Evening briefing Friday 7th August

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0:4940-year-old Simon Levy was able to commit his crimes after a series of failures by police and prosecutors. He was also convicted of 11 sexual assaults, 10 of which happened on the London Underground. Kevin Southworth is the Met's Deputy Assistant Commissioner. The Metropolitan Police has voluntarily referred itself to the Independent Officer Police Conduct, which is the independent watchdog that overviews any instances where we may have failed in our duty to protect the public. We've done so on the basis that we need to understand better what could have been done better, if at all, to offend and manage Simon Levy in such a way as we could have protected the public from the harm that he posed.

1:24The Chief Constable of Norfolk Police is warning anyone involved in anti-immigration disorder in Thetford that they face the full force of the law. A police officer's been bitten during the protest while a number of people have been arrested. Paul Sanford says he's worried about people being wrongly identified. One of my biggest concerns is how do these people know that the properties they are targeting are actually housing asylum seekers? They don't. They're making assumptions. They're acting on the basis of potential mistruths that they've heard online. and I'm worried that innocent people who have lived in Thetford for a long time may well have these people banging on their door next.

2:02The woman at the centre of one of the most famous murder cases of the last 20 years will perform a comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe tonight. The victim's family wants it cancelled. Amanda Knox, who was convicted and then acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kircher in Italy in 2007, will be performing a stand-up show about her life. Sally Allington is a Kircher family friend. She started a petition. I've actually filed a formal complaint to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. They have a Google's form that you can fill in. I'd written to them obviously already, but they had sort of washed their hands of it saying, we don't curate, we don't pick the artists, we just provide a platform.

2:40But if you do want to file a formal complaint, here's a Google form. So I have filled in that Google form saying I'm urging them to read every single one of the comments on the petition. And the Grammy Award winning record producer William Orbit has died at the age of 69. He worked with artists including Madonna, Prince, U2, Robbie Williams and All Saints. He produced Madonna's 1998 album Ray of Light and co-wrote and performed on her 1999 single Beautiful Stranger. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwC.

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