Black cab rapist John Worboys as ‘dangerous now as day he was jailed’ and is ‘now likely to die behind bars’
BLACK cab rapist John Worboys is likely to die behind bars after being caged for life over four more sex attacks – as it’s revealed the fiend is as “dangerous as ever”.
The monster, 62, was jailed indefinitely for public protection with a minimum of eight years for attacks on 12 women in 2009.
But four more brave victims came forward after the Parole Board sparked outrage with its bungled decision to release the sex fiend last year.
The move was overturned following a public outcry and a landmark legal challenge by his victims and The Sun.
Worboys, who now goes by the name John Derek Radford,was today caged for life with a minimum of six years at the Old Bailey after admitting four more sex attacks.
He was handed two six-year jail terms to run alongside his two life terms – meaning he could now die behind bars if the Parole Board decide to never release him.
‘INSPIRED BY PORN’
The court heard how the brute is “potentially as dangerous” now as he was ten years ago when he was first sentenced.
And Worboys has “fantasised” about attacking women since 1986 – despite the Parole Board originally ruling he was an “open and honest” person.
Worboys has since admitted to a psychologist that he plied a total of 90 women with alcohol, and drugged a quarter of them, after being inspired by porn.
Police believe he may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008.
VICTIM ‘WOKE UP NAKED’
The court was told Worboys attacked the first victim in his cab after she left a bar on Dover Street in central London.
He claimed he had won money on the horses and told her he was a Chippendale stripper as he offered her champagne spiked with a “stupefying or overpowering drug”.
She woke up the next day “naked, with her clothes left in a trail on the way to her bed”.
The woman recognised Worboys seeing publicity about his case in 2009 and in December 2018 picked him out in an identity parade.
He attacked his second victim – a university student – in London in 2003 as she left a nightclub on New Oxford Street using laced champagne.
Black cab rapist's sickening crimes
WORBOYS was convicted of crimes against 12 women, although many more came forward to police.
The rapist used the same method to prey on almost every victim.
He would pick up women late at night and pretend he had won large amounts of money before plying them with champagne as part of supposed celebrations.
All the women made their allegations to police in early 2018, but the offences dated back to between 2000 and 2008 in London.
At his 2009 trial at Croydon Crown Court, Worboys was found guilty of one rape, five sexual assaults and an attempted assault, and 12 counts of administering a drug.
He was jailed indefinitely – an indeterminate sentence for public protection – with a minimum term behind bars of eight years.
The judge, Mr Justice Penry-Davey, said he could be in jail much longer and should not be freed until the Parole Board were sure he was no longer a danger to women.
But the Board sparked fury last year among his victims when it was announced he would be released from jail.
The controversial decision was later overturned after it was ruled he is too big a risk to walk free.
He admitted drugging four more women in June – although detectives believe Worboys was the prime suspect in more than 100 attacks dating back as far as 2002.
But she only fully began to remember what had happened when she fell pregnant.
Prosecutor Duncan Penny said: “When she was pregnant with her first son in 2013, she started having flashbacks of driving on the Westway having a tormenting anxiety that something bad had happened.
“When she was pregnant with her second child in 2017 she remembers him pushing the drink in her face and him helping her out of the cab when it was just getting light.”
In 2007, Worboys targeted his third victim as she left a club in Chelsea. Again, he offered the woman champagne and claimed he had won thousands of pounds at a casino.
He held up a plastic Sainsbury’s bag containing a bundle of banknotes as the victim took a couple of sips out of a plastic cup.
She woke the next day “dressed as normal” with a hangover.
GRISLY CRIME SPREE
The final victim had been out with pals in Fulham in 2007 or 2008 when she was also duped into taking a few sips of champagne.
All the women made their allegations to police in early 2018, but the offences dated back to between 2000 and 2008 in London.
Mr Penny said: “The constant theme throughout, together with the content of what actually took place as far as each of the victims is concerned, can be summed up to be the permanent effect of not knowing what happened has had on each of these women throughout their lives as a result of having been unfortunate to get into the defendant’s black cab.”
Worboys, from Enfield, North London, pleaded guilty to two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.
RAPE ‘TOOL KIT’
He also admitted two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence under the Sexual Offences Act.
The monster was first jailed in 2009 after giving his victims drug-laced champagne before attacking them in the back of his black cab.
Only six out of more than 80 women who came forward to police refused the drink.
A rape chilling “tool kit” hidden in the footwell of his cab included condoms, plastic gloves and a sex toy.
But in January 2018, ex-Parole Board chief Nick Hardwick said that while his victims would find the judgement difficult, he was “confident” Worboys wouldn’t reoffend.
A damning Parole Board report revealed last year how Worboys required more counselling and detailed the graphic threat he still poses as they refused to release him.
They said he has a “sense of sexual entitlement”, believed that “rape is acceptable” and a “need to have sexual contact with women and to control women”.
