Worboys fooled the parole board but he didn’t fool us… he’s extremely dangerous
The lawyer who represented 11 of his victims says he knows just how manipulative and nasty John Worboys is
Worboys is clearly someone who is extremely dangerous and extremely manipulative.
We know from when we were dealing with him - which was back in 2013 - he still wasn’t admitting that he had committed any of these crimes.
We’re extremely concerned he’s gone and fooled the parole board into believing he is no longer a risk.
One of my female colleagues went to see him in prison and he was an extremely manipulative individual.
He was trying to talk her round to believing that he was actually a really nice guy and that he would be reasonable with our clients.
He’s a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
He tried to be charming, but I want to be clear, it didn’t fool us.
It’s absolutely terrifying for victims to think that the person, who only a few years ago committed these appalling crimes, is going to be back on the streets and at liberty.
That’s why it’s all the more important for the public to have proper information about what he has and hasn’t admitted.
If he’s still denying that he’s committed these crimes then he clearly has no remorse for his behaviour and therefore he must still be a continuing risk to the public.
If he’s admitting them then he’s saying that he had a systematic and deliberate technique of targeting vulnerable women, drugging them and then raping them and that’s something that should be considered as part of further prosecution.
As far as we know, the clients we’ve spoken to were not informed in advance of his release, which has got to be completely wrong under the victim’s code.
It’s absolutely outrageous that they had to find out from the media that a man who has completely devastated their lives is being let back into the public domain.
They shouldn’t have been put in this position.
Our clients who we’ve spoken to are very, very shocked.
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When he was jailed there was the assumption that he’d be put away for a very long time – and because he continued to deny the crimes that he was convicted for, everybody assumed he’d be locked up for ages.
The whole thing sends out a dreadful message to victims, that effectively as a society we are not treating these kinds of offences with the seriousness that they deserve and that’s completely unacceptable.
Richard Scorer is a specialist abuse lawyer from Slater and Gordon, which represented 11 of Worboys’ victims in a successful civil claim against the serial rapist