Black Cab rapist John Worboys ‘will die in jail’ after admitting drugging four MORE women to carry out sex attacks
BLACK Cab Rapist John Worboys could now die in jail after yesterday admitting drugging four more women.
The 62-year-old, who now goes by the name John Derek Radford, used a "stupefying or overpowering drug" on women who had hailed his taxi.
He had previously been jailed in 2009 for sex assaults on 12 women and at an Old Bailey hearing today, pleaded guilty to a string of further offences relating to four more women.
It comes after the Parole Board had last year agreed to release him from jail as he "no longer posed a risk to the public" - forced to overturn the move after a public outcry and a landmark legal challenge by his victims and The Sun.
A reassessment was then ordered, with the Parole Board ruling he should remain in prison citing his "sense of sexual entitlement" and a need to control women.
Police believe Worboys may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008.
Worboys today appeared via video link from Wakefield prison to plead guilty to the four new charges, speaking only to confirm his identity and enter his pleas.
The ex-cabbie, wearing spectacles and a light grey and green shirt, admitted to two counts of administering a "stupefying or overpowering drug" with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.
He also admitted two counts of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence under the Sexual Offences Act.
The first victim was picked up in Worboys' taxi after leaving a bar.
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 first trial at Croydon Crown Court in 2009, jurors were told Worboys picked up his victims in London's West End and plied them with champagne laced with sedatives on the pretext of celebrating a lottery or casino win.
Worboys, originally from Enfield, was convicted of 19 offences including one count of rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges.
He was jailed for at least eight years but was told he would be held in custody as long as he was deemed a danger to the public.
This defendant pulled over on a side road off the A40 served an alcoholic drink in a plastic cup, which she drank. That is her last memory that evening.
Jonathan Polnay
At an earlier hearing in the latest case, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay said: "The allegation is that in 2000 or 2001 (the first victim) left a bar in Dover Street and hailed a taxi. The prosecution case is the driver of that black cab was this defendant.
"He told her he had won money on the horses and was celebrating and claimed he had been a stripper with the Chippendales.
"He offered champagne and invited her to celebrate. She agreed.
"This defendant pulled over on a side road off the A40 served an alcoholic drink in a plastic cup, which she drank. That is her last memory that evening.
"She woke up the next day naked with her clothes left in a trail on the way to her bed."
The prosecutor continued: "In the late 2000s when there was considerable publicity about this defendant when he stood trial for a number of sexual offences she recognised the defendant as the taxi driver who had picked her up and in due course on December 13 2018 she picked him out in an identity parade.
"It is therefore the prosecution case this defendant did in fact administer a drug of sorts that caused her to lose consciousness.
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WERE it not for two brave victims and The Sun, serial rapist John Worboys would be on our streets today, freed by parole board halfwits.
Now, after admitting drugging four more women who came forward as a result of our publicity, he could get life.
Worboys lied to the parole panel about his crimes and his remorse. They swallowed the lot. How can we trust them with vital decisions over public safety?
We are proud of the campaign we helped run. Can Theresa May say the same of Justice Secretary David Gauke?
He did nothing.
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"All his previous convictions relate to a very particular, identical modus operandi - picking up women in taxis, claiming he had won money gambling, offered alcohol laced with a form of sedative."
Mr Polnay added the second complainant was a university student in London in 2003 when she was targeted after leaving a nightclub on New Oxford Street in what was "an identical method not only to the first count but a number of previous convictions and allegations three and four".
Worboys will face sentencing on September 2.
