JOHN WORBOYS TO BE RELEASED

The  horrific and mystifying news that the taxi driver who inflicted upon well over a hundred women: drugged, assaulted and raped will be released has been met with righteous  condemnation, questions and demands  by Yvette Cooper MP and others that the Parole Board's report be released.

There have been solicitors appearing on TV defending the release stating that Worboys has served his sentence for the crimes he was convicted for and was eligible for release 2 years ago.
His conviction was for:
One count of rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges.

There were many other victims plus there are the victims who did not come forward. There are many legitimate reasons why victims do not go to the police:
they do want to relive the Hell by going through the court case which could last more than a year from when they give a statement to the police.
That they have had prior experience of the police either ignoring them or feigning concern and then doing nothing more. Again this is a traumatic experience that those who have not been through it  are unlikely to comprehend.
They do not want it to become publically known that they suffered this or to upset their family if they have good relations with their family.

The Parole Board and any review of the sentencing appear not to have taken this into consideration:
 the conviction for rape should have carried a far longer sentence.  Also the drugging of women makes it clear that he intended many more rapes. The intent was NOT  taken into account in the sentencing as the sentencing would have been a life sentence; not necessarily a full life tariff as those are challenged in the Court of Appeal.

It is reported that in addition to the 12 drugging charges there are many more victims between 100-200. This comes from reliable lawyers who worked on the conviction of Worboys and have seen the documents which have not been made public.

Another factor for why Worboys should remain for many more years,+30 years in prison or the rest of  his life:
Victims of rape or violence can be scarred for years or life, while he will get freedom, they will still suffer what he did. The solicitor Harriet Wistrich  rightly stated that victims were still living  with what happened to them. 10 or more years on.

A friend of mine who was sexually abused as a child, fought for years the psychological trauma which periodically engulfed her in the worst depression. Despite close & loving relationship with  close friends,her brother and boyfriend and being very excited to be working with me on a stage play about Poland, she was Polish,she was plunged into yet another darkness which brought her to suicide. A close relative who should have cared turned out to be somewhat indifferent to what had happened to her and that  exacerbated the  pain of what a man had done to her years beforehand.

It was only in the last few years that the abuse of some of my relatives by their father became known  to me and a couple of other relatives. Some of those children, now adults +40 years are still psychologically traumatised,. One cousin was in the process of drinking herself to death because of the trauma. Their mother knew and did nothing.
We only found out when the police  asked a couple of questions about  underage sex far more recently.  The police did nothing. The MET police of South London ignored it.

When I was informed  I solicited murder- twice. He shortly after died of cancer  but did not suffer  in way approaching to what he had done to his children.  I only withhold his name for the privacy of his children.

Rape and violent assaults are not crimes that  exist only in the moment. For the victims it  means years and often a lifetime of psychological suffering.
This is what Worboys has done to these women. He should  remain in gaol.

STATEMENTS BY CPS:
19 more cases were not prosecuted as CPS said:
"It was not in the public interest."

A victim was told he would never be released since:
"He would remain a danger to women"

That the police did not pursue 102 more allegations has been evaded by the CPS