The Director of Public Prosecutions has apologised for Crown Prosecution Service failings that helped leave Simon Levy free while his offending escalated. The apology follows Levy’s conviction and whole-life sentence for murdering two women and raping a third, raising serious questions about how the criminal justice system assessed bail and acted on warning signs.

Levy, 40, murdered Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later. The CPS accepted that relevant bail information was not given to courts and that it should have opposed bail more robustly; Levy had also missed three court hearings over sexual assaults on public transport, with no evidence that a warrant was sought.