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| Author: | edders23 [ Tue Mar 13, 2018 11:47 am ] |
| Post subject: | Warboys victims challenge release |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43383113 Two victims of the rapist John Worboys are due to begin a High Court challenge against the decision to release him from prison. The Parole Board approved his release with "stringent" licence conditions but that decision was widely criticised. Victims say they were not informed of the decision before it was made public and that women's safety is at risk. Worboys, 60, was jailed indefinitely in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London. He is believed to have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in the capital between 2002 and 2008. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has also launched a judicial review against the action to free the former black-cab driver. In January, the government said it would not challenge the Parole Board's decision, saying it was not "appropriate" for the government to seek a judicial review. During the High Court challenge, three judges will hear evidence over two days from the victims and Mr Khan. Worboys is expected to appear at the hearing via video link. At a hearing in February, Sir Brian Leveson and Mr Justice Garnham granted the appeal to challenge the decision. Sir Brian said Worboys should be granted "emergency legal aid" and ordered the temporary bar on his release to continue. Lawyer Phillippa Kaufmann, representing the two victims, said it appeared something had gone "very wrong" and the victims were "concerned not only for themselves but for the wider public and women in particular". |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Tue Mar 13, 2018 8:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Warboys victims challenge release |
update The Parole Board failed to consider "critical evidence" against rapist John Worboys before approving his prison release, a lawyer for two of his victims has told the High Court. The lawyer said the evidence related to "wider allegations" of sexual attacks. Police believe that Worboys - jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London - had more than 100 victims. Lawyer Phillippa Kaufmann QC said the board was wrong to decide Worboys took "full responsibility" for his crimes. 'Exceptional step' Worboys is thought to have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in the capital between 2002 and 2008. The 60-year-old, who has changed his name to John Radford, is watching the trial via video link from prison. The court heard he denies any allegation other than the offences he was convicted of. Legal papers submitted to the High Court show that as recently as September last year, the prison authorities believed he posed such a risk that he needed to remain in a Category A prison. Three months later the Parole Board decided that he should be let out with stringent licence conditions, without having been assessed at a less secure prison. Ms Kaufmann said this "highly exceptional step" was "in the face of opposition" from senior prison managers, prison psychologists, the probation service and the justice secretary. Ms Kaufmann said the claims of Worboys' further crimes "completely undermined" the board's decision. She told the court: "It is obvious, absolutely obvious, that this evidence of wider offending had a central bearing on all of those conclusions that formed the basis of the Parole Board's conclusion that there had been a reduction in risk." Ms Kaufmann added it would have been fair to consider these allegations as the board did not have to determine whether he had actually committed the crimes. She said it would be "extraordinary" to release Worboys straight from a Category A prison, the highest security prison, into the community. |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 2:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Warboys victims challenge release |
Result then and head of parole board quits as well Rot in jail worboys it's where you belong !!!! |
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| Author: | Sussex [ Wed Mar 28, 2018 7:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Warboys victims challenge release |
In all fairness it’s the law that stinks, and from what I read the fella in charge of the Parole Board wanted change as well. Parole Board decisions and reasons shouldn’t be secret, and hopefully in future they won’t be. As for Worboys, sooner he is dead the better. |
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