Black cab rapist is jailed for life

Warboys spiked drinks of four women

CRIME: Black cab rapist John Worboys has been jailed for life with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more victims, as the Old Bailey heard he remains as “dangerous” as ever.

The predator, already in jail for attacking 12 women, had pleaded guilty to spiking the drinks of an additional four women who came forward last year.

BLACK CAB rapist John Worboys has been jailed for life with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more victims, as the Old Bailey heard he remains as “dangerous” as ever.

The 62-year-old predator, who is already in jail for attacking 12 women, had pleaded guilty to spiking the drinks of an additional four women who came forward last year.

The court heard Worboys had since admitted to a psychologist that he plied a total of 90 women with alcohol, and drugged a quarter of them, after being inspired by pornography.

Worboys told psychiatrists he had been “fantasising” about his crimes since 1986, and was motivated by “hostility towards women”.

A probation report in August this year found: “He is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence.”

Sentencing, Mrs Justice McGowan said he remains “dangerous.

The court heard how Worboys was locked up indefinitely for public protection with a minimum of eight years in 2009, after being found guilty of 19 sex ofmitting

fences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.

Last year, the Parole Board overturned a decision to release him, and ruled that he should remain in prison, citing his “sense of sexual entitlement”.

As a result of the publicity, fresh victims came forward to report attacks dating back to 2000, meaning Worboys had been comcrimes up to six years longer than previously thought.

Worboys, from Enfield, north London, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault, and two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence.

Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC told how the first victim was picked up by Worboys in 2000 or early 2001, after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street.

Worboys said he was celebrating a win on the horses, and had previously worked as a Chippendales stripper, before he pulled into a side road off the A40 and plied her with red wine.

Mr Penny said: “The last memory she had was finishing drinking the wine. She had no further memories to what took place that evening until she woke up the next day at her home address. She was naked in bed with her clothes laid out in a trail.”

The other victims were a student attacked in 2003 after getting into his taxi in New Oxford Street; a woman who got into Worboys’ cab after a night out in the King’s Road in 2007; and a woman who was attacked in 2007 or 2008. Ali Bajwa QC, in mitigation, said the defendant, also known as John Radford, had expressed “sincere” remorse.