Simon Levy, a 40-year-old serial sex offender from north London, has been given a whole-life term at the Old Bailey for the murders of two women and the rape of a third, after police and prosecutors admitted a series of failures that left him free to offend while on bail.
The sentence means he will never be released and comes after it emerged that Levy carried out his second murder while on bail as a suspect for the first. Both the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have accepted that institutional errors left a known offender at liberty across the capital.
