Warboys' victims succeed in getting parole decision over-ruled in High Court

John Worboys

The legal challenge by two of John Worboys' victims to the decision by the Parole Board to release the rapist John Worboys has resulted in the decision being over turned and has prompted the board's chairman Nick Hardwick to resign.

The Parole Board praised the "bravery" of the women who brought the action.

60 year old Worboys, now known as John Radford, has served 10 years, including remand time, of an indeterminate prison sentence. He was convicted of one rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges - but police believe he committed crimes against more than 100 women between 2002 and 2008.

One of his victims was a woman from Putney whom he picked up outside a club on Tottenham Court Road on 21 December 2007. He raped her after driving her home with DNA evidence being used to convict him.

March 28, 2018