CABBIE rapist John Worboys is facing a fresh probe over an alleged seaside sex attack just years after committing crimes against more than 100 women.
A new investigation has been launched by detectives over an alleged attack in Blackpool, Lancashire, from when Worboys worked as male stripper over 25 years ago.
PACabbie rapist, John Worboys, is facing a fresh probe over an alleged seaside sex attack in the 1990s[/caption]
Worboys is currently serving two life sentences and was put behind bars in 2009Rex Features
SWNS:South West News ServiceThe fresh allegations relate to when Worboys worked as a male stripper around three decades ago[/caption]
Worboys was put behind bars in 2009 after assaulting 12 women in London and is currently serving two life sentences.
Now, Worboys is the subject of a new sex attack probe that the victim alleges took place in the seaside town during the 1990s, say The Mirror.
Cops believe that he attacked more than 100 women in London before he was eventually caught.
This investigation marks the first time the serial rapist has been investigated outside the capital.
A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said: “We received a report of rape which was reported to have happened in the late 1990s in Blackpool.
“An investigation was launched, and our enquiries are ongoing. No one has been arrested at this stage.”
The Mirror reported that specialist officers visited former friend and stripper, Dave Hanson, to reveal any potential clues.
Hanson said that officers visited him at his home in Lancashire over 300 miles about the alleged Blackpool attack.
He was quizzed by detectives over the new allegations which he says the police are taking “extremely seriously”.
“My message to anybody who was attacked by him or knows anything about him, please contact the police,” he said.
He added that Worboys was a “pure monster” and that he was “shocked” over the new claims.
Dubbed the “black cab rapist”, Worboys would attack victims in his hackney carriage in London.
He would trick women into thinking he was celebrating winning the horses or the lottery in an excuse to offer them alcohol which was laced with drugs.
The drugs left the women defenceless as he attacked them in the back of the vehicle.
In 2009, he was convicted of 19 offences and ordered to serve at least eight years in jail for 19 sex attacks on 12 women.
He has destroyed so many lives and I still believe he is capable of doing more harm
Victim DSD after Worboys was handed two additional life sentences in December 2019
After Worboys was charged and a high-profile trial, more women came forward with new allegations dating back further than the police originally thought.
He was cleared for release by the Parole Board after 10 years without his victims being informed, with officials failing to take into account evidence he had attacked 105 women.
The High Court overturned this release decision in March 2018 after two victims challenged it.
Worboys was handed two additional life sentences in December 2019 as new victims came forward, with a judge finding he posed an ongoing danger to women.
Known only as DSD, one victim slammed his six-year minimum term, saying at the time: “He has destroyed so many lives and I still believe he is capable of doing more harm.
“I fear for other women if he is ever released.”
Sentencing him in 2019, Justice McGowan said: “I find you are currently dangerous. I do not know when, if ever, you will cease to be a risk.”
A 2019 report said Worboys was “potentially just as dangerous now as at the point of the first sentence.”
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