ITV Drama Believe Me Premieres on Worboys Victims

ITV's four-part drama "Believe Me" premiered on Sunday night, recounting the true stories of victims targeted by London black cab driver John Worboys, known as the Black Cab Rapist, and their struggles against investigative shortcomings by the Metropolitan Police.

The series, written by Jeff Pope, centers on two women, Sarah and Laila—pseudonyms for real survivors portrayed by Aimée Ffion Edwards and Aasiya Shah—who reported sexual assaults by Worboys in the mid-2000s. Both described being picked up late at night after evenings out, offered drug-laced champagne under the pretense of celebrating a casino win, and waking disoriented or in hospital. Their initial complaints were not thoroughly pursued, leading to years of frustration and self-doubt.

Daniel Mays plays Worboys, who was arrested in 2008 after senior officer Tim Grattan-Kane linked testimonies from multiple women. In 2009, he received an indeterminate sentence for public protection with an eight-year minimum term for drugging and assaulting 12 women between 2006 and 2008. Police estimate his victims exceed 100, with offenses dating back to 2000. In 2019, after additional victims came forward, he admitted to a...