Carrie Johnson warns black cab rapist John Worboys may have ‘1,000, if not more’ victims

Carrie Johnson said black cab rapist John Worboys may have had “if not more than 1,000” victims.

The wife of former prime minister Boris Johnson, who helped bring a serial sex attacker to justice, said she was contacted by more women who believed they had been assaulted by him.

he said Good morning England: “The truth is that his crimes, as far as we know, date from 2000 to 2009, when he was convicted.

“And during that time he was a taxi driver, potentially out every night in his taxi, so there could have been up to 1,000 people, it could have been more.”

The Parole Board said last week that Worboys “remains at high risk of committing further serious sexual offenses against women”.

He is serving a life sentence by luring women into his taxi late at night, pretending to have won money, and offering them celebratory drinks laced with drugs.

Ms Johnson, one of several women who spoke to keep Worboys behind bars, said the news he had been denied parole was a “huge relief” to many of the survivors.

he said Good morning England He said more people said they believed they were in a taxi after watching the ITV dramatization of the case.

This, he added, “could really help keep him behind bars for good.”

Ms Johnson said: “I think there will be women like me who have been drugged, who don’t realize they’ve been drugged, who just think: God, maybe that last drink didn’t sit well with me or, or maybe they’ve seen what happened now and thought: ‘Oh, it’s over.’

“I encourage them to come forward if they can.”

Worboys was first jailed in London in 2009 for 19 sexual offenses linked to attacks on 12 victims between October 2006 and February 2008, and was sentenced to indefinite imprisonment for a minimum of eight years for public protection.

In December 2017, a Parole Board panel ruled he was ready to be released, prompting a legal challenge from two of his victims to successfully overturn the decision.

Amid outrage over the shooting, rules were changed to allow some parole hearings to be held in public and to allow better scrutiny of the processes used.

“I was a 19-year-old university student when I got into John Worboys’ (the man now known as the black taxi rapist) taxi,” Ms Johnson wrote in the Daily Mail.

“Almost 20 years later, although much has changed, I fear the way the police deal with crimes such as sexual assault and rape is no better than it was then.”

Reflecting on her own experience, Ms Johnson described the night the taxi driver spiked her drink after claiming to have won big money at the casino.

While she managed to spill a glass of champagne on the floor, the man later returned with a bottle of vodka and realized it had also been adulterated.

He said he “never got into my bed” after returning home.

“Instead, I passed out in the bathroom, lying fully clothed in the empty tub,” he said.

Years later the allegations against Worboys emerged and a trusted friend of Ms Johnson contacted her about the case.

Ms Johnson said she was able to identify him during the search and gave police the mobile phone number he had given her.

Publicity of the case led to more victims coming forward and Worboys was charged with further offenses between 2000 and 2008, which he admitted.

In 2019, he was given two life sentences with a minimum of six years.

The Worboys will be considered for parole again in about two years.