Woman who says she was drugged and thrown in Thames by John Worboys claims police told her they ‘had enough victims’
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/woman-who-says-she-was-drugged-and-thrown-in-thames-by-john-worboys-claims-polic-5HjdZh6_2/
Posted by tylerthe-theatre
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I bet she wishes Worboys had said that. He didn’t seem to be respecting any quotas.
Not a new phenomenon, that guy that david tennant played from the 70s and 80s only got charged with enough to put him away, not all that he did.
On an individual level it would suck, but the job of the police is to get criminals put away, not individual justice for every person they have committed a crime against
Im assuming the police officer’s intent was to”We’ve got so much evidence against him already that’s he’s definitely going to prison for a long time, so we don’t need to put you through the trauma of reliving it all again”.
Still REALLY bad though. Every victim should have the right to be heard.
A lot of police in this country really don’t seem to give a shit. They treat you like you’re inconveniencing them by bringing up crimes.
Did they though, or did they say “we have other victims with much stronger evidence we can definitely prove, where as you case has less probable evidence that may cause doubt so it’s better if we don’t put it forward” but that wasn’t snappy enough for the headline?
What they *actually* said matters.
This the same Worboys whom the parole board decided to release in 2018, despite protests from senior prison managers, prison psychologists, the probation service and the justice secretary?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43383113
What’s the point here, though? The police already had a strong enough case to take Warboys to trial, given he was charged in February 2008, and secured a conviction with an indeterminate sentence in March 2009.
All we have here is Houlston’s (who didn’t come forward until 2009 and whose own case was not proceeded with due to the CPS viewing it as having insufficient evidence) second hand account, and, in any event, Warboys *was* tried on further charges in 2019, found guilty and given two life sentences.
The police cannot pursue every allegation. They have to go to trial with the stuff they think they can get a conviction for. It’s not a perfect system and they did behave appallingly in some cases, but that’s how it works.
The police handling of this case is off the scale even by their standards. I’m appalled, embarrassed and shocked all at the same time. They are awful.
All the people saying they had enough evidence are missing one major point. Every victim deserves justice. They may have had enough evidence to put him away, but he should be done for every crime they can prove regardless. That’s their job.
Similar situation with Fred and Rose West, pretty much everyone involved in the case have said there are almost certainly more victims buried somewhere but Fred’s dead and Rose is in prison so the police haven’t bothered looking for them.