John Worboys' victims win human rights case against police

The Met are pretty dreadful. I really hope things improve. I remember this case from a while back:
www.channel4.com/news/sapphire-sex-crime-unit-guilty-of-shocking-failings

I'm glad this has happened

but I still want to know WTF the Parole Board are on and what their excuses are for releasing him.

I'm delighted about this. Maybe this will be the momentum they need to start investigating sexual violence effectively.

The Met has plenty of form for being totally shit wrt sexual violence. I'm glad they've been pulled up on it for once.

I think the issue the police had with this was not that they don’t want to investigate rape properly - on the whole they do. I think they’re concerned about keeping control of operational priorities when their resources are scarce. I see that point but the failures in the worboys case seem to have been so utterly appalling they can’t possibly have been within any reasonable approach by the police, so I think this is the right outcome.

According to the article, the total awarded to the victims was £41,250. Which is hardly a fortune between the two of them.

I'd certainly be interested in seeing the Met's legal bill that they have run up in fighting this.

Could this be end up being something of an own goal? I can't see how it wouldn't be the same for men asserting that their human rights have been violated under article 3 when police refuse to even investigate false accusations?

Obviously investigating fraud is way more important than preventing hundreds of violent rapes would have been

That's a shitty response from the Met. Although I'm not surprised.

If you do your job that badly then there should be consequences.

A small piece of good news. At last there will be some redress for victims after the dreadful practices evidenced in this case which enabled him to offend for as long as he did.

Very pleased to read this - but frankly I'm shocked by the Met Police's response to it.

The Metropolitan police warned that the decision means the force will have to shift resources away from areas such as fraud in order to comply with the judgment.

Which to me reads like, 'oh you uppity women actually want us to work on your rape cases, do you? We have important fraud to investigate, don't you realise?'

They failed so many women. And then the Parole Board failed them again.

Speaking after the ruling, DSD, who was attacked in 2003, said: “I want to tell the police: ‘You had the procedures in place now start doing your job. Stop using public money to fight [this case against liability]. Had you done your job properly there would not have been 105 victims. I can take the one victim. I can’t take the 105.’”

Given that woman a fucking standing ovation. How brave those two were to pursue this.

very good news - thanks for spotting that.

I'm very pleased for the victims, and I''m also relieved for all of us. Imagine the future if they had lost.