Victims of Worboys

SIR – It cannot be right for the Parole Board, when deciding whether a prisoner is safe to be released into the community, to take into account unproven allegations that have not been through the due process of law.

In the Worboys case it cannot be good enough for the police to say that they believed he had committed 100 additional cases over and above the 12 for which he was convicted.

The police together with the Crown Prosecution Service should have brought additional cases to be tried while he was serving the sentence for the 12 crimes he did commit. Then there could be no mistake, if they were proved, in further time being added to the sentence he is already serving.

Had that been done, as it should have been, Worboys’s victims would have had their say in court and justice would have been correctly served. Mina Bowater

Blandford Forum, Dorset