Met police incapable of change, says mother of murdered sisters after Simon Levy case

Mina Smallman, whose daughters were killed in north London park in 2020, says force ‘decides who matters’ The Metropolitan police does not take all cases of violence against women seriously and “decides who matters”, the mother of two murdered women has said. Mina Smallman, whose daughters Bibaa Henry and Nicole Smallman were killed in a north London park in 2020, also said Britain’s biggest police force is incapable of change. Two police officers were jailed in 2021 after taking photographs of the dead bodies of her daughters and sharing the images in WhatsApp groups, referring to them as “dead birds”. Commenting on the case of the sex offender Simon Levy, 40, who was left free to kill two women after police failings, she said: “One of the woman that were murdered, because she was a sex worker, she wasn’t taken seriously. They didn’t look into her murder until he murdered a mother of four, and then they joined the two cases together. “How ridiculous is that.

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