Carrie Johnson will be portrayed in a true crime drama about serial rapist John Worboys nearly 20 years after he plied her with spiked vodka in his London taxi.
The wife of ex-prime minister Boris Johnson will be played by Miriam Petche, known for her role in the BBC‘s financial drama Industry, in the ITV show Believe Me.
It tells the story of her harrowing ordeal which happened when she was 19. Mrs Johnson said she hopes the drama ‘serves as a wake-up call’ to the ‘police, the CPS and the parole board’.
‘Far too often, women and girls are failed by the very institutions meant to protect them,’ she said. ‘The treatment of the victims in this case was truly shameful.’
Mrs Johnson, 37, is believed to have been the sex offender’s youngest victim when he picked her up after a night out on London’s King’s Road in 2007 and gave her the spiked vodka.
Acclaimed actor Daniel Mays plays Worboys, who became known as the Black Cab Rapist.
Written by Jeff Pope and expected to air this spring, it will also feature Slow Horses actress Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Sarah, another of Worboys’ victims, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
‘Believe Me is about the courage of every woman who came forward to help put John Worboys behind bars,’ said Sarah. Mrs Johnson was in her first year at Warwick University when the terrifying incident took place.
Carrie Johnson, Boris Johnson’s wife, will be portrayed in a true crime drama about serial rapist John Worboys nearly 20 years after he plied her with spiked vodka in his London taxi
She will be played by Industry actress Miriam Petche (pictured) in ITV’s new programme, recalling the harrowing incident which happened in 2007 when she was just 19 years old
She made it home and then collapsed ‘like a rag doll’ in front of her mother. Six months later she read that a black cab driver had been arrested.
She said: ‘I will never truly know for sure what happened after he drugged me.’
Mrs Johnson was one of nearly 100 women who came forward to the police and one of 14 selected to go to court to testify.
Worboys, now known as John Radford, was convicted in 2009 of attacks on 12 women and in 2019 he was convicted of a further four.