Serial sex predator guilty of murdering two women and raping a third

An ‘evil’ predator who murdered two women and nearly killed a third amid a wider years-long spree of sex attacks faces dying behind bars.

Simon Levy, 40, killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year.

He smothered both women in sexually motivated attacks, with Ms Valencia-Trujillo found in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London, and Ms Wilkins behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road, north London.

Levy raped a third woman whose collarbone was broken during a brutal sex assault in January 2025, leaving her for dead in the same car park where Ms Wilkins’ body was later found.

Members of the victims’ families burst into tears as the verdict was delivered after the jury deliberated for 13 hours.

Levy, sporting a pointed beard and sunglasses, gave no reaction in court as he was convicted of all the charges against him.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC adjourned sentencing until Wednesday August 12 and remanded Levy into custody.

It can now be reported that a string of police and court blunders left Levy free to keep attacking women.

Levy was previously jailed in 2021 for groping two women in the summer of 2018, one at Notting Hill Carnival and the other at a party in Camden.

He sexually assaulted a prison guard while behind bars in 2022 but was still released the following year, going on to sexually assault a woman on the Tube in October 2023 and allegedly rape another in May 2024, for which he was recalled to prison and released again in August that year.

Levy was arrested by BTP in November 2024 for four sexual assaults on the Tube, for which he has since been separately convicted, but delays in organising an identification parade until the following April left him free to carry out the rape and first murder.

When they took details of his Oyster card, BTP officers did not realise that it had been stolen from a bus driver, meaning Levy had a free travel pass that he used on the day he murdered Ms Valencia-Trujillo.

Following her death, he was released on bail at two magistrates’ court hearings in May and June 2025, with the CPS admitting that it had not opposed bail at the first hearing, and the prosecutor had not given the court all the relevant information for consideration at the second hearing.

There were another three crown court hearings that he failed to attend for various reasons, yet no arrest warrant was requested.

Less than two weeks after a hearing on August 11, he murdered Ms Wilkins.

Levy carried out six sexual assaults on the Tube and Overground in between the murders of Ms Valencia-Trujillo and Ms Wilkins.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth said Ms Wilkins’ murder could have been prevented had he been kept in custody at one of those court appearances.

He said: ‘The obvious corollary, if he had been remanded at that point, is that he would not have been able to go on to commit, at the very least, the murder of Sheryl Wilkins.’

As a convicted sex offender, Levy was being monitored by the probation service and police but repeatedly lied to officers who visited him at the home he shared with his mother in March and July 2025, claiming he did not go out and watched YouTube and films instead.

He played on the fact he was partially sighted – Levy lost the sight in one eye in an attack in May 2024 – claiming that it made him unsteady on his feet.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC called Levy ‘a predatory serial sexual attacker’, who targeted the three vulnerable women, all of whom carried out street sex work in order to fund drug addictions.

All the women had drug addiction problems and the surviving victim, who gave key evidence in Levy’s trial, had been sleeping rough after being trafficked into the UK from abroad.

Jurors in Levy’s Old Bailey trial had viewed police body-worn video of officers speaking to the woman on the street after she had been seriously injured during the course of a brutal rape.

She begged to be taken to hospital for treatment for her broken collarbone but was instead taken into custody for breaching a community order on January 25.

Police were unable to follow up on her allegations until after the two murders, when she identified Levy in a line-up and told officers where he lived in Tottenham, north London.

Giving evidence in court, the woman described the ‘traumatising’ effect of being stopped by police and quizzed about her rape experience in the street on September 6.

Weeping, she described to jurors being pounced on and assaulted by Levy in the same car park where one of the murder victims was later found dead.

She told jurors: ‘I would not think this man would be so evil. I believe I’m going to die.’

Jurors were told that the woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, had since received help to find accommodation and treatment for her drug addiction problems.

Mr Southworth warned Police are facing a ‘vast and rising tide of sexual violence’ with the growing number of registered offenders putting strain on the criminal justice system.

He said the Met, Britain’s largest, has more than 10,000 registered sex offenders to monitor, a number that has grown by more than 1,000 in the past few years.

The double killer was never on the Met’s ‘V100 list’ of the most dangerous offenders to women and girls.

Mr Southworth said: ‘While we know now Levy is one of the most dangerous and prolific offenders we’ve encountered in recent times, if you go back to spring of last year, at that point, he was one of many people who was involved in sexual offenses and was on the registered sex offenders list, but not necessarily one that would have stood out from others at that time.’

The senior officer said Levy would only have come to notice as a particularly dangerous offender when his crimes escalated in 2025, even though he had been accused of rape and multiple sexual assaults in 2023 and 2024.

‘At that point, that offending alone wouldn’t necessarily in 2023 and 24 have stood him out from a vast number of other registered sex offenders and prolific offenders in our midst.

‘Sadly, because of the scale of what we’re dealing with, we face unfortunately a very vast and rising tide of sexual violence.

‘What has stood this man out to me now, and to us all, is the acceleration in his offending in this last nine months to 12 months of 2025.’

Two Metropolitan Police officers are under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct over how they dealt with Levy.

After the verdicts, crime and policing minister Sarah Jones said: ‘This was a horrifying case.

‘My thoughts are with the families of Carmenza Valencia Trujillo, Sheryl Wilkins and all those who suffered at the hands of Simon Levy. I also want to commend the survivor who bravely came forward and helped bring this monster to justice.

‘The fact that Levy was able to inflict such devastating harm after being freed by police and the courts is deeply concerning. It raises serious questions that require urgent answers.

‘It is right that the IOPC are investigating how this happened, in addition to internal reviews by the organisations involved. Any failures must be identified and must not be repeated.’

Lisa Ramsarran, chief crown prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said it had carried out a detailed review of their handling of the case.

‘We recognize the level of concern around this case and we have carried out a detailed review of our handling. We accept there was relevant information regarding bail that was not provided to the court, when bail applications were being considered.

‘Our actions fell short of the standards that victims, families and the public are entitled to expect.

‘In particular, there were points where we could and should have taken a more robust approach to representations about bail, based on the information available.

‘We cannot know what decisions the courts would have made had different or stronger representations been advanced.

‘But we recognize our responsibility and we are sorry for the shortcomings we have identified.’

British Transport Police Assistant Chief Constable Charlie Doyle said: ‘It is clear that opportunities to expedite the investigation were missed and we have amended our procedures to address these issues to ensure that repeat offenders are dealt with expeditiously, and that linked offenses are prioritised more effectively.

‘It is possible that there are other victims of Levy who have not yet reported what happened to them.

‘If you recognize Levy and believe you may have been a victim of his offending, I encourage you to come forward and report it to us by texting 61016.’

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