A serial killer in the United Kingdom, Stephen Port who was found guilty of murdering four young gay men he drugged and raped before dumping their bodies near his east London flat, has been has been sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison.

Port, a 41 year old chef, who had a fetish for sex with unconscious boyish-looking men, was convicted on Wednesday of the murders of Anthony Walgate, a 23-year-old fashion student from Hull, Gabriel Kovari, 22, originally from Slovakia, Daniel Whitworth, 21, a chef from Kent, and Jack Taylor, 25, a forklift driver from Dagenham. All four men died after being given fatal overdoses of the date-rape drug GHB, also known as G or liquid ecstasy.

Sentencing Port to a whole-life order, Justice Openshaw said: “I accept his intention was only to cause really serious harm rather than cause death but he must have known and foreseen there was a high risk of death, the more so after the death of Anthony Walgate, the first victim.” He said Port had carried out the murders to “satisfy his lust for penetrating young men he had rendered unconscious” through the “surreptitious” administering of drugs.

After delivering the sentence, there were loud cheers and applause from family members in court, while someone in the public gallery shouted out: “I hope you die a long, slow death, you piece of shit.”

The judge highlighted Port’s attempt to cover up two of his murders with a fake suicide note as “wicked and monstrous.”

Port was convicted of a total of 22 offences against 11 men, including drugging and sex offences against seven men who survived their encounters with him.