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The online world is a force for good, but it's also [music] can be used for very bad things.
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Dating apps can offer this opportunity [music] to meet new people and explore sexuality. They can also pose some
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significant risks. These dating [music] apps, these hookup apps, can actually provide a source of
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victims for manipulators and abusers. And unfortunately, in this case, this was a killer.
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Gordon was using dating apps to explore sexual desires, sexual activities with other people.
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And >> [music] >> it was a chance encounter, somebody offering what he wanted. And Gordon
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Sample was last seen on CCTV at about 3:00 p.m. on Great Guildford Street. It was out of character for him as well not
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to have arrived home the normal time. So, at that [music] point, his partner became concerned and started to raise
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the alarm, being fearful that something had happened to Gordon. The murder created national headlines.
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It was such an awful way of killing somebody. Due to the condition of those human
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remains, it will take some time for the cause of death to be established and for formal identification to take
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place. It's one of the most extreme and heinous destructions of a human body that I've ever come across.