Black cab rapist John Worboys will NOT be released from prison for at least two more years, parole panel decides as prosecutors consider new sex assault and drugging allegations against him
- South London cabbie Worboys, 61, convicted of assaults on 12 women in 2008
John Worboys (pictured at a previous court hearing) will now not be released 11 months after a bungling parole board accepted his claims that he was no longer a danger to women
Black cab rapist John Worboys will be kept in prison for at least two more years as police revealed he may be charged with new sexual offences, it was revealed today.
Worboys, 61, was convicted of assaults on 12 women in 2008 but police believe he may have targeted more than 200 women in London and the Bournemouth area.
Yet in January a parole board horrified Britain when it decided he should be a free man after they accepted his own claim that he posed no longer posed a risk women.
In March, the release direction was quashed by the High Court who found his ‘no risk’ claims had ‘not been probed to any extent, if at all’ and ordered the case be reassessed.
Today that reassessment was completed and the dangerous sex offender was told ‘he is not suitable for release’ and he cannot apply for parole for at least two more years.
It has now emerged he may be charged with new offences and the CPS has been passed a file of evidence relating to new crimes allegedly committed between 1997 and 2007.
These include an alleged sexual assault and administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence, according to the BBC.
Known as the black cab rapist, he had been jailed indefinitely in 2009 with a minimum term of eight years after being convicted of 19 offences, including rape, sexual assault and drugging, committed against 12 victims.
Today the Parole Board, which has received more than 1,400 requests for details behind its decisions under a new scheme introduced following the John Worboys case, blocked his release.
The Government came under pressure to open up the organisation’s processes after it sparked huge controversy in January by ruling that Worboys was safe to be freed after around a decade behind bars.