Questions have also been raised about how Michael Clark came to be living next-door-but-one to Polish teenager Zuzanna Zommer before he killed her in her own home in Compton Row, in the Harehills area of the city, last year.

Clark was given a life sentence for murdering Zuzanna at Sheffield Crown Court on Friday.

A jury heard how Clark had befriended her family who were completely unaware he was a rapist with a string of convictions for sexual violence, that he was on the sex offenders' register and that he had been released from prison less than a year before.

It emerged that when Clark was released from his last prison sentence in 2006 it was decided he was too dangerous to return to the area where he had committed his previous offences, thought to be Scunthorpe, North Lincs. Clark then decided to move to Leeds.

According to Leeds city councillor Les Carter, the local authority was legally bound to house him despite misgivings.

He was then found a place in Compton Row with a private landlord.

According to councillor Carter, who is the executive member for neighbourhoods and housing for the council, Clark was placed in the highest possible category of risk within the MAPPA (Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangements).

MAPPA are the way in which police, prisons and probations services work jointly to manage and monitor sex and violent offenders in the community along with a host of other agencies.

Councillor Carter said: "The council are required to obey the law and unfortunately in this case we had to house this evil man. It is important that a review now takes place examining if the protection arrangements were robust in all ways and any failures should be made public if we are to ensure no other child or adult is murdered in this way."



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