Justice Secretary David Gauke has requested advice from lawyers on whether the release of black cab rapist John Worboys could be challenged in court.
The decision of the Parole Board to approve the release of Worboys later this month caused outrage amongst his victims, charities and MPs.
According to the Sunday Times, Mr Gauke, who became Justice Secretary last Monday, has come under pressure from four fellow Cabinet ministers to bring a judicial review of the decision.
In a statement, a Ministry of Justice spokesperson confirmed lawyers had been asked to make an assessment on the merits of an intervention.
Although we were told the parole board decision was final and couldn't be changed, we are now told that's not the case.
Can these four fellow cabin ate members now put pressure on the Justice secretary David Gauke to now have a look at a few other problems the London Taxi trade have been told can't be amended or changed.
Let's see this man put a complete halt to the unsafe, illegal car service, currently working on a theoretical licence in the interest of public safety!
Let's see him put an immediate stop on the 12,000 private hire drivers with fake criminal record check DBS certificate, currently swept under the carpet at TfL!
Let's see him revoke the licenses of the many hundreds of private hire drivers who presented fake medical checks!
Let's see him stop the parties of private hire drivers lending their Minicabs to unlicensed friends and family!
This posted earlier today on the LCDC FaceBook group by Chairman of the LCDC Grant Davis :
Let’s hope the Justice system sees sense and reviews this whole situation:
And why they are at it, let’s scrape the whole PH “letter of good conduct sham” and also put a stop to the remaining 12,000 PH drivers with fake DBS working and putting woman at risk!
If the Govt actually want to do something for woman safety, let’s do it properly for woman’s safety now and going forwards.
4 comments:
It's so unusual for this to happen in a Taxi hence the mass media response to it,& let's hope he rots in hell.
But what i can't understand is how our trade org's have not jumped on this & showed to the media/public just what's going on with ph/tfl,the 13,000 that tfl have seemingly given up on checking & letting go & why a tightening up needs to be done.
Or is it a case of this will damage the taxi trade,who tfl want to get rid of,but with ph--rapes are viewed as collateral damage that don't matter anymore because the public want cheap.
Do think this would have been in the news if it was uber driver they would shut it down just that
Warbouys was after TFL took over from the met commissioner and should have rung alarm bells that the new way of regulating cabs wasn't fit for purpose.
Although the police in SE London knew about there being a rogue driver nothing was done. The met's PCO would have been telephoned and could have acted immediately, if only to cover their own backsides
Subsequent events confirm TFL are unfit to regulate cabs.
The real story is about inadequate regulation.
Ironic that even with our strict rules and regs Worboys managed to slip through the net is a trigger for people to call for less strict controls???!! You’d think the opposite would apply??!! Not this Gig economy style “buy a box of corn flakes/got a car?/welcome to your new career style” nonsense TfL are overseeing!! The Leytonstone throat slasher (Muhiddin Mire?) who was licenced by TfL as PH driver should have led to a Public Inquiry on the spot!!!
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