John Worboys

John Derek Radford (born John Worboys, June 1957) is a British convicted serial sex offender, known as the Black Cab Rapist.

From 1987 to 2000, Worboys worked as a stripper, using "Terry the Minder" as a pseudonym.

As "Paul" and "Tony", Worboys directed and appeared in a pornographic film.

He hired out his flat in Poole, Dorset, for making pornographic films.

He lived alone in Rotherhithe, South London, before marrying Kate Santos in 1991; the couple separated after four years.

Santos stated that he sexually assaulted her daughter and that he confessed to following home and assaulting another woman.

In 1996, Worboys passed The Knowledge, an exam that allowed him to operate as a taxi driver within London.

As well as working within London, Worboys worked as a taxi driver in Bournemouth while living at his holiday flat in Poole.

He still continued to work as a stripper at night.

Worboys was a London black cab taxi driver who picked up women as fares late at night in central London.

He would tell each woman he was celebrating coming into a large amount of money, usually by winning the lottery or at a casino, show her a carrier bag full of money to back up his story, and then suggest she drink a glass of champagne with him, which he had drugged with sedatives.

After the drugs had taken effect, he would rape or sexually assault her.

The women often had little memory of what happened to them.

The first reports to police concerning suspicious incidents experienced by women in black cabs dated from 2002.

Over a period of six years, 14 women between 18 and 34 years of age went to the police to tell of the assault or other worrying experiences in a taxi, all of which had similarities.

The police failed to link them:

A 25-year-old woman met Worboys after attempting to return home after a night out in Fulham.

After having a drink, she awoke to find Worboys assaulting her, attempting to put his hand inside her underwear.

She had a limited memory of the incident, but reported the incident to the police.

A journalist got into Worboys taxi on Regent Street.

At some point, she had a drink with him, before falling unconscious.

Hours later, the journalist woke up with no memory.

A 22-year-old woman had attended a birthday party in Oxford Street and was attempting to travel to Middlesex.

Worboys offered her a lift for £30.

Refusing to take a drink that he had offered her, he became aggressive.

During the early hours of the morning, Worboys picked up a young officer worker in Regent Street, offering to take her to her home address in Tufnell Park.

The woman drank champagne and remembers Worboys forcibly kissing her, but nothing more.

However, the following day, she noticed bruises on her legs.

The victim was drugged, but remembers nothing more.

Carrie Symonds (who later withdrew her right to anonymity), was a first year student at Warwick University.

After a night out in Fulham, she had been waiting at a bus stop on King's Road, when Worboys pulled up at the stop.

With Symonds only having £5, Worboys accepted this as payment, due to Symonds living in the same direction as him.

Offered alcohol, Symonds sensed danger, instead pouring the Champagne on the floor of the taxi.

Worboys propositioned Symonds to perform a sex act on him for £350, which she refused, before he joined her in the back of the taxi.

It was here where Worboys offered £50 for her to drink a glass of vodka.

He was in a relationship at the time of his arrest in 2008.

Worboys was convicted in 2009 for attacks on 12 women, committed between 2007 and 2008.

In 2019, he was convicted for attacks on four more women, the earliest of which took place in 2000.

Police say he may have had more than 100 victims.

Born in Enfield, Middlesex, Worboys left school with few qualifications and was employed in jobs including milkman, junior dairy manager and security guard.