How police let a registered sex offender murder and attack women
A convicted sex offender, Simon Levy, was found guilty of murdering two women and assaulting others after a series of systemic failures by police and the courts. Investigations are now underway regarding the Metropolitan Police's decision to downgrade his risk level while he was on bail.
Why it matters
The case highlights critical failures in the criminal justice system's ability to monitor high-risk offenders and protect the public.
Figure caption, Watch footage from a Levy sexual assault victim that was passed to police
Warning: Contains graphic details of sexual offences
A convicted sex offender murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on public transport, after police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.
A jury at the Old Bailey has now found Simon Levy guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia Trujillo, 54, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year - and also the violent rape of another woman in a car park.
Levy had been downgraded by the Metropolitan Police as a risk to women before he carried out the attacks.
The Met told the BBC it accepts the life of Sheryl Wilkins could have been saved. The force had apologised to her family, it said.
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