Zuzanna Zommer was killed in her family home in Leeds just five weeks after her family moved to England in 2007.
The perpetrator, 40 year-old Michael Clark, was a registered sex offender with a significant history of sexual violence, who was living two doors away from the family.
Between the age of 20 and 40 he had been sentenced to a total of 22 years in custody for offences including the serious assault of a woman and sexual offences against children, having being caught masturbating outside a children’s play area.
Clark was released from prison 11 months before murdering Zuzanna. But Humberside Police failed to warn public protection agencies in Leeds that he was planning to move to the city until the day before he arrived, so professionals had insufficient time to come up with a "risk management plan".
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