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Black-cab rapist John Worboys denied parole for second time
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- Carrie Johnson, who encountered Worboys when she was a student, spoke of her relief at the decision and said "women and girls across Britain are safer as a result".
- The parole board refused to release the 68-year-old as he "continues to represent a high risk of committing further serious sexual offences upon women".
- Worboys, now known as John Radford, "accepts that he does not currently meet the test for release", according to a decision published on Thursday.
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Alicia Curry Met Police John Worboys was imprisoned for a string of offences committed between 2006 and 2008Rapist black-cab driver John Worboys will stay in prison after a parole board ruled that he remained a threat to women.
He is currently serving a life sentence for a string of sexual offences he committed by luring women into his taxi late at night, pretending to have won money and offering them an apparently celebratory drink that he had laced with drugs.
Carrie Johnson, who encountered Worboys when she was a student, spoke of her relief at the decision and said "women and girls across Britain are safer as a result".
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