Police and prosecution errors meant Simon Levy was free to rape and homicide two ladies
WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT Simon Levy was today found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering two women in 2025, with new evidence revealing police errors allowed him to be free to commit the crimes
Simon Levy was today found guilty of two murders(Image: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)
Errors left a prolific and proven sex offender Simon Levy free before he killed two women in London.
Levy, 40, was found guilty today (Friday, August 7) at the Old Bailey of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and Sherly Wilkins in August that year.
Months before the first killing, Levy was arrested for sexual assaults of women on trains. The Guardian reports that officers made errors that delayed Levy being charged.
Levy was known to police before the murders
Levy carried out further attacks while on bail and – although charged with most of the offences – remained free, going on to commit his second murder.
Police have admitted they bungled efforts to have Levy remanded in custody. Three court hearings were held where prosecutors were unable to provide crucial information which demonstrated the extent of danger he posed to women. BBC reports that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) also acted too slowly..
Levy was known to police and prosecutors before he embarked on a path of grim violence. He was first jailed for a sexual offence in 2021 and while in prison he sexually assaulted a female prison officer.
After his release he carried out a series of sexual assaults on trains across London between 2023 and 2025, while also being the prime suspect in a rape investigation.
Levy at Highbury Magistrates’ Court(Image: PA)
Today, Levy was also convicted of two counts of rape, assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (GBH) with intent and non-fatal suffocation over a brutal sex attack in January 2025, which the victim survived.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told jurors the crimes were a series of attacks committed by a “predatory serial sexual attacker in a similar way”.
Miss Valencia-Trujillo was found dead in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury Estate in south east London in March last year, while Miss Wilkins was discovered behind a car park wall in Tottenham, north London in August.
The car park was also where Levy carried out the January rape, which left the unnamed victim unconscious with a broken collarbone.
