Believe Me

The story of the victims of John Worboys, one of the most prolific sex attackers in British history who was dubbed by the media as the Black Cab Rapist after preying on women under the cover of being a 'respectable' licensed taxicab driver - Worboys was convicted in 2009 for sexually assaulting 12 women between 2006 and 2008, with their cases selected from a large number of suspected further victims. This drama focuses on the ordeal of two of the women who reported sexual assaults by Worboys and how the Metropolitan Police failed to thoroughly investigate these women's allegations - this led them to feel that they were just not believed. The women then joined forces with solicitor Harriet Wistrich and Phillippa Kaufmann QC and decided to sue the Metropolitan Police under the Human Rights Act for their failure to properly conduct investigations into their allegations of sexual assault, something that led to them being subjected to degrading treatment and contributed to their distress.