Women on London's most dangerous sex offenders list

Telegraph

21-03-2025

A league table of London's most violent and dangerous sex offenders includes a small number of females, Scotland Yard has revealed.
The Met's cutting edge V100 programme uses an academic scale to identify and rank those who pose the highest risk to women and girls across the capital.
While almost all those identified are predatory males accused of multiple offences including rape, sexual assault, coercive control and domestic abuse, some violent women in same-sex relationships have also made the list.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ben Russell, who is in charge of the programme, said it was the gender of the victim that was important.
He said: 'Every woman and girl in London deserves to feel safe, whether walking home at night, travelling on public transport, at home or simply going about their daily lives. Yet far too many don't feel that way.
'We are relentlessly focused on those who pose the biggest threat, working hard to intervene before they strike again.'
Describing how the index works, he said: 'We look at all reports of violence against women and girls in a 365-day period. Where an individual has been accused of more than one crime in that period we score based on the severity of that offence.
'If you've been accused of a pretty serious crime that gets you a higher score. If you are in the top 100 every month you go into our process and we take as much action as we can.'
He said while the list was reviewed and updated regularly, one or two women, who were in abusive same-sex relationships, had been identified as posing a very serious risk to others and work was ongoing to bring them to justice.
Launched in the wake of the murder of Sarah Everard, the list has marked its 100th conviction.
But Scotland Yard bosses hope the approach to tackling violence against women and girls (Vawg) will result in many more offenders being brought to justice.
Seen, heard and protected
Mr Russell said: 'Reaching 100 convictions is an important milestone but our work is far from over. This is about ensuring that every woman in London feels seen, heard and protected.'
About 35,000 men are reported to Scotland Yard each year on suspicion of committing violent offences against women and girls.
However, the scale of offending often means it is difficult to focus resources in the right places to take perpetrators off the streets.
The V100 programme uses technology, intelligence and data to create a list of the most dangerous offenders.
Once they have a league table of people to target, detectives then apply the same techniques used in counter-terror policing to focus the most appropriate resources on arresting them and putting them before the courts.
A total of 126 people have so far been charged with 574 offences including rape, grievous bodily harm (GBH), non-fatal strangulation and attempted murder.
A further 155 arrests have been made for 1,246 offences including 42 for rape, 18 for GBH and 17 for non-fatal strangulation.
Among the early successes in the scheme was Adam Baillie, 39, who was jailed for life in February for the kidnap, false imprisonment and sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl.
Louis Collins, 30, was jailed for life for rape, kidnap and 22 other related offences after he attacked eight women over the space of four days in summer 2024.
Aaron Bennett, 36, of Hackney, east London was also flagged to the V100 programme after police became aware of persistently violent offending towards two women he was in a relationship with.
A right to feel safe
Detectives were able to compile sufficient evidence to secure charges including GBH, non-fatal strangulation and assault. Bennett was jailed for five and a half years.
Jess Phillips, the Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, said: 'Every woman has a fundamental right to feel safe. A hundred offenders convicted by the Met means 100 more dangerous men off our streets.
'Delivering a consistent national approach in the use of these data-driven tools to identify and pursue the most dangerous perpetrators is a core part of our mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade. We are cracking on alongside our policing partners to achieve this.'
Ada Ibezi, chairman of the Met Police's Independent Advisory Group on Vawg, said: 'I welcome the news that this initiative has, to date, taken over 100 dangerous offenders off the streets. This clearly highlights the work that the Met is doing to tackle violence against women and girls.
'For too long, perpetrators like these have preyed on women, some of whom are vulnerable with nowhere else to turn, believing they could act with impunity, moving from one victim to another.
'By using a data-driven, intelligence-led approach the Met is making policing more precise and effective, significantly increasing the likelihood of perpetrators being apprehended and successfully convicted.'