Decide Worboys’ fate in the open
IT IS sickening to see black-cab rapist John Worboys has yet again managed to avoid facing victims in an open parole hearing.
Sex beast has run rings round officials in the past.
It is wrong that John Worboys has yet again managed to avoid facing victims in an open parole hearingCredit: Rex Features
In 2018 there was public uproar after a brainless parole board panel — swayed by his lies and pleas of remorse — secretly agreed to release him from prison just eight years after he was convicted for attacks on 12 women.
A lengthy campaign by this newspaper led to a landmark legal victory for victims when the overturned the ludicrous behind-closed-doors decision.
Judges said that the panel’s secret ruling breached the principles of open justice and that, incredibly, it had failed to consider whether he was being honest.
Since then successive justice ministers have pledged more transparency in parole board decision-making.
It led to victims being able to see and question their processes.
How depressing then to learn that , scheduled to take place in June.
Instead the board have agreed that it will be concluded by an internal review, with the decision published on the parole board website.
It is outrageous that they have backed the request from a fiend who police believe may have destroyed the lives of as many as 100 women.
The board must reverse their decision and force this monster to make any new bid for release in front of the public and those he so mercilessly assaulted.
Scrapheap challenge
THE apprenticeship scheme has not been fit for purpose for years.
With a million young Brits on the scrapheap, why should anyone already in work have access to this fund?
Yet middle managers in well-paid are allowed to dip in and further their careers by diversifying into other types of work.
What madness.
Every penny should be used for training young people on the bottom of the heap so they can have a worthwhile career.
Welfare Secretary rightly believes this is a moral mission.
He is overhauling the scheme and . We wish him luck.
But wouldn’t it be better if the Government scrapped its own destructive National Insurance and minimum wage hikes, which are hanging over many firms like the millstone from hell?
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