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Shocking. A very good and thorough piece of reporting by the BBC though.
Something about that case didn't sit right when it first came to court, the bodies being found so close but so far apart chronologically - it all makes sense now.
I know the Met aren't exactly Poirot but fuck some of those oversights are mind boggling. It's pretty hard to draw a conclusion other than institutionalised homophobia.
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Good report tonight on the institutional homophobia in the Met which stopped them from properly investigating the murders of multiple gay men in Barking.
The clues they didn't follow up, and the fact that they basically only made the case when it had been handed to them by victims' friends is shocking.
As one guy on BBC News said, "It's like they think that's what gay men do. Take drugs and then die in cemeteries."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38045742