THE sister of alleged serial killer Stephen Port told jurors she felt “sick” with worry when he confessed he had a dead body in his bedroom.

Port, 41, is on trial at the Old Bailey charged with murdering four young men with lethal doses of date rape drug GHB after luring them to his flat in Barking, east London.

His sister Sharon Port, 44, who is from Clacton, gave evidence for the prosecution about what he told her in August 2014 around the time of the death of Slovakian Gabriel Kovari, Port’s alleged second murder victim.

She said she rang Port and during their conversation he told her there was a body in his bed.

She said: “I just asked him to tell me why he was stressed and what was wrong. He did not want to tell me at first. We had always been close and I’ve always looked out for him. He just said there was a body in his flat and I just told him to go to the police straight away.

Jonathan Rees QC, prosecuting, asked: “Did your brother explain as to how this came to be?”

Miss Port said: “Just that he stayed the night with my brother and when he woke up in the morning he wasn’t moving.

“They had taken drugs but I didn’t know what.”

She told jurors: “I was sick about it. It’s not the sort of thing you hear every day.

The court heard Miss Port drove to Barking and when she was en route, Port called to say he had been bailed by police.

The following March, when Port was jailed for perverting the course of justice, he told his sister the man who died was called Anthony and he was from Lithuania, the court heard.

It was only recently Miss Port discovered her brother also worked as an escort when she found a text confirming the cost of GBP165.

On the morning of August 28, dog walker Barbara Denham was walking her collie dog near a graveyard. There she saw Mr Kovari’s body slumped against the boundary wall.

  • Port denies 29 offences against a total of 12 men - including four murders, seven rapes, four sex assaults and administering a substance with intent. The trial continues.