A psychologist said to have recommended the release if the black cab rapist has spent 30 years calling for softer sentences for sex offenders, it has been revealed.
John Worboys is set to be freed from prison nine years after he was jailed indefinitely following his conviction for sexually assaulting 12 female passengers.
His release was signed off by the Parole Board following a report by Dr Jackie Craissati, a renowned clinical psychologist hired by Worboys’ defence team.
It has now been revealed that Dr Craissati has campaigned for soft justice for sexual predators and paedophiles, who she claims should be ‘treated’ in the community.
John Worboys (left) will be released after it was signed off by the Parole Board following a report by Dr Jackie Craissati (right)
Guido Fawkes reported that she will also host a lecture on the ‘myths’ surrounding sex offenders at Goldsmiths University in London this month.
Four years ago, she argued that there were different levels of severity of child abuse in a paper entitled ‘Can paedophiles be good people?’
She also criticised the media coverage of child molesters, claiming that it made them ‘defensive, anxious, withdrawn, uncooperative’.
In 2014, she argued that society should only be worried by 25 to 33 per cent of those who view child pornography.
Describing paedophiles in the same year, she said: ‘If you look at child sex offenders with victims under 16, only 30 per cent meet the clinical definition of paedophile.
‘Although child molesting is necessarily sexual, the sexual element is only one part of a more complicated psychological explanation.’
Police found a rape kit in the back of Worboys’ taxi which including sleeping tablets, condoms and an ashtray he used to crush the drugs (top right)
When contacted by MailOnline today, Dr Craissati declined to comment.
Worboys is due to be released from prison less than 10 years after he was jailed for drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women and raping one.
But police said they believe he could have attacked up to 102 victims — lawyers believe the were 105.
The 60-year-old was assessed to no longer be a danger to the public by a panel of three people, who approved his released on licence with 14 secret restrictions.
However, his victims – who were attacked between 2002 and 2008 – only found out though the media.
A letter by Parole Board chief executive Martin Jones conceded that victims and the public would ‘find it impossible’ to understand the decision.
The rapist’s ex-wife Jean Clayton is pictured left, near her home in Yambol, Bulgaria. Right, Worboys arrives at Sutton Magistrates Court ahead of a preliminary hearing into his rape trial
Worboys, a former porn actor and stripper, attacked numerous women during a five-year period between 2002 and 2008.
Many of his victims were young women who had been drinking in trendy night spots in the West End and Chelsea.
On several occasions he offered to drive a woman home for a fraction of the normal cost, or even for free, claiming that he lived in their direction.
But once he had them secure in his taxi, the driver – who occasionally used the name Paul or Tony – would put his plan into action.
His constant theme was sex and often asked the women if they would perform sex acts for varying amounts of money, or exposed himself.
He took trophies from his victims, including a wristband from one and scribbled the names and addresses of several others in a notebook.
During the seven week trial, victim after victim told how they felt safe with the middle-aged driver because they were stepping into a registered black London taxi.
Most of the women were young professionals – lawyers, insurance brokers, office workers or journalists.
One victim was a new mother out celebrating for the first time with her friends.
He offered the women cheap lifts home after nights out, telling them he had just won thousands on a bet and wanted to celebrate.
To aid his pretence, Worboys kept as much as £4,000 in cash stashed in a plastic bag which he showed his victims as evidence of his win.
The rapist would convince the women to share a glass of wine or champagne with them, spiking the drinks with sleeping pills.
The drugs left the women insensible and unable to protect themselves as he pounced on them in the back of the vehicle.
Police also found a ‘rape kit’ in the back of his taxi which including sleeping tablets, condoms, gloves and an ashtray he used to crush the drugs.
Worboys, who called himself Terry the Minder, was jailed indefinitely in April 2009 with a minimum tariff of eight years.
A report published after his conviction found there was a ‘mindset’ among police that the driver of a black cab was unlikely to be responsible for a sex attack.
The paper by the Independent Police Complaints Commission discovered a catalogue of missed opportunities, errors of judgment and failures by Scotland Yard had left Worboys free to prey on women.
Bungling police who didn’t believe black cabbie could carry out crimes
A victim of Worboys called for police officers who laughed at her and left her feeling like a criminal to be sacked following his conviction.
The former Greenwich University student, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was attacked in the back of Worboys’s black cab in July 2007.
She passed out after drinking spiked champagne and being forced to swallow pills. The woman cannot remember any of her ordeal as she travelled from a Covent Garden party to her New Eltham digs.
She spoke after a damning report found a series of appalling police blunders left Worboys free to attack dozens of women.
Police found a ‘rape kit’ in the back of his taxi which including sleeping tablets, condoms and gloves
The report found there was a ‘mindset’ among police that the driver of a black cab was unlikely to be responsible for a sex attack.
A paper by the Independent Police Complaints Commission also found a catalogue of missed opportunities, errors of judgment and failures by Scotland Yard left Worboys free to prey on women.
The woman said two officers ‘just laughed’ at her when she told them.
She said the uniformed officers were ‘intimidating’ and ‘patronising’ and did not take her seriously as they delayed taking her statement and were late collecting CCTV.
Sarah Craigie (pictured) encountered the evil of Worboys in May 2007
The woman added police could have stopped Worboys ‘a very long time ago’ if officers had ‘done their job better’.
She said she was also poorly treated by a specialist sexual offences investigative techniques officer who gave her false information about the progress of the case.
Two crucial opportunities to stop him sooner were missed – in 2003 when a key witness was not interviewed and in July 2007 when his arrest was bungled, his taxi was not searched and he was allowed to go free.
The IPCC report said seven women were attacked between July 2007 when he was first arrested and February 2008 when he was finally caught.
But police estimate that Worboys, who was known to attack up to three women per night, could have attacked 40 victims in that period.
The watchdog found detectives refused to believe victims and one woman said she was laughed at, intimidated and ‘made to feel like a criminal’ when she reported the attack.
Five officers have now been disciplined, but no one has been sacked over the botched inquiry.
Instead they received written warnings and ‘words of advice’ to the outrage of victims who say scores of lives have been ruined unnecessarily.