Double murder accused is sex offender, jury told

Little said the woman was "left unconscious and left for dead having been assaulted, raped and notably strangled". He said that, during the attack, the woman "thought she was going to die". Jurors were told Levy allegedly jumped on the woman with all his weight, breaking her collarbone, before raping her while covering her face and grabbing her throat. Four days after the alleged attack she was arrested for breach of a community order while on her way to hospital for treatment for the injury to her collarbone. She told police that she had been raped, but was not well enough to be interviewed at the time because she was withdrawing from heroin. In September 2025 the woman was interviewed and described how she thought she was going to die during the alleged raped as she could not breathe and lost consciousness. The Old Bailey was told that the physical description she gave and details of the address where the man lived matched Levy, and that she had picked him out in an identification parade. Levy's defence lawyer, Siobhan Grey, told the court that the alleged rape victim "is not telling the truth about the alleged attack and that her credibility, reliability and honesty are called into question". Grey said the woman had picked out the defendant in an identification parade because she had known the defendant for years and not because he attacked her. …