Yahoo News Grindr killer and 'Britain's worst paedophile' had 'sexual relationship' in prison
Grindr killer Stephen Port is said to have had a sexual relationship with Richard Huckle - dubbed Britain’s worst paedophile - while the pair were in prison together.
Port and Huckle, became friends while behind bars at HMP Belmarsh in south east London - before the relationship turned sexual, according to Mirror Online.
The pair’s relationship was an “open secret” at the prison but they are now locked away in separate prisons.
A prison source told Mirror Online: “It's an open secret the two of them had sex, everyone knows about it.
“They were both in the max area of the prison but when the cells door are open those in that area can mix.
“You have 90 inmates being overseen by three guards, they can't see everything going on in every cell.”
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Port, 44, murdered at least four men who he met via the gay dating app Grindr.
He was sentenced to life in prison in November 2016 after it was found that he gave his victims date-rape drug GHB before raping and murdering them at his flat in Barking, east London.
Huckle, 32, was convicted of 71 counts of serious sexual account against children in Malaysia following his arrest at Gatwick Airport in 2014.
He was sentenced to a minimum prison term of 25 years in June 2016.
A report published by the Howard League for Penal Reform in 2015 claimed that consensual sex between inmates is both widespread and generally accepted.
