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John Worboys

March 2023

  • Carrie Johnson

    Carrie Johnson reveals fears over release of serial rapist John Worboys

    Johnson backing campaign by family of Joanna Simpson against proposed release of her killer Robert Brown

September 2022

  • Harriet Wistrich

    My clients were John Worboys’ victims. The bill of rights would undo their victory

    Harriet Wistrich
    Dominic Raab’s proposed changes deny rights to hold public bodies to account, as two women did over black-cab rapist case

October 2021

  • David Davis

    Be warned: this government is robbing you of your right to challenge the state

    David Davis
    The bill designed to prevent government actions being reconsidered in the courts is un-conservative and undemocratic, says the Conservative MP David Davis

June 2021

  • Catherine Bennett

    Can women rely on the Parole Board getting it right if it frees men like Colin Pitchfork?

    Catherine Bennett
    The law promises females better protection from violent men. But freeing the murderer is troubling

February 2021

  • John Worboys

    Rapist John Worboys loses appeal against two life sentences

    Black-cab driver received the additional sentences in 2019 after more victims of attacks came forward

June 2020

  • man in hoodie, rear view, being cuffed by two police officers

    ‘Rough sex’ defence led to over 60 victims having to deny giving consent, finds research

    Defence was used in 67 cases over 10 years, says campaign group, which wants it banned

December 2019

  • John Worboys

    John Worboys given two more life sentences for additional attacks

    Old Bailey hears black-cab rapist confessed to targeting 90 women with spiked alcohol

November 2019

  • Victoria Atkins, a Home Office minister

    Tories pledge to allow victims and media into parole hearings

    Commitment follows outcry over proposed release of serial sex attacker John Worboys

September 2019

  • John Worboys

    Victim forced to give evidence as Worboys bids to avoid life term

    Rapist was jailed indefinitely in 2009 for offences against 12 women, but many others have since come forward

June 2019

  • John Worboys

    John Worboys admits drugging four more women

    Sex attacker pleads guilty at Old Bailey seven months after his release was overturned

February 2019

  • John Worboys

    Crime victims get power to challenge prisoners’ release

    Outrage over John Worboys case leads to reform of the Parole Board process

December 2018

  • Harriet Wistrich at the high court

    2018: what happened next?
    What happened next? The lawyer who took on John Worboys – and showed how the justice system fails women

    The parole board’s decision to release the black cab rapist was met with shock and outrage. Harriet Wistrich fought the decision, and won, but says there will be many more similar cases in future

November 2018

  • Gaby Hinsliff

    First thoughts
    John Worboys is to stay in prison. But why was release ever recommended?

    Gaby Hinsliff
    It took a public outcry and a high court challenge from his victims to stop the serial rapist’s release, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
  • John Worboys

    John Worboys must stay in prison, says Parole Board

    Reassessment of case of serial sex attacker jailed in 2009 follows public outcry last year
  • Local people standing holding placards stating ‘Justice for Grenfell’ during the monthly silent march for the Grenfell Tower fire victims, London, 14 November 2017

    Twenty years on, the Human Rights Act has proved its worth

    Scott Dawes
    For soldiers’ families, Hillsborough relatives and victims of John Worboys the act has been vital in their quest for justice, says Scott Dawes, government relations manager for Amnesty International UK

August 2018

  • John Worboys drugged, sexually assaulted and raped women in the back of his black cab in London.

    John Worboys questioned about further sexual abuse allegations

  • Nick Hardwick, the former Parole Board chair

    Justice secretary wrong to push Parole Board chair to quit, judge rules

July 2018

  • Nick Hardwick

    John Worboys case shows Parole Board is not independent, court to hear

    Prisoner due for parole says controversy over sex offender’s release means board will ‘exercise undue caution’

June 2018

  • Nick Hardwick

    Nick Hardwick: 'I’m not overjoyed that my career has been sacrificed for John Worboys'

  • Former Parole Board chair Nick Hardwick

    Parole boss quit after justice secretary 'threatened to get macho'

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