Victims join mayor to resist rapist’s release

TWO VICTIMS of black-cab rapist John Worboys have joined the Mayor of London in mounting legal efforts to resist his controversial release.

The women, known DSD and NBV, formally lodged an application yesterday for a judicial review into the Parole Board’s decision, their solicitors said.

Lawyers also intend to present police and prosecutors with a dossier of allegations against Worboys, saying they were contacted by a “number of other victims”.

It came as Sadiq Khan, inset, launched his own legal battle at the High Court, saying he would fight to put the “safety of Londoners and the needs of victims first”.

The Parole Board provoked fury this month when it directed as Worboys’s release after a decade in prison. He was jailed indefinitely in 2009, with a minimum term of eight years, for drugging and sexually assaulting women passengers. Despite being convicted of 19 offences against 12 women, it is feared Worboys may have more than 100 victims. Mr Khan said: “I have lodged with the court an application for judicial review of the Parole Board’s decision to release the convicted rapist John Worboys. “It was an astonishing and deeply concerning decision that simply cannot go unchallenged. For victims, and all Londoners, it must be properly scrutinised in the courts. The chair of the Parole Board has welcomed this scrutiny.”