Hard cases make bad law. The release on parole of the ‘black cab rapist’, John Worboys, is a hard case. But ministers should not be panicked into throwing open parole board decision–making to public inspection.
The police have blundered, the sentence was surely too lenient, and the failure to inform his victims was disgraceful.
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