Drug dealer that sold GHB to serial killer jailed

A drug dealer believed to have unwittingly supplied Stephen Port with GHB that he used to kill at least one of his victims has been jailed for two and a half years.

Peter Hirons, 48, sold drugs to the killer hours before he murdered forklift truck driver Jack Taylor, 25, with a lethal injection.

When police analysed Hirons' account on gay dating app Grindr after his arrest in October last year, they found he supplied Port with "Liquid G (GHB), poppers, T and M (crystal meth and MDMA)" between August and October.

Hirons' activity on the app also showed Mr Taylor previously refusing to take drugs, saying he would lose his job as a forklift truck driver if he failed a drug test. The two men had coincidentally hooked up via Grindr in June 2015.

Three months later, Port met Mr Taylor at Barking Station after meeting via Grindr and later killed him dumping his body in a graveyard.

Hirons admitted six drugs charges and one of possession of criminal property in October and was jailed at Snaresbrook Crown Court on November 8.