Image source, Met PoliceLevy was found guilty of murdering Sheryl Wilkins (l), 39, and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 54
ByDaniel De Simone, Investigations correspondent, Reporting fromOld Bailey, London and Amy Clarke, Reporting fromLondon
A serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London.
Simon Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.
The 40-year-old also raped a third woman in January 2025 in the same Tottenham car park where Wilkins was later found dead.
During his trial at the Old Bailey, jurors heard Levy had been convicted of several sexual assaults dating back to July 2018, including one carried out against a prison officer in 2022.
The court heard how Levy, from Tottenham, targeted vulnerable women in secluded areas of London.
He declined to give evidence during his trial but pleaded not guilty to the two murders, as well as two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
The jury, which was given a majority direction in the trial, found him guilty of all charges after 13 hours of deliberation.
The Metropolitan Police confirmed to the BBC that it believed Wilkins’ death could have been avoided had there not been multiple points of failure in the handling of Levy.
The Met failed to treat Valencia-Trujillo’s death as a murder, despite arresting Levy soon afterwards, until after Levy killed again.
In February, Levy was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 women on London’s Tubes and trains, as well as a female prison officer in HMP Brixton, with details of that trial now reportable for the first time.