Could Carrie Symonds be behind Boris Johnson's recent pledge to disqualify shorter sentences for sexual and violent offenders? After she was targeted by John Worboys, the 'black cab' rapist - Carrie was one of the women who campaigned, and won, against a Parole Board decision to release Worboys after just 10 years.
has spoken out about cracking down on sentences for sexual and violent offenders - which have been criticised in the past by charities such as Rape Crises for being too lenient. Could it be that Carrie is behind - or at least an influencing factor - in this announcement? If so, it's done nothing but validatehas said in a new statement 'we have all seen examples of rapists and murderers let out too soon or people offending again as soon as they’re released. This ends now.
It comes as welcome news to the majority of us. It's a devastating reality that if you haven't had your own life irrevocably altered by: chances are that you probably have a friend, colleague or family member who has. Nothing is more crushing than seeing someone who has forever affected another person's life be punished by spending just a fraction of their sentence behind bars.
'In January, I found out that Worboys was to be released early.' Carrie wrote 'I had originally been told he would be in prison for far longer — maybe even for life — given the extent of his crimes. So what had changed?'. Continuing, she posed the question 'why did the Parole Board decide he was no longer a risk? What did it know that I didn’t?' She went on to help raise £70,000 to help support two victims of Worboys who called for a judicial review.
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