, 22, from Lewisham, whose body was found near the churchyard of St Margaret's Church, North Street, Barking, on 28 August 2014
• Jack Taylor, 25, from Dagenham, whose body was found near the Abbey Ruins close to North Street on 14 September this year
• Daniel Whitworth, 21, from Gravesend, Kent, whose body was also found near the same churchyard on 20 September 2014

Jack Taylor was a night-duty fork-lift truck driver at a warehouse and was last seen by friends on a night out in Barking on 13 September.

This is a horrific story and shows how nobody knows whats round the corner. Stephen Port met these young men online and invited them back to his house, where he drugged and killed the men, then dumped them just a 5 minute walk from his home. I think its terrible how the authorities have taken this long to find this murderer as the first killings where just months apart and then Jack Taylor was found almost a year later. i see this as poor investigation and it wouldn't be easy for the families who didn't know who killed their relatives, and it shouldn't have taken this long to link them together.