Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
TAXI RAPIST WORBOYS FACING NEW CHARGES
Prosecutors considering fresh evidence
the board to look at the case again and its chairman Prof Nick Hardwick was forced to quit after the Government told him his position was “untenable”.
Prosecutors in the original case insisted they could only bring extra charges if there was fresh evidence or new cases were put before them.
Worboys was convicted in 2009 of 19 sex crimes but a High Court judge found he abused at least 100 victims in 13 years as a London cabbie. He is held at Wakefield Prison and has changed his surname to Radford. The first police reports on him came in 2002 but a string of failings by officers left him free to continue attacking women.
He picked them up in his taxi late at night, said he was celebrating large cash wins and then gave them sedative-laced champagne.
Over six years, 14 women told the police similar stories but they did not link the cases. Not till 2008, after three near-identical accounts, did officers realise they were dealing with a serial sex attacker.
The Met said in August: “Detectives investigating a number of allegations about non-recent sexual assault have interviewed a man of 61 under caution.
“An investigation was launched last January after a number of women contacted the police with information and officers sought early investigative advice from the CPS.”
ON POLICE FILE