Black cab rapist John Worboys kept sick diary detailing his excuses for sex attacks on women
Black cab rapist John Worboys kept sick diary detailing his excuses for sex attacks on women, new documentary reveals
- John Worboys, 63, kept a diary detailing excuses after he was stopped by police
- Black Cab Rapist thught to have preyed on more than 100 women over five years
- Extracts feature in new Channel 5 show Predator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist
Black cab rapist John Worboys kept a sick diary detailing excuses for his sex attacks in case he was stopped by police, a new documentary reveals.
Worboys, 63, wrote almost 200 pages of notes defending his horrific spree as Britain’s most prolific serial rapist.
His ‘Machiavellian script’ was written in question and answer form as a rehearsal for a police interrogation.
Extracts of his diary are heard for the first time on new Channel 5 documentary ‘Predator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist’, which airs on Wednesday night.
Black cab rapist John Worboys kept a sick diary detailing excuses for his sex attacks in case he was stopped by police again
The programme charts the investigation into Worboys, who is believed to have preyed on more than 100 women in London over at least five years.
The former stripper was jailed in 2009 for 19 sex attacks on 12 women.
Police had the chance to catch Worboys after his 79th victim, a 19-year-old student, reported his attack in July 2007.
But blundering officers at Plumstead police station let him off without asking several obvious key questions, leaving him free to attack dozens more women after handing them spiked drinks.
From then on, Worboys compiled notes in case he was ever questioned by police again.
He said of his attack on the student: ‘Police must have faith in me to let me carry on working.
‘She kept flashing and rubbing her t*ts. She wanted to sh** and f*** me.
‘Most men would have got hold of her and done worse things or just chucked her on the ground.
‘How could I be responsible for her actions?…If I sexually assaulted her my DNA would be down below.’
Elsewhere, he wrote: ‘I don’t find drunk women attractive. Only like girls 40+…I find it pervy, young girls and older men…All I want to do is get women home safely…It’s because I’m too nice and caring.’
Professor Aisha K. Gill, an expert criminologist at the University of Roehampton, analysed the disturbing diary.
Extracts from the new Channel 5 documentary feature his sick reasonings he wrote in case he was stopped in his black cab (pictured) again
She told the programme: ‘He is incredibly repetitive and he has got it into his own head what consent means to him.
‘When she gets into the cab, for him that’s a green light. That’s consent.
‘He has a very disturbing Machiavellian script that’s very well rehearsed. He’s covered all angles to lure, to violate and to abuse.’
She highlighted how Worboys repeatedly tried to justify his actions by saying he did not find drunk women attractive.
She said: ‘What he tries to do is an attempt at self-repair. He wants to reassure everyone that will listen and hear what’s going on in his own head, his own inner monologue that he is a decent man. He could not possibly be a serial rapist.
‘What we get is actually a Jekyll and Hyde figure. He is presenting a front stage of a good guy, nice, easy-going but backstage a very violent man.’
In 2013 two victims successfully sued the Met for failing to investigate their attacks properly.
Worboys is feared to have plied more than 100 women with Champagne or wine laced with sedatives from a ‘rape kit’ kept in his cab – which included sleeping tablets, plastic gloves and condoms
In his diary, Worboys wrote: ‘Police must have faith in me to let me carry on working…Obviously think I’m a danger. Why did you let me carry on cabbing until today?’
Reading his notes for the first time, one of his victims told the programme: ‘It’s incredibly alarming. He has prepared statements and comments about the police and he has said ‘they can’t think that I am that dangerous or guilty because they would have arrested me, especially being a cab driver’.
‘It’s clear from reading this diary that Worboy’s experience with officers from Plumstead police station made him feel invincible.’
Chatty Worboys would pick up young women and insist they have a drink to help him celebrate a big money win.
But the alcohol would be spiked with over-the-counter medicines, rendering them stupefied with next to no recollection of the attack.
In a statement to Channel 5, the Metropolitan Police said: ‘The Metropolitan Police Service has previously apologised for mistakes made in the investigation of rapes committed by Worboys.’
Last month Worboys launched an appeal against his two life sentences for drugging and attacking lone women in the back of his taxi.
He later lost a Court of Appeal challenge against his life sentence for spiking the drinks of four women.
The 63-year-old predator, who now goes by the name John Radford, was jailed for life with a minimum term of six years at the Old Bailey in December 2019 after he admitted the offence.
He was already behind bars at the time, having been locked up indefinitely for public protection with a minimum term of eight years in 2009, after he was found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008.
