Police in London need to move away from criminalising women involved in street sex work in the wake of the disastrous murder case of Simon Levy, officers have told the BBC.

Levy, a convicted sex offender, was left to kill two women and rape another – all of whom were vulnerable and sometimes engaged in street sex work – due to a series of failings, including by the Metropolitan Police.

The BBC was given access to the Met’s new two-officer female team in north London, created in a bid to engage with street sex workers, improve trust, and encourage them to report crimes committed against them.

The team described hearing about endemic levels of male violence against the women they have met.

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More than 30 people have been killed after a school roof collapsed in Peshawar, Pakistan, with the majority thought to be children …

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Four people, including a teacher and children aged 5, 8 and 11, have been killed in a shooting at an elementary school in the US state of Oregon, local police say.

The suspected attacker, a 16-year-old boy, forced his way into the school by firing at locked doors. He was also killed in the shooting.

Emergency services in the city of Bend responded after receiving a call that an armed person had fired at a car before he was seen going into the Silver Rail Elementary School with a long gun.

The suspect was shot dead by an armed member of the community who followed the suspect inside the school, police say.

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Iran has increased attacks on shipping in the vital Strait of Hormuz, as it changes tactics to increase pressure on the United States.

Two ships are reported to have sunk within 24 hours.

Separately, the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen say they have attacked the headquarters of Saudi Arabia’s oil company, Aramco.

Severe food shortages have been reported in Yemen, by the UN, as the fighting continues to escalate.

And there are reports that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu discussed new joint strikes on Iran, although both have said they don’t favour any attacks before elections in their respective countries.

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Russian missile and drone strikes hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv and Kharkiv despite US President Donald Trump’s claim on Sunday that an “energy ceasefire” was in place. Ukraine says it received no warning from allies and was hampered by restrictions to the Starlink communications network during another night of intense attacks.

05:07 A Ukrainian man goes on trial over the 2022 Nord Stream pipeline bombing

07:27 China’s booming “loneliness economy” – the businesses keeping lonely people company

10:36 Former gang leader Duane “Keffe D” Davis is jailed for 40 years for orchestrating the murder of Tupac Shakur

12:50 Emperor penguins are fitted with trackers to help protect them from the impact of climate change

15:02 Divers and archaeologists find the world’s oldest shipwreck, from the Early Bronze Age, off Turkey’s coast

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