How police let a registered sex offender murder and attack women

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If anyone has listened or watched any news today you will have seen yet another case where the police have failed to protect women.

Do they just not care, or is it too much bother to monitor registered sex offenders. Who was on bail.

Let alone not bothering to investigate murders.

This just keeps on happening.

RIP to the women who died and to the brave survivor who help convict this man.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8jnrk4xlvdo

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/07/simon-levy-murders-has-anything-changed-in-policing-since-sarah-everard-killing

https://www.hertsad.co.uk/news/national/26446874.two-police-officers-investigation-sex-predator-left-free-kill/

good, let him rot.

There was an item yesterday on imprisonment for public protection orders and the people still in prison even though the use of the sentence was abolished.

Would something like that have worked on him? Shaki Chakrabarti was on the paper reviews when he was found guilty last week railing against how and why he had so many convictions and behaviours but no one thought to treat his behaviour as more than a series of one-off attacks. I'm fairly sure Liberty campaigned for these to be abolished when she was head of that organisation.

My experience of IPP prisoners is that mostly those who are safe to go out, have got out.

The IPP prisoners still left in prison, have generally served a lot longer in prison than was fair but they are also scary people who the Parole Board don't want to be responsible for releasing.

I read that article open-mouthed with horror. They literally had footage of him committing crime on video, twice, yet the pieces weren’t put together…

I think any sexual assault should be treated as a gateway crime for other violent crime.

If only he had tweeted something mean.

IPP has been abolished because in fact far too many people who were convicted of petty crimes are still in prison, because for example they continue to claim they are innocent.

Its also linked to the problem of staff shortage ie to gain release they have to go through various programmes. Many of these get cut, or aren't available at all prisons.

Not as far as I know ever were anything to do with supposedly protecting people from potentially violent prisoners.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ipp-sentence-early-release-scheme-prison-burnham-b3030960.html

Sorry didn't mean to derail the thread.

The problem is that not just the police, but the legal system etc., seems unable to coordinate with each other and register that this man was a repeat offender, plus the usual anti woman bias that because the women concerned were not deemed by the police to be worth bothering about, they didn't investigate.

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

And a third, not sure in this case, that there are men who have been violent who are clearly not able or fit to live in society.

The concept of helping people to live as part of a community is great. But men who are violent should not be part of that.

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

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

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.

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

The prisons are full - it is going to get worse

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.....?

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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?" ✅