BLACK Cab Rapist John Worboys must remain in jail because he is still a danger to women, the Parole Board has ruled.
A panel found there is a “high risk” he would commit further serious sexual offences if freed.
Worboys, 68, who drugged his victims, indicated he would not ask to be let out as he did not “meet the test for release”, papers showed.
Boris Johnson’s wife, Carrie, 38, a Worboys target who helped bring him to justice, said: “It has been a hugely anxious wait knowing that Worboys was up for parole again.
“The relief I feel knowing that he will remain behind bars is hard to put into words.
“Women and girls across Britain are safer as a result of this decision.”
In 2017, a Parole Board panel decided he was ready for release, sparking a legal challenge by two of his victims that successfully got the decision overturned.
Amid outrage over the battle, rules were then changed to allow some parole hearings to be held in public and permit better scrutiny of the processes used.
Worboys was first jailed in 2009 for 19 sexual offences against 12 women in London.
He got two life terms in 2019 for four additional attacks.
He will be reconsidered for parole in about two years.
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