The Met Police is not alone in admitting failings for the handling of Simon Levy.

British Transport Police (BTP)'s investigation into Levy's sexual assaults was beset by delays, meaning he was not charged for more than six months, despite being filmed carrying out an attack.

Det Ch Supt Pete Fulton, from the BTP, said the delay "absolutely wasn't good enough" and was down to "incompetence" by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.

Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has also been accused of acting too slowly.

Lisa Ramsarran, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, said: "Our actions fell short of the standards that victims, families and the public are entitled to expect.

"In particular, there were points where we could and should have taken a more robust approach to representations about bail, based on the information available."

The Metropolitan Police's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth has previously admitted a "collective system failure" over Levy.

The Met Police was responsible for his monitoring, which encompassed police officers visiting his home and collecting intelligence on him.

Just months before he committed the first offences in this series of convictions, the force had downgraded his status from high-risk to medium-risk.

Two officers from the Met are now facing investigations from the the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) relating to alleged failures in their management of Levy, following a voluntary referral from the force.

A police constable is under a gross misconduct investigation and a detective sergeant a misconduct investigation - with the watchdog’s investigation spanning the time from Levy’s first conviction in September 2021 through to his arrest in September 2025.

Simon Levy attacked the three women in 2025 while on bail for sex assaults on trains in London. He was being monitored and risk-managed by the Met Police throughout.

• Between late 2024 and summer 2025, Levy was freed on bail by police and the courts multiple times - even after being charged with sex offences and having broken bail conditions
• Levy had already been in prison for two sexual assaults. Scotland Yard downgraded his risk to women when he was released in 2024
• The Met closed its investigation into the rape he carried out in January 2025
• The force did not class Valencia-Trujillo's death in March 2025 as a murder, or pass the case to specialist homicide detectives, until after Levy had killed again

• The Met took three years to investigate and charge Levy for the sexual assault of a prison officer, - committed while he was jailed between 2021 and 2023 - with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also acting too slowly
• BTP’s investigation into Levy’s sexual assaults was beset by delays, so he was not charged for more than six months - despite an attack being filmed
• Both the Met and BTP gave Levy back a stolen travelcard which let him travel without paying and commit crimes, including the first murder

Elliot Burrin
Reporting from court

I've just arrived at the Old Bailey, where members of the press are slowly gathering outside.

There's going to be a large media presence at the sentencing today.

The court session is due to start at 11:00 BST, with final remarks from the prosecution and defence, which our reporters will bring you from inside the chamber.

The sentencing itself starts at 12:00 BST - you will be able to watch that part live on this page.

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Simon Levy, a 40-year-old from Tottenham, was found guilty last week of the murders of two vulnerable women and the rape of a third.

In January 2025, Levy raped a women in a Tottenham car park. He forced her to the ground and jumped on her, breaking her collarbone and banging her head against the ground before suffocating and raping her.

Within days, she was arrested for breaching a community protection notice preventing her from being in the area.

She told police what happened but they closed the investigation in the summer, having made limited attempts to speak to her further.

In May 2025, Levy murdered Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in derelict flats in south London, leaving her on the stairwell.

He was arrested weeks later after his DNA was found at the scene, before being released under investigation. The case was not passed to the Met’s homicide command.

In August 2025, Levy murdered Sheryl Wilkins, 39,in the same Tottenham car park he committed the rape in, eight months earlier.

During the trial, the court heard the three women all carried out street sex work in order to fund drug addictions.

Daniel De Simone
Investigations correspondent, reporting from court

Simon Levy was a registered sex offender, who was being monitored by the Met Police when he murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted 10 others on public transport.

That such a man was able to harm so many women is down to police, prosecutors and the courts making a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.

On Friday, at the Old Bailey, he was found guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year - and also the violent rape of another woman in a Tottenham car park.

A police watchdog investigation is underway into the Met’s handling of Levy, and British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have also accepted serious failings.

Today is about Levy being sentenced, and the court may also hear impact statements from the families of Carmenza and Sheryl, and the surviving rape victim.

Cachella Smith
Reporting from the Old Bailey

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Serial sex offender Simon Levy is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey today, after being found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third.

A known sex offender, Levy was being monitored and risk-managed by police when he killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.

The two murders followed the rape of a third woman in January 2025. Levy denied the charges but was found guilty on all counts last week.

He committed the crimes while on bail following arrests for other assaults - and had previously served time in prison for sexual assaults.

Although Levy was being monitored by the police, the force had downgraded him from a high-risk sex offender to a medium-risk one.

The Met, British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have all admitted failings in how they dealt with him. There's an overview of the case in our scrolling graphic below.

I’ll be in court when the sentencing hearing begins later - and we'll bring you the latest news and analysis here as it happens.