A judge took just ten minutes to throw out an appeal by John Worboys, the taxi driver convicted of a string of sex offences across London.

Worboys, 53, who drugged and assaulted female passengers, including two women from Wandsworth, was jailed for a minimum of eight years in April.

On Tuesday, he went to the Court of Appeal to try to adjourn his appeal against two of his convictions, but instead he had it dismissed completely.

The former stripper, from Rotherhithe, south-east London, was convicted of rape and 18 other charges of drugging and sexually assaulting women in the back of his cab.

Worboys had approached the court for an adjournment on his leave to appeal, as his legal team had advised him his current grounds to challenge the convictions were unsustainable.

But Lord Justice Moses ruled that unsustainable grounds were not a basis for extending an appeal period.

He added that if the adjournment was granted it would create anxiety for his victims.

After his conviction, police said he may be linked to 85 other attacks in the across southern England since 2002.