[6][7] On his release he became an unlicensed taxi driver, but then attacked another woman who was a passenger after locking the car's doors, although she managed to escape by smashing the windscreen.
[1] He would later be charged with attempting to rape and stab a sex worker in a hotel room, but she refused to give evidence at the trial and the case was dropped.
[1] Although a convicted rapist, he ran his own escort agency, hiring girls out at £250 a time for sexual services and profiting by taking a cut of their earnings.
[1] Smith was put on trial in 1993 for the murder of 33-year-old[6] sex worker Sarah Crump, who supplemented her income as a psychiatric nurse by working for an escort agency.
[1] Smith admitted paying Crump for sex on the night she died and said he engaged in sexual foreplay with her but denied being involved in her murder and claimed he left her unharmed.
[2] Later, in 2003, legislation was introduced under the Criminal Justice Act 2003 which amended the double jeopardy law, meaning suspects could be retried for a crime that they were previously acquitted of if 'new and compelling' evidence became available.
[7] On 25 April 1999 Smith raped, murdered and mutilated 21-year-old sex worker Amanda Walker after picking her up from Sussex Gardens in Paddington in the early hours.
[8][2][5] Earlier in the night he had attended an "adult" party and he claimed at trial that he left feeling "randy" and was "looking for a bit of fun" and so drove to Paddington red light district.
[2] He claimed his blood being found on Walker's clothes was the result of him tripping and hitting his face on the pavement after leaving the party earlier in the night, causing him to bleed on her when he met up with her.
[2] In his final remarks, the trial judge noted that Smith had shown no remorse, stating "you are extremely dangerous to women and clearly will remain so".
[2][1][12] In 2008, it was reported that police had taken moulds of Smith's unusually large size 14 feet to see if they matched footprints found at crime scenes of unsolved murders.
[14] The rules on double jeopardy were changed in Britain in 2005 after the Criminal Justice Act 2003 came into force, meaning that cleared suspects could now be tried again for the same crime if new evidence became available.
[5][11] In 2021 the Director of Public Prosecutions approved a police attempt to have Smith's acquittal for the murder of Crump quashed at the Court of Appeal so he could be re-tried.