John Worboys experts insist public backlash against them was WRONG after deeming the rapist fit for release
TWO experts whose evidence led to black cab rapist John Worboys being declared fit for release insist the public backlash against them was wrong.
The psychologists were slammed by the High Court last month for failing to thoroughly probe if the fiend was being “open and honest” with them.
But in a letter in The Psychologist journal, the unnamed pair said the public blundered by approaching the case in a “common sense fashion”.
Bizarrely, they claimed “sometimes common sense lets us down” and hinted Worboys, 60, posed less risk because he had repeatedly denied his guilt.
Citing a 2015 study of 7,000 UK sex offenders, the pair said its findings showed “those who took full responsibility for their offence sexually re-offended at a significantly higher rate than those who took partial or no responsibility for their offence”.
Warboys was jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum eight-year term for 19 sex offences against 12 women.
The ruling was overturned last month after a landmark legal challenge by two brave victims. A court bid by The Sun also won the right to reveal the Parole Board’s reasons, ripping up its strict secrecy rules.
Board chairman Nick Hardwick was forced to quit.
Three psychologists played key roles. One is said to be Dr Jackie Craissati, who has been accused of consistently urging leniency for sex offenders.
It is not clear if Dr Craissati was one of the authors of the letter.
Worboys eventually owned up to his crimes just before he first became eligible for parole. His lawyers instructed the first psychologist in August 2017.