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John Worboys’ victims weren’t only failed by the Parole Board | Sonia Sodha

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Nick Hardwick carried the can for the decision to release Worboys, but David Gauke also has difficult questions to answer

“Frozen in shock, disgusted and traumatised by the thought that Worboys could be on the streets so soon.” That’s how one of John Worboys’ victims described her feelings since she learned in January that the man known as the “black-cab rapist” would be released from prison. Her shock has been widely shared. How could Worboys – jailed indefinitely back in 2009 for drugging, raping and sexually assaulting several women in his taxi – be released just nine years later? That decision by the Parole Board was today overturned by the high court.

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