Courageous Carrie Johnson Opens Up About Night She Was Drugged by Black Cab Rapist at 19, as His Parole is Denied Again

CARRIE Johnson has revealed what happened the night Black cab rapist John Worboys drugged her aged 19.

The Parole Board this week again refused to release Worboys, saying he “ of committing further serious sexual offences against women”.

Carrie Johnson revealed what happened the night she was drugged by the serial rapist Credit: PA Black cab rapist John Worboys will remain in prison Credit: PA

Writing in the Daily Mail , Mrs Johnson, who , said her decision to become involved in an dramatisation of the case was driven by a desire to give victims a voice.

“What I worry hasn’t changed is the culture that meant Worboys was not caught nearly as soon as he should have been,” she said.

“It takes enormous courage for women to come forward. They must know that when they do, they will be treated seriously and that every effort will be made to ensure justice is done.”

Worboys is serving a life sentence after luring women into his taxi late at night, pretending he had won and offering them celebratory drinks laced with .

The wife of former prime minister , one of several women who spoke out to keep Worboys behind bars, said he had been refused parole came as a “huge relief” to many survivors.

The parole decision was made behind closed doors despite the Parole Board previously ruling that a hearing would take place in public.

But because Worboys then indicated he would not be requesting to be freed, a hearing was no longer required and the case was determined by considering paper evidence instead, it is understood.

The 68-year-old “accepts that he does not currently meet the test for release” and claims to feel “enormous regret, remorse and shame”, according to parole papers.

A court sketch of Worboys at the Old Bailey Credit: PA:Press Association Carrie with husband and former Prime Minister Boris Johnson Credit: Getty

Worboys was first jailed in 2009 for 19 sexual offences linked to attacks on 12 victims between October 2006 and February 2008 in London, and given an indefinite sentence for public protection with a minimum term of eight years.

In December 2017, a Parole Board panel decided he was ready for release, by two of his victims that successfully got the decision overturned.

Amid outrage over the battle, rules were then changed to allow some parole hearings to be held in public and permit better scrutiny of the processes used.

While Mrs Johnson welcomed changes to the parole system, she said victims were still being failed when reporting sexual assault to police.

“I was a 19-year-old university student when I got into the taxi of John Worboys – the man now known as the black cab rapist,” she wrote.

“Nearly 20 years on, while much has changed, I fear the way the police deal with crimes such as sexual assault and rape is no better than it was then.”

Reflecting on her own experience, Mrs Johnson recounted the night the cab driver spiked her drink after claiming he had won big at a casino.

While she managed to pour one glass of champagne onto the floor, he later returned with a bottle of vodka, which she would discover had been spiked.

Bottles and items seized from Worboys Credit: PA:Press Association Worboys was found guilty of 19 charges of drugging and sexually assaulting 12 women passengers Credit: Rex Features

After making it home, she said she “never made it into my bed”.

“Instead, I passed out in the bathroom, lying in the empty bathtub, fully clothed,” she said.

Years later, allegations against Worboys emerged and a friend Mrs Johnson had confided in contacted her about the case.

Mrs Johnson said she was able to identify him in a line-up and provided the police with a mobile phone number he had given her.

The publicity around the case led further victims to come forward, and Worboys was charged with more crimes between 2000 and 2008, which he admitted.

In 2019, he was handed two life sentences with a minimum term of six years.

Worboys will be considered for parole again in around two years’ time.