Black cab rapist John Worboys to appeal life sentences for drugging and attacking female passengers
BLACK cab rapist John Worboys is set to appeal his life sentences for attacking women.
Worboys, 63, is mounting a challenge to his two life terms, which is due to be heard in the Court of Appeal tomorrow.
The former stripper was jailed in 2009 for 19 sex attacks on 12 women.
The Parole Board decided he could be released in 2018 but the decision was quashed after a High Court challenge by victims and The Sun.
The outcry also sparked a fresh Met Police probe and Worboys was charged in 2019 with further crimes.
Worboys – who now goes by the name John Radford – was handed two life sentences in December that year after admitting four more attacks.
WORBOYS' APPEAL
Worboys is now appealing those life sentences.
Police believe he may have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008.
He targeted passengers who got into his cab, claiming he had won money on the lottery or gambling on horses, arming himself with a "rape kit".
The chilling kit hidden in the footwell of his cab included condoms, plastic gloves and a sex toy.
In 2019, a court heard Worboys attacked one victim in his cab after she left a bar on Dover Street in central London.
He claimed he had won money on the horses and told her he was a Chippendale stripper as he offered her champagne spiked with a "stupefying or overpowering drug".
MONSTER'S 'RAPE KIT'
She woke up the next day "naked, with her clothes left in a trail on the way to her bed".
The woman recognised Worboys seeing publicity about his case in 2009 and in December 2018 picked him out in an identity parade.
He attacked another – a university student – in London in 2003 as she left a nightclub on New Oxford Street using laced champagne.
The monster was first jailed in 2009 after giving his victims drug-laced champagne before attacking them in the back of his black cab.
In 2009, he was convicted of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women, and jailed indefinitely with a minimum term of eight years.
In 2019, he pleaded guilty to two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.
He also admitted two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence under the Sexual Offences Act.
In 2019, he was jailed for life with a minimum of six years at the Old Bailey after admitting four more sex attacks.
He was handed two six-year jail terms to run alongside his two life terms – meaning he could now die behind bars if the Parole Board decide to never release him.
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