Police watchdog probes BTP detectives over Simon Levy case
- The Independent Office for Police Conduct has launched an investigation into two British Transport Police detectives over alleged failures to properly investigate serial sex offender Simon Levy.
- Levy was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month for the sexually motivated murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins in 2025, along with the rape of a third woman.
- The watchdog is examining delays in Levy’s handling by police after he was bailed despite being arrested for sexual assaults on the London Underground in late 2024.
- A separate IOPC probe remains ongoing into two Metropolitan Police officers regarding their management of Levy after his release on licence in February 2023.
- The Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service have all admitted failings in how they dealt with him.
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