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| Black cab rapist John Worboys has been handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years for attacking four more women. | |
| The 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London. | The 62-year-old, who is now known as John Radford, was jailed in 2009 for assaults on 12 women in London. |
| The four victims came forward after the public outcry caused by the parole board ruling he was safe to be freed. | |
| Sentencing Worboys, Mrs Justice McGowan said she did not know when "if ever you will cease to be a risk". | |
| In 2009, Worboys was locked up indefinitely for the public protection with a minimum of eight years after being found guilty of 19 sex offences against 12 women between 2006 and 2008. | |
| Last year, the Parole Board overturned a decision to release him and ruled that he should remain in prison, citing his "sense of sexual entitlement". | |
| Prosecutor Duncan Penny QC told the Old Bailey that psychiatrist Philip Joseph found Worboys had been "fantasising" about attacking women since 1986. | |
| A probation report in August this year found "he is potentially just as dangerous now as the point of the first sentence". | |
| After the four women came forward, Worboys, of Enfield, admitted two charges of administering a drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault. | |
| He also plead guilty to two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence. | |
| Mr Penny said the first victim was targeted in 2000 or early 2001 after a night out at a wine bar in Dover Street in Soho. | |
| The second victim, a university student living in north London, was picked up after a night out with friends at a club on New Oxford Street in 2003. | |
| Worboys' third victim was picked up after a night out on King's Road in 2007 where he told her he had won £40,000 at a casino and offered her champagne. | |
| The court heard Worboys told the fourth victim he had won the lottery and offered her and her friend miniature bottles of champagne. | |
| Mr Penny said: "She woke up in bed the following morning. The bedclothes had not moved and her hands were crossed over her chest, which was unusual. | |
| "She was sufficiently unnerved to check herself. There were no visible signs she had been touched." |