Taxi Rapist - John Worboys

[redfox]

The average sentence for rape is between 5-8 years, so Warboys serving at least 9 is longer than average.

I understand drugs were used, instead of violence, perhaps that puts him in a lower sentencing category?

 

 

Use of alcohol/drugs is specifically a factor is taken into consideration - it places the offending into the higher bracket of culpability. Violence - beyond that which is necessary for the offence - puts the offending into the higher bracket when considering harm.

 

I think the average is now 8 years.

[El Cid]

I think the average is now 8 years.

 

The starting point in that document, however, is far from the whole story. Looking at the Crown Prosecution Service's summary of rape sentencing guidelines shows it is the lowest possible starting point, applied only for a single offence of rape by single offender where the victim is over 16.

 

Even in that scenario, the sentencing range is given as 4—8 years.

 

For repeated rape, of one victim over time or of multiple victims, the starting point is 15 years and the range is 13—19 years.

 

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https://fullfact.org/news/five-years-average-prison-sentence-rape/

[redfox]

The starting point in that document, however, is far from the whole story. Looking at the Crown Prosecution Service's summary of rape sentencing guidelines shows it is the lowest possible starting point, applied only for a single offence of rape by single offender where the victim is over 16.

 

Even in that scenario, the sentencing range is given as 4—8 years.

 

For repeated rape, of one victim over time or of multiple victims, the starting point is 15 years and the range is 13—19 years.

 

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https://fullfact.org/news/five-years-average-prison-sentence-rape/

 

 

 

You should have linked to the sentencing guidelines (and they are only relevant to sentencing post 1/4/2014)

 

I know the guidelines and how they are applied - You select Cat 1A - missing out the banner above and reference to a campaign of rape.

Warboys is not a Cat 1A case.

 

You miss the point - how many offences of rape was this taxi driver convicted of?

 

The real issue is his release by the parole board not the original sentence in my view.

[Guest]

Permission has today been granted to judicially review the Parole Board's decision to release John Worboys.

 

A full hearing will take place at the High Court on 13 March 2018.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42975631

[Guest]

The decision to release has now been quashed and remitted back to the Parole Board.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43568533

[Calahonda]

Is he totally reabilitated and not a danger to women? If he was say, terminally ill and incapable of harming anyone then fair enough, however he isn’t, and I don’t consider that it’s worth taking the risk with other people’s lives.

[taxman]

The decision to release has now been quashed and remitted back to the Parole Board.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43568533

 

I'm a bit surprised by that to be honest. I thought parole board decisions were practically untouchable unless fundamental points of law had been broken.

 

I'm glad though.

[El Cid]

Is he totally reabilitated and not a danger to women? If he was say, terminally ill and incapable of harming anyone then fair enough, however he isn’t, and I don’t consider that it’s worth taking the risk with other people’s lives.

 

Do they rehabilitate people in jail? I thought jail was a punishment, and then they are released.

Its the Governments eagerness to let people out early that has caused this issue.

Someone has resigned, a fall guy; the system needs to change, so that people are rehabilitated.

[ANGELFIRE1]

Scum bag needs and deserves life.

 

Angel1

[taxman]

He has now pleaded guilty to further charges involving drugging four other women.