How police let a registered sex offender murder and attack women

Had to do a bit of digging but finally found a statement from Sadiq Khan on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?storyfbid=1597889581693800&id=100044183211890

All a bit thoughts and prayers. You'd think he'd make more of a fuss about it as public transport is the USP of the capital.

Never mind, put up more " you are loved and valued" posters up

Eg in this case it seems the MET police were perhaps less bothered by the first violent rape because the victim was a sex worker. Some people have a mental divide between "normal" women and women in prostitution so you can have a veneer of safety for most people and unpleasant stuff going on under the rug.

You also have to consider - is the 'sex worker' going to help police with the enquiry. I think the area where the offence happened breached an order where she was not allowed to enter - so obviously she is anti-social to a degree and not going to make herself available to be seen by police.

Yes, a rape is a far more serious offence that a breach of the order - but is she going to be helpful to police in the rape enquiry or just make herself unavailable for them.

If she does, then the police can't gather the evidence that is needed to progress the case further.

I think treating crime as a public health issue not a moral failing has worked quite well in bringing crime levels and reoffending levels down in lots of areas. However the mistake is in thinking because it works for some types of crime it applies to all of them. Sexual.violence isn't a crime of poverty or low self esteem. You only need to look at Epstein or Jimmy Saville or Trump. Yes some predators will be poor and going through some difficult things in their lives, but they aren't predators because they are poor or having a hard times. Underneath it all is a deep current of extreme selfishness and arrogance. And that is a moral failing. In the way that being a shoplifter (though it causes distress and serious problems) isn't

Usually fraud cases would also be allowed out on remand. Even the cases of people (left and right) investigated and even prosecuted for inciting violence etc will be allowed out on remand before trial if it comes to trial.
The only time fraud cases might result in someone not getting bail is if they are a flight risk. Usually if someone is very wealthy and has contacts abroad. What needs to happen is for the risk assessment for violent men and sexually violent men to be tightened.

The other issue is the long wait time before trial. It's awful for victims but also means the accused is either in prison for a long time without having been found guilty or wandering the streets. Neither of those options are good, for different reasons.

But in this case he was clearly a threat so there's no excuse really

Agree it's not just a party political thing. And TBH as a woman I feel safe visiting Londonnand even (gasp) wearing jewellery. The feeling safety/overall safety aspects matter a lot, but unfortunately concentrating only on them leads to skewed priorities.

Eg in this case it seems the MET police were perhaps less bothered by the first violent rape because the victim was a sex worker. Some people have a mental divide between "normal" women and women in prostitution so you can have a veneer of safety for most people and unpleasant stuff going on under the rug. You see that happen a lot when people talk about how "safe" Hungary, Dubai, Moscow etc feel (often with a negative comparison to multicultural London). But while I would feel very safe walking around Budapest as an adult middle class woman there's a lot of child sex trafficking and adult sexual exploitation that happens. It only happens to certain women though so it's "safe" for tourists. Likewise times 100 for Dubai.

I would like to imagine the UK is better than those places but unfortunately there are some police forces where the misogyny is deeply entrenched. And it's not necessarily an evenly spaced misogyny. One woman might be a "real" victim, another isn't because they are working class or a prostitute or black race.

I can understand why people get defensive when you have right wing American pundits incorrectly holding London up as super dangerous/a multicultural hell hole. Objectively it's safer than every single US city. But I wish we could ignore them and also focus on fixing what needs fixing. Because there are problems even if murders are comparatively low. I think America being so awful makes it easier to ignore that.

"Did perp commit fraud?" - yes, we can still find a cell for him, that's more important than mostly women and girls' safety.

My concern is that this is the praxis of prison abolition and the preference for Restorative Justice and rehabilitation first rather than considering reoffending risks. These are all well meaning high minded theories and policies. It's the sort of thing that would get you a round of applause in Question Time as a longer term solution, but in practice it becomes a tick box exercise.

"Has perp said sorry?" ✅

" Is perp willing to seek help?" ✅

On Womans Hour today, first item with a Deputy Assistant Commissioner and Joan Smith

It isn’t his the police. Their performance here is not good enough but it’s the wider criminal justice system that lets women down. How do we have a society that grants bail to repeat violent sex offenders? How do we have some sentencing for rape that is less for non violent offences? The CPS has many faults too.

These details are fucking astounding @Lalgarh , ETA your post at 09:44.

There's a tiny possibility that there may be the odd consequence thrown about for a lessons have been learned headline for those who followed instructions but it'll be interesting to see if there are any consequences at all for any of those who made those decisions.

April - May 2025
Levy is reported to BTP for another sexual assault on the Tube and later charged with five sexual assaults and remanded in police custody.
He appears in court and is released on bail.
More sexual assault on train in may and June 2025

So - for this example, the police arrest, interview & investigate him. CPS charged him to court and the police/CPS are telling the court that he should be remanded due to his risk.

Yet the court release him!!!!!!

So is this a fault of the court process?

This ironically is "defund the police" in action.

Joan Smith suggested that the courts are, in effect incentivising offenders to escalate their crimes because they know they won't face consequences for what's seen as "lesser" sex offences

It seems that the police are doing the arresting, interviewing & investigating when things are reported to them, but they are being let down by the rest of the system.

I believe that they present the evidence they have to CPS for a decision to charge - so is it CPS that is letting the process down

The court won't keep him in - so is it the courts that are letting the process down.

As I said before - how are the met expected to manage 10,000 sex offenders properly with limited resources?

Yes it's Joan Smith and some waffling woman called Helen I think from the Met.

Helen has just said something about "putting positive obligations on offenders" and managing non custodial options.

Listening to the radio on this, she points out the gov prefer to make statements on disposable bbqs than this failure.

She’s right. And agree with pp re tweets and over imprisonment.

Just hearing about this now, sounds awful. Poor women and families.

Pasted here from the he BBC article

Timeline of offences

February 2023:

Levy is released from prison on licence, meaning he serves the rest of his sentence in the community under certain conditions.

He receives irregular visits at home from a police officer managing him.

October 2023

Levy sexually assaults a woman on a Tube train.

She reports it on the day but he is not identified by British Transport Police (BTP) for another two years.

May 2024

The Met receives a third-party allegation of rape relating to Levy.

He is arrested and returned to prison for breach of licence, where he remains until the end of his sentence.

August 2024

Levy is released from prison.

The Met becomes the sole agency responsible for managing his risk of future offending and downgrades him from a high-risk sex offender to medium risk, meaning a lower level of monitoring and contact.

Oct to Nov 2024

Levy sexually assaults three women on the Tube in two separate incidents. One victim films him committing an assault on another victim.

Levy is interviewed under caution by BTP but he is not charged.

He is released on bail.

Jan 2025

A vulnerable street sex worker is violently raped by Levy in a car park in Tottenham.

Within days, she is arrested for breaching a community protection notice, which prevented her from being in the area, and tells police what happened to her.

She provides a good description of Levy and where he lives.

The Met closes the investigation that summer, having made limited attempts to speak to her further.

16 march 2025

Levy murders Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in derelict flats in south London.

Weeks later, local police arrest Levy on suspicion of murder after his DNA is found at the scene.

He is released under investigation but the case is not passed to the Met’s homicide command and is not formally classed as a murder.

April - May 2025

Levy is reported to BTP for another sexual assault on the Tube and later charged with five sexual assaults and remanded in police custody.

He appears in court and is released on bail.

More sexual assault on train in may and June 2025

August 2025

Levy murders Sheryl Wilkins in Tottenham.

He is arrested and eventually charged with the murders of both Sheryl and Carmenza.

He is also charged with rape, intentional suffocation, and inflicting grievous bodily harm with intent against the woman he attacked in January 2025.

I think there are only 30,000 officers in the met in total.
So that will be a third of their total staff just monitoring the 10,000 sex offenders

How is that manageable exactly.....?

The prisons are full - it is going to get worse

Do you have a nasty injury where you bit your lip, @EveryoneIsPointingNow ? 😁

But then worth remembering the number of serving police who are charged with crimes of violence against women.

I came out of the bathroom, in my crappy old dressing gown with a towel round my hair, and as I passed the front window I happened to notice my next door neighbours' late teens grandson talking to them on their driveway. I went into the bedroom to blow dry my hair and realised from what I was seeing in the reflection of the mirror that said grandson was now on their garage roof, thinking he couldn't be seen, watching me.

You will no doubt feel as I did when a very proud granny told me a few months later that her precious grandson had been accepted to join the police.

I don't know how that guy kept his sanity. And of course he's not the only one.

I wonder what Andrew Malkinson feels about all this ? Or those people wrongly convicted and exonerated without compensation ?