The police watchdog has announced that it is investigating “alleged failures of Met Police officers in their management” of serial sex attacker Simon Levy after he was convicted of murdering two women and raping a third.

After Levy was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday afternoon, an Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) spokesperson said: “Our independent investigation began in January following a voluntary conduct referral from the force, relating to alleged failures by two officers in his management following his prison release on licence in February 2023.

“We are investigating the management of Simon Levy from his first conviction in September 2021 up to his arrest in September 2025.

“We are examining whether action could or should have been taken to prevent his reoffending, and if all officers involved in his management followed policies, procedures, and training.

“We are also assessing whether any learning, whether individual, force-wide, or nationally or other changes should be implemented in light of the events under investigation.

“At this stage, we have served a gross misconduct notice on a police constable and a misconduct notice on a detective sergeant, which means that the actions of those officers are under investigation.

“The serving of conduct notices does not necessarily mean disciplinary proceedings will follow.”

Levy, 40, of Tottenham, north London, was convicted by a jury at the Old Bailey on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months apart last year.

He was also convicted of two counts of rape and assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent, as well as non-fatal suffocation over a brutal sex attack in January 2025, which the victim survived.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC told jurors the crimes were a series of attacks committed by a “predatory serial sexual attacker in a similar way”.

Miss Valencia-Trujillo was found dead in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury Estate in south-east London on March 17 last year, while Miss Wilkins was discovered behind a car park wall on High Road, Tottenham, north London, on August 24.

The car park was also where Levy carried out the January rape, which left the victim unconscious with a broken collarbone.

Levy was brought into police custody for questioning on September 4 and charged soon after.

Jurors heard that Levy was already a registered sex offender. He sexually assaulted two women in 2018 and was jailed in 2021.

After he was released in 2023, he carried on preying on women, and earlier this year was convicted of 11 counts of sexual assault in a separate trial at Inner London Crown Court.

Ten of the victims were young women who were using the Tube and London Overground, and the 11th was a prison officer assaulted while he was previously behind bars in 2022.

An Old Bailey jury reached verdicts after deliberating for 13 hours.