Forensic tests were not done on items found with the bodies, including the "suicide note" and a bedsheet, which were later found to have Port's DNA.

A jury ruled that all four men were unlawfully killed.

Port, having already killed Anthony Walgate in June 2014 (and received a suspended sentence for perverting the course of justice in that investigation), attempted to disguise the subsequent deaths.

A young man from Slovakia looking for work as a translator, Kovari met Port online in August 2014 and moved in as his flatmate. Days later, on August 28, 2014, his body was found propped up against a wall in the graveyard of St Margaret’s Church, near Port's home.