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14 police could face prosecution over botched sex attack probes Victims of black cab rapist John Worboys in court to see him jailed indefinitely Women's rape claims ignored after police filed reports wrongly Rape trial cabbie: I was a male stripper for 13 years New mother 'drugged and assaulted by taxi driver' assaulted new mother' Black cab driver 'drugged women then sexually assaulted them'

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New Police rape unit staffed by untrained detectives

21.10.09
Scotland Yard came under fire for staffing a new unit aimed at catching more rapists with untrained detectives... more

Police watchdog investigates rape case

19.10.09
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14 police could face prosecution over botched sex attack probes

12.10.09
Fourteen Met police officers face possible prosecution for errors which allowed two serial sex attackers in London to escape detection for years... more

Harriet Harman in pledge on rape cases

22.09.09
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Black cab drivers' fury over wife killer

11.09.09
Hundreds of black cab drivers caused traffic jams in Islington during a protest against plans to allow a schizophrenic killer to train for a taxi licence... more

Jailed for life: rapist stalker who may have attacked 100 women

04.06.09
A stalker suspected of attacking nearly 100 women and allowed to roam free by police blunders was jailed for life today with a minimum term of seven and a half years.... more

The taxi wars bringing tension to the capital's streets

15.05.09
Black cab drivers shamelessly stealing each other's fares and minicabs ramming their rivals - the recession has brought mounting tension to London's streets... more

Two-thirds of CID detectives in Met are not trained detectives

12.05.09
Scotland Yard is short of almost 2,000 trained detectives, it has been revealed... more

Two-thirds of CID detectives in Met are not fully trained

12.05.09
Scotland Yard is short of almost 2,000 trained detectives, it has been revealed... more

My love of black cabs comes at a high price

23.04.09
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Victims of black cab rapist John Worboys in court to see him jailed indefinitely

21.04.09
Black cab rapist John Worboys was jailed indefinitely and told to hand over cash and his taxi to pay his victims for their trauma... more

Boris ‘betrayal’ as he breaks his promise

21.04.09
Boris Johnson was accused of "betrayal" as it was revealed he has ditched plans for three rape crisis centres... more

Checks on rape police after Worboys fiasco

15.04.09
Police forces will face regular assessments of how well they are investigating rape cases following a string of high profile failures... more

Crises that show the Met has lost sight of its defining role for our city

09.04.09
With the death of an innocent man and resignation of one of its most senior figures, London’s police force is in danger of losing our trust ... more

Disarray within Plumstead CID left black cab rapist on streets

06.04.09
The Met was warned nine months before it freed black-cab rapist John Worboys that the key local units which handled his case were in chaos... more

Mother of Sally Anne Bowman: Store everyone's DNA on a national database

31.03.09
The mother of murdered London model Sally Anne Bowman called for a DNA database of everyone in Britain to help police catch rapists and other serious criminals... more

Failure to catch rapist Kirk Reid 'a Lawrence moment', says chief

26.03.09
One of Britain's most senior police officers has compared the failures to catch rapist Kirk Reid to the blunders in the investigation into the race murder of Stephen Lawrence... more

Black cabs – they’re a symbol of safety

19.03.09
Awful to open the papers to read about John Worboys, the black cab driver guilty of hundred of rapes and assaults on women. All the times I've said to my daughter when she was travelling home late, "Don't get in a minicab, whatever you do, get a proper taxi," thinking she'd be all right and now? Well, I'm determined this isn't going to change a thing. ... more

Greenwich police chief axed after taxi rape case blunders

19.03.09
A police chief whose officers bungled investigations into black cab rapist John Worboys and the killer of teenager Rob Knox has been removed... more

One Met chief, 80 officers and helicopter raid home but suspect's already in cell

17.03.09
It was supposed to be a high-profile operation to smash a notorious burglary gang with the new Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson leading from the front... more

Women's rape claims ignored after police filed reports wrongly

16.03.09
A series of rape allegations was not investigated properly because Metropolitan Police officers failed to classify complaints correctly, Scotland Yard said... more

The peeping tom who got his kicks from stripping and having sex on stage

13.03.09
John Worboys began on the path to becoming Britain’s most prolific sex offender long before he was the black-cab rapist... more

Guilty: black cab rapist preyed on scores of women

13.03.09
A black cab driver was convicted this afternoon of carrying out a string of sex attacks on women passengers he drugged in the back of his taxi... more

‘I’ll never know for sure what happened to me’

13.03.09
Caroline Symonds has relived the night she fell victim to John Worboys again and again to try to piece together what he did to her... more

Rape trial cabbie: I was a male stripper for 13 years

20.02.09
The licensed black cab driver accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women passengers was a male stripper for 13 years, a court heard... more

‘Cabbie in sex attacks case plied me with champagne’

26.01.09
An alleged victim of a cab driver who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting young female passengers told a court today how he kissed her in the back of his cab after giving her champagne... more

‘Taxi driver told me I was lovely and offered me a pill’

23.01.09
A woman told a court that she found two buttons were missing from her coat the morning after she was driven home by a taxi driver who plied her with champagne... more

New mother 'drugged and assaulted by taxi driver' assaulted new mother'

22.01.09
The driver of a black cab drugged and sexually assaulted a mother on her first night out after the birth of her child, a court was told... more

Black cab driver 'drugged women then sexually assaulted them'

21.01.09
A London black cab driver toured the West End at night looking for vulnerable women who he picked up, drugged and sexually assaulted, a court was told... more

Cab driver faces court charged with sex attacks

19.02.08
A cab driver has been charged over a series of attacks where women were allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted... more

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