Simon Levy, 40, has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third, following a series of attacks that spanned several years. The verdict was delivered at the Old Bailey on August 7, 2026.
Murders and Attack
Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025, leaving her body in the stairwell of a derelict building in Peckham, southeast London. He was arrested and interviewed by police but released, and later murdered Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August 2025.
Months earlier, in January 2025, Levy raped another woman and left her for dead in the same B&M car park in Tottenham, north London, where Ms Wilkins' body would later be found.
Prosecution's Case
Tom Little KC, prosecuting, described Levy as 'a predatory serial sexual attacker'. The court heard that Levy was already a registered sex offender, having sexually assaulted two women in 2018 and being jailed in 2021. After his release in 2023, he continued offending.
Earlier this year, Levy was convicted of 11 counts of sexual assault in a separate trial at Inner London Crown Court. Ten of the victims were young women using the Tube and London Overground, and the 11th was a prison officer assaulted in 2022. The final six sexual assaults in that three-year spree took place between the murders of Ms Valencia-Trujillo and Ms Wilkins.
Trial Details
Levy was found guilty of two counts of murder, as well as charges of rape, GBH, and non-fatal strangulation. He had previously been found guilty of 11 counts of sexual assault in February this year, in addition to two similar convictions over attacks in 2018.
Jurors heard that Levy raped one woman in January last year, bearing down on her with all his weight so that her collarbone broke. He put his hand over her mouth and grabbed her throat, causing her to lose consciousness and fear she might die during the attack in a car park on Tottenham High Road.
Vulnerable Victims
Prosecutors said Levy's victims were 'each in their own way very vulnerable'. Mr Little said: '(This was) a series of attacks upon vulnerable women who either undertook sex work or who, by reason of drug addiction, would sometimes perform sexual services for money and/or drugs. Therefore, a series of attacks committed, we say, by the same predatory serial sexual attacker in a similar way.'
Four days after the attack on the surviving woman, she was arrested for breach of a community order while on her way to hospital for treatment for her collarbone injury. She told police she had been raped but was not well enough to be interviewed at the time because she was withdrawing from heroin.
Evidence and Defence
Ms Valencia-Trujillo was found in the stairwell of a large, mostly condemned block of flats on March 17. She was found lying face down with injuries to her face and no pulse, and her trousers were not fully pulled up. Levy had lived nearby for several months in 2023, and his blood was found on a pipe in the stairwell near where her body was found. Mr Little said: 'Something caused him to bleed at the very location where Carmenza was killed. That is, we say, no coincidence.' DNA from his semen was also found on her body.
Ms Wilkins was found dead behind a wall in the B&M car park on August 24, with a jacket placed over the top half of her body, including her head. Weeks later, the surviving rape victim made a video statement describing how she thought she was going to die. She said: 'I would not think this man would be so evil. I believe I'm going to die. I couldn't believe. I will never forget the smell of his hands, salty, smelly.'
Defence Arguments
Levy did not give evidence, but his barrister Siobhan Grey KC suggested neither death was a crime, citing toxicology evidence that could indicate drug-related causes. She accused the surviving woman of lying and said Levy admitted having 'consensual intercourse' with all three women but denied harming them. She said: 'We say to you that just because one man over a period of eight months had sexual intercourse with three sex workers does not mean that he has intended to harm them or kill them.'
The defence called forensic pathologist Dr Brett Lockyer, who had advised on television programmes such as Silent Witness. He agreed the cause of death was 'unascertained' for both women, which he said was relatively rare. He noted that injuries like petechial haemorrhaging, congestion of the face, froth in the airway, and neck injury can together 'build a picture' suggesting strangulation, but no fractures were found in Ms Valencia-Trujillo's neck.
Prosecution's Closing
Mr Little told jurors of Levy's decision not to give evidence: 'His total silence in this trial is proof positive that he is trying to hide the truth from you. His silence in this case is deafening.'
