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Worboys to remain behind bars
Campaigners outside the Supreme Court last month following the decision that the Metropolitan Police can be held liable for serious failures in their investigations after a landmark Supreme Court ruling linked to the case of black cab rapist John Worboys

BLACK-CAB rapist John Worboys will remain behind bars after the High Court upheld a challenge to his release today.

Two of his victims successfully launched a judicial review of the Parole Board’s controversial decision to release Mr Worboys earlier this year.

Mr Worboys was jailed indefinitely in 2009, with a minimum term of eight years, for drugging and sexually assaulting female passengers.

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