How police let a registered sex offender murder and attack women

What I cannot understand is that he has been sentenced to six years in prison. SIX MEASLY YEARS. For murdering two women and assaulting countless others.

He’ll no doubt be out in three. Ready to roam the tube again and probably kill some more. All good.

The Met said they had 10,000 sex attackers on their books… Granted that is a nightmare to deal with but they had caught the Simon Levy individual and still treated him as if he had merely stolen a loaf of bread.

God it was just a harrowing article. What are the point of laws if the police are just so inept? Why are they not doing their jobs properly? It seems like casual disregard.

I didn’t mean to suggest that the Met being institutionally misogynistic is somehow a new phenomenon. I certainly don’t think it is.

My point was more that the current London and national leadership doesn’t seem to be doing much to address it, or denies it, which is why I was wondering whether there’s a particular feminist movement or organisation pushing for change within the police specifically.

I suppose some of my scepticism comes from personal experience too. I was randomly assaulted on a busy London high street in broad daylight, and the police didn’t investigate it, essentially saying there were “no resources unless I was murdered.”

There are obviously resources being devoted to other less important things, including pursuing people over things they’ve said online...so that doesn't add up does it?

How could they not investigate a known sex offender whose DNA is found on the body of a dead woman found in a derelict building? Absolutely unbelievable, beyond incompetence, just straight up disregard for the lives of women.

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Apparently, none of their colleagues challenged them when they expressed misogynistic views, long before they committed their crimes.

How can any woman trust the Met police?

Yeah that really says it out loud, doesn't it? It's not just sex workers we don't give a shit about.

Weirdly one of the things that really struck me reading this was the fact that it wasn’t only sex workers who were dismissed and left without care or justice, it was the poor bloody prison officer as well. Her assault was caught on camera, they obviously knew who he was, nothing done for 5 years. What hope for any of the rest of us?? How could they possibly justify this?? And then to downgrade his danger level 😭

I have been following this on the Crime Desk / The Trial Podcast. Women are treated as disposable, particularly sex workers. It is utterly horrific. It was scary hearing the defence barrister trying to dismiss these horrific murders as drug overdoses. RIP Carmenza and Sheryl.

Times reports that it was the Met who investigated the harassment complaint.

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This so fucking disgusting and horrific. The Met are an absolute disgrace. There should be no way two individual police officers are responsible for downgrading a sex offenders risk. I would love to read their policies and procedures.

Reading this made my blood boil.

I am sick to death of the disgustingly misogynistic Met Police. They truly are not fit for purpose and haven't been for decades.

Sickening. The big question is - how many OTHER Levys are still out there right now for similar reasons, where are they, and are the police going to finally pull their fingers out and start identifying, finding and arresting THEM, before the next similar story appears?

The Met is too busy telling journalists not to harass Cambridge professors to investigate murders.

This is just utterly shameful. I want to feel anger towards the lot of them but it's beginning to feel hopeless that women and girls are not protected and nothing will be done. How was his risk level ever downgraded? The met had all his history fgs. We cannot rely on the police or the legal system to keep us safe.

Levy had already been in prison for two sexual assaults, and Scotland Yard downgraded Levy's risk to women upon his release in 2024, a decision now under investigation by the police watchdog

Women really are disposable. The violently raped woman likely ignored because she was a sex worker and two women he murdered sound as though they might’ve been homeless? So again, women not worth thoroughly investigating. And yet I am still shocked. I shouldn’t be, but I am.

I can't begin to imagine how the families of those women must feel. It's beyond words how appalling this is.

Just read it. Beggars belief. The response is so bad, time after time, that rather than just cock-ups, the most likely explanation is, they just don't give a shit. How many lives has this man wrecked, whilst police do fuck all?

Bloody Hell, this is the very definition of a clusterfuck. Two entirely useless Police forces, not communicating with one another.

Those poor, poor women; it's scarcely creditable that they downgraded him and reduced their monitoring of him, with his record. I see that they have blamed two low rankers and moved them sideways.

What about their seniors, who had oversight of them? What were they doing? Why are they not being held responsible? It's scarcely the first time we've heard of low ranked cops, not having proper training and being left to get on with things - with disastrous results.

It's plain that most forces need serious reform, perhaps including sacking whichever officers are involved, including those way up the chain, who show insufficient curiosity about those down the chain.

The Met were shit in the Glory Days of Thatcher. Maybe if it were a party political problem it would be solved by now.

Turns out misogyny and racism are across the board.