Victim tells how rapist John Worboys ‘drugged and attacked her’ in his black cab — ‘then let himself into her home’
A VICTIM of rapist John Worboys has revealed how he attacked her in his black cab then let himself into her home.
Ann Cerins believes the fiend came into a pub, spiked her drink and waited outside in the taxi rank.
She has a blank from leaving the boozer to the next day — and only found out she had been raped after police discovered her details in his notebook.
The attack is the only time Worboys is known to have got into a victim’s home.
He rifled through her bag for keys. But he fled when Ann’s teen daughter found him stroking her mum’s hair on a bed.
Office worker Ann, whose identity we have changed for her protection, last night slammed the decision to release Worboys.
She said: “It makes me sick. He could be out after eight years and live his life. Yet me and other women are in prison forever, mentally, living with what he’s done.”
She had gone for a drink with colleagues in Farringdon, Central London, in February 2008.
Worboys had already drugged and assaulted dozens of victims across the capital and was lying in wait at a cab rank.
Ann, 48, recalls having a couple of ciders but can’t remember anything after her third drink.
She has since been told he raped her in the back of his cab in Stoke Newington before taking her home.
Ann’s 18-year-old daughter — who had a baby — heard her mother come in.
She thought it was odd her Mum went straight upstairs without asking about her grandchild.
And she became alarmed when she heard a male voice and “grumbling noises” through a baby monitor.
Ann’s daughter, who we are not naming, said: “The room was dark but I could see my mum in the foetal position and a man stroking her hair.”
She confronted Worboys, who explained he was a taxi driver and her mum owed him money.
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Ann’s daughter said: “I screamed that it didn’t explain why he was on the bed stroking my mum’s hair.
“I demanded his name, badge number and registration. I told him that if she owed money I would get it to him and told him to get out.
“He gave me a false name, Chris, and hid his lanyard with his details on. He sped off before I could get the cab’s reg.”
Next day Ann’s daughter was angry that her mum had brought a stranger into the house.
But when Ann said she couldn’t remember a thing, her daughter realised her drink had been spiked.
Her daughter called police but her complaint wasn’t followed up.
The pair later saw a news report about a cabbie carrying out attacks in London — so Ann spoke to the Met’s Sapphire Unit.
Worboys, now 60, had been arrested on February 18 — days after attacking her.
Months later Ann got a call from a detective chief inspector.
She explained: “I knew something had happened that night because of the physical pain. But I’d blocked it out and convinced myself my daughter had thwarted the attack.
“When the DCI rang I presumed it was to follow up my contact. But it was unconnected.
“He said they’d found my name and address in the notebook of someone arrested for a series of rapes. They found it in a sweep of Worboys’ house.
“He said they also found DNA in his cab. I thought, ‘Christ’. I’d told people something had happened but no one believed me – and I thought ‘Well this is the proof.’ I was numb.”
Ann was on the way to give a witness statement when she had the only flashback she has ever had of the attack.
She said: “I always sit in the front but I got in the back of the police car behind the driver.
“I had a flashback to being slumped on my side in a car. That is how it must have happened.” Worboys denied 23 charges at Croydon crown court.
In March 2009 he was convicted of one rape — not the one on Ann — five sex assaults, one assault bid and 12 drugging charges.
The thought of him being out is terrorising me and others
Ann Cerins
Ann was assured Worboys would get a lengthy jail term.
She was then referred to Tony Maden, a professor of forensic psychiatry at Imperial College.
He told her he’d spoken to Worboys in jail, and that she had been raped in the back of the fiend’s cab in Stoke Newington.
In a 2011 report Prof Maden said he had “no reason to doubt the credibility” of Ann or her daughter, whose statement he had also read.
The report, shown to us by Ann, said: “The claimant was drugged and raped by the cab driver John Worboys.”
Solicitors Slater and Gordon won Ann a £10,000 payout from Worboys.
The Sun revealed this month how the Parole Board agreed to his release.
Last week he was secretly switched from Wakefield jail to HMP Belmarsh, South London.
On Friday his release was put on hold until a hearing next month after two victims won a temporary court order.
Ann added: “With him coming to Belmarsh he is getting nearer. The thought of him being out is terrorising me and others.”
Ann had been in a relationship at the time of the attack but it ended due to stress.
She added: “I’ve lost my confidence and have not been able to have relationships with men. When Worboys was jailed I thought he’d gone for good but now this has happened.
“He has obviously played a blinder in jail convincing everyone he’s changed.
“But he’s bound to behave as there are no women there to attack.
“I want other women like me to come forward because he has done the sentence for one rape but has obviously committed others.”