John Worboys was a serial rapist who had a unique modus operandi, that, the fact that he drove a black cab rather than a mini-cab, and the fact that the women he targeted had been drinking, some of them heavily, enabled him to get away with it for so long.
This documentary speaks to victims, people who knew him, and to some of the men and women who tracked him down and prosecuted him. Although at the time, the Metropolitan Police came in for a lot of flak, much of this was not simply wisdom in hindsight but misguided. There have been many cases worldwide of women falsely accusing taxi drivers of sexual assault:
September 1949: Waverley, New South Wales - a married woman.
February 1992: London - allegedly raped at gunpoint by the driver.
August 2005: Johnsonville, New Zealand - a young woman who claimed to have been raped then charged a $30 fare!
More recently, in April 2017, a criminology student in Leeds falsely accused a taxi driver of rape because he had refused a £10 note soaked in kebab oil.
Mostly though such false accusers are simply young women who are the worse for drink or intent on avoiding the fare. Allegations of sexual assaults by mini-cab drivers - false and real - are a particular problem in London, but black cab drivers are a premium ride because they are intensely trained, screened and vetted. It is then understandable that the police were initially skeptical. True, they did miss one golden opportunity to put Worboys behind bars, but when he raped a young virgin - yes, they do exist, even in London - they finally got their act together.
We are told here that a total of 14 women testified against Worboys, out of a total of 102 who complained. All those who reported their assaults before the police appealed for victims to come forward are almost certainly genuine, and probably most of the rest because of the way they appealed without putting too much information out there for the inevitable bandwagon.
Outrageous as the Worboys case was and is, it took a farcical turn on January 4, 2018 when it was announced he was to be parolled. Thankfully, a massive high profile campaign led to the Court Of Appeal putting a stop to that.