Talk:John Worboys

Notability
Unfortunately, John Worboys is one of the most notable serial rapists in UK history. An article on him and his horrific crimes is definitely warranted. He was convicted yesterday. Fences and windows (talk) 16:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Worth noting?
I stumbled upon this extract of information about John Worboys 'But, rather shockingly, the Mail's sleuths have discovered that "Terry" - who "performed his gyrations to the theme tune from the ITV series Minder" - was in fact the professional name of John Worboys, who earlier this year was convicted of raping several women who had been passengers in his London taxi.'

http://heresycorner.blogspot.com/2009/06/woman-with-past.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrpops2ko (talk • contribs) 15:43, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Classist victimizing language
"professional women" ? If these were "unprofessional men" what would that mean? Zezen (talk) 07:48, 11 July 2019 (UTC) You are right! I will remove the word "professional"--2601:1C0:CB01:2660:78F2:2153:816F:27D0 (talk) 03:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)--2601:1C0:CB01:2660:78F2:2153:816F:27D0 (talk) 03:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)--2601:1C0:CB01:2660:78F2:2153:816F:27D0 (talk) 03:27, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Temazepam
I decided to remove this sentence: His prescription for sleeping problems allowed him to stockpile temazepam, a known date rape drug, which he later used on his female victims for two reasons: 1) I don't think it should be here as an example for bad people 2) I don't think it has any encyclopedic importance and harm the article (by the way, I also doubt the importance of the article itself as I don't see "rapists" as important people in the history of humankind, even given the fact they are serial rapists. --2601:1C0:CB01:2660:78F2:2153:816F:27D0 (talk) 03:17, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


 * Re. the importance of the article:
 * he was a notably prolific serial rapist. His name is very widely known, at least in the UK. People want to get background, and many will hope to find it on Wikipedia.
 * Re. "sedatives": people seem to be very coy about what he used. Apparently this article once named a particular benzodiazepine, but I've just watched a show that (while maintaining coyness) strongly suggested he developed a cocktail over the course of a series of experiments.
 * Wikipedia shouldn't censor itself.
 * Therefore I propose to revert this change. [Edit] and see if I can find some more detail; my guess is that this kind of information is in the public domain.


 * MrDemeanour (talk) 20:27, 1 May 2023 (UTC)

John Derek Radford
What were the circumstances and background that allowed him to legally change his name? Surely not for religious reasons, or to claim an aristocratic title? Nuttyskin (talk) 20:05, 6 January 2024 (UTC)