Woman assaulted by double murderer says nightmare became 'real life' when police let him attack again
He will be sentenced on Wednesday.He was also convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting 11 other women, 10 of them on trains and the Tube in London between 2023 and 2025.Police, prosecutors and the courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left Levy free. "They could have prevented two women from losing their lives."Image caption, Simon Levy, from Tottenham, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday. Laura encountered Levy while with a friend travelling to the Notting Hill Carnival on the London Underground in August 2018.
- ▪He will be sentenced on Wednesday.He was also convicted earlier this year of sexually assaulting 11 other women, 10 of them on trains and the Tube in London between 2023 and 2025.Police, prosecutors and the courts made a series of disastrou
- ▪"They could have prevented two women from losing their lives."Image caption, Simon Levy, from Tottenham, will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday.
- ▪Laura encountered Levy while with a friend travelling to the Notting Hill Carnival on the London Underground in August 2018.
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Woman assaulted by double murderer says nightmare became 'real life' when police let him attack againByDaniel De Simone, Investigations correspondent and Amy JohnstonPublished4 minutes agoA woman who was attacked by double murderer Simon Levy eight years ago has told the BBC the police made her nightmare "real life" by letting him go on to kill and attack more women.Laura, whose surname we are not using, said she had been trying to protect other women by reporting Levy in 2018, but feels betrayed by what he was later allowed to do after being released from jail.Levy was convicted on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and raping another woman in London in 2025.
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