Furious MPs praise The Sun for launching legal bid to keep rapist John Worboys in prison
The MPs said that The Sun's action should shame the Government and should have not needed to happen
Furious MPs yesterday praised The Sun for launching a legal bid to keep vile rapist John Worboys behind bars – saying our action should shame the Government.
Tory backbencher Zac Goldsmith said he hoped The Sun’s action would put right the “cataclysmic errors” in the country’s criminal justice system.
He said: “It should never have been necessary for The Sun to take legal action to right this appalling injustice.
“But a succession of cataclysmic errors in our criminal justice system combined with Government weakness has meant that it is, and I applaud this action by the Sun.”
It came as damning letters emerged last night revealing the Crown Prosecution Service had told victims Worboys would spend his LIFE in jail after being given an indeterminate sentence.
The black cab rapist is instead being released after serving less than a decade.
After his trial in 2009, Antony Connell, a special casework lawyer for the CPS, wrote to victims to explain the sentencing process.
And he said: “An indeterminate sentence is a new sentence that has been introduced only a few years ago. To all intents and purposes, it is a sentence of life imprisonment.”
Critically, he said in the letter: “Merely because he is allowed to apply after eight years, does not mean that he will be granted parole.”
The Sun yesterday launched a landmark legal bid to force the Parole Board to reveal why it ordered the release of the black cap rapist.
We have joined forces with the Daily Mail in writing to the Parole Board and the Justice Secretary warning them the secretive system protecting a man linked to up to 200 sex attacks must end.
The letter gives officials seven days to say if they will publish the confidential report which led to the
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November decision by the Parole Board to agree to release him later this month.
Tory MP and former Minister Anna Soubry last night said: “Well done to The Sun.
“Many people have well founded concerns that Worboys remains a danger to women. Knowing on what basis the Parole Board believe it is safe to release him will hopefully allay those fears.”