Black cab rapist John Worboys is facing life in jail after admitting to four more attacks on women.
The 62-year-old, who now goes by the name John Derek Radford, targeted women who hailed his cab and drugged them in order to sexually assault them.
In 2009, he was jailed indefinitely for the public protection with a minimum of eight years for sex attacks on 12 women. At an Old Bailey hearing in London yesterday, he pled guilty to further offences against four more victims who came forward last year.
The defendant, originally from Enfield, north London, appeared via video-link from Wakefield Prison, wearing spectacles and a light grey and green shirt.
He pleaded guilty to two counts of administering a stupefying or overpowering drug with intent to commit rape or indecent assault.
He admitted two further charges of administering a substance with intent to commit a sexual offence under the Sexual Offences Act.
Adjourning the case to September 2, Mrs Justice McGowan said the maximum sentence Worboys faces is life in prison.
The senior judge may also set a high minimum term before any possible release, reflecting his prolific offending.
Ordering a report on Worboys’ history of crime and dangerousness, she said: “This is a case on which the public interest is better represented by the Probation Service putting forward a complete history.”
She also ordered that the defendant to be brought to court for the next hearing, saying: “This is a case where the public might expect the defendant to be sitting in the dock.”
At his first trial at Croydon Crown Court in 2009, jurors were told that Worboys picked up his victims in London’s West End.
He plied them with champagne laced with sedatives on the pretext of celebrating a lottery or casino win.
Worboys was convicted of 19 offences including one count of rape, five sexual assaults, one attempted assault and 12 drugging charges.
Last year, the Parole Board ruled that he should remain in prison, citing his “sense of sexual entitlement” and a need to control women.
At an earlier hearing in the latest case, prosecutor Jonathan Polnay described similar attacks on four more women.
The first victim got into Worboys’ black cab after leaving a bar in Dover Street.
He said: “He told her he had won money on the horses and was celebrating and claimed he had been a stripper with the Chippendales.
“He offered champagne and invited her to celebrate.
She agreed. “This defendant pulled over on a side road off the A40 served an alcoholic drink in a plastic cup, which she drank.
“That is her last memory that evening. “She woke up the next day, naked, with her clothes left in a trail on the way to her bed.”
The victim recognised Worboys after seeing publicity about his case in 2009 and in December 2018 picked him out in an identity parade.
Mr Polnay said the second victim was a university student in London in 2003.
The woman was targeted after leaving a nightclub on New Oxford Street in what was “an identical method not only to the first count but a number of previous conviction and allegations three and four”.
All the women made their allegations to police in early 2018, but the offences dated back to between 2000 and 2008 in London
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