Serial Sex Offender Convicted of Double Murder and Rape in London
Simon Levy, a 40-year-old registered sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police, has been convicted of murdering two women and raping a third in London.
Levy was found guilty at the Old Bailey of killing Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later. The jury also convicted him of raping another woman in January 2025 in the same Tottenham parking lot where Wilkins's body was later found.
The case has exposed serious failures in the way police handled one of their own registered offenders. Levy had a string of convictions for attacks on women dating back to July 2018, including a 2022 assault on a prison officer. In February, he was separately convicted of sexually assaulting 10 women on London's transport network and a female prison officer at HMP Brixton, though those details were only made public after the murder trial.
He also faced charges related to the surviving victim: two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and declined to give evidence. After 13 hours of deliberation, with a majority direction, the jury returned guilty verdicts on every count.
Prosecutors said Levy targeted vulnerable women engaged in sex work on the streets of London. The court heard his pattern of violence escalated despite being under police supervision.
The Metropolitan Police has acknowledged that the case was marked by missed opportunities. The force told the BBC it believed Wilkins's death could have been avoided had there not been multiple points of failure. It also failed to treat Valencia-Trujillo's death as a murder, even though Levy was arrested shortly afterward; the death was only reclassified after Levy killed again.
Two Met officers are under investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct for their decision in August 2024 to downgrade Levy from a high-risk to a medium-risk sex offender. Two British Transport Police officers have been moved to other roles after their force found "incompetence" in the handling of the case.
Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones said the case raised urgent questions. "The fact that Levy was able to inflict such devastating harm after being freed by police and the courts is deeply concerning," she said. "It raises serious questions that require urgent answers." She said the failures must be identified so they are not repeated.
The verdicts are likely to deepen public concern about the management of sex offenders in the community, particularly when victims are among the most marginalized. The case also raises questions about how risk is assessed — and who is held accountable when that assessment goes wrong.