Carrie Johnson, the wife of former prime minister Boris Johnson, has said there could be "up to 1,000, if not more" victims of black-cab rapist John Worboys. She helped bring the serial sex attacker to justice after encountering him in 2007.
Johnson said the news that Worboys had been refused parole last week came as a "huge relief" to many survivors. The Parole Board stated that he "continues to represent a high risk of committing further serious sexual offences against women".
Johnson, who was a 19-year-old university student when she met Worboys, recalled how he offered her a celebratory glass of champagne in his taxi after claiming to have won money at a casino. She poured it onto the floor and escaped without being drugged.
She urged more victims to come forward, especially after an ITV dramatisation of the case prompted additional women to contact her. "I think there'll be women who, like me, were drugged, who might not realise they were drugged," she said.
Worboys was first convicted in 2009 of 19 sexual offences against 12 women and given an indefinite sentence. In 2019 he received a life sentence after more victims came forward about crimes between 2000 and 2008.
