John Worboys Denied Parole for 2nd Time, Kept in Prison at 68 Over Risk to Women

9 articles · Updated · BBC.com · May 14

Parole Board papers published Thursday kept 68-year-old John Worboys in prison and also refused to move him to open conditions.
The panel said the former black-cab driver, now known as John Radford, still posed a high risk of committing further serious sexual offences against women and did not meet the test for release.
Worboys was first convicted in 2009 of 19 sexual offences against 12 women and later received a life sentence in 2019 after more victims came forward about crimes he admitted between 2000 and 2008.
A 2019 prison psychologist's report said he accepted preying on 90 individuals, suggesting the scale of offending was far wider than the convictions.
The decision came by paper review behind closed doors after a planned public hearing fell away; victim Carrie Johnson said women and girls across Britain were safer with him still behind bars.

How effective are current parole risk assessments in truly protecting the public from high-risk offenders like John Worboys?

What systemic failures allowed Worboys to offend for so long, and have new reforms genuinely addressed these gaps?