A jury at the Old Bailey has found 40-year-old Simon Levy guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London. Levy, a registered sex offender who was under Metropolitan Police monitoring at the time of the offenses, killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins in August 2025. The jury also convicted him of raping a third woman in January 2025 in the same Tottenham car park where Wilkins was later discovered dead.
The Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP), and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have acknowledged failings in their management of Levy, who was on bail as his offenses escalated. Although Levy's DNA was found on Valencia-Trujillo's body following her death in March 2025, the Met initially declined to pursue a murder investigation. The department only began investigating her death as a homicide after the murder of Wilkins five months later. The Met stated to the BBC that Wilkins' death could have been avoided if not for multiple procedural failures.
Levy, who did not testify during the trial, had a history of sexual offenses dating back to 2018. In a separate trial in February 2026, he was convicted of sexually assaulting 10 women on London's rail network and a prison officer at HMP Brixton. The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) is now investigating how Levy was managed from 2021 through 2025, specifically examining whether the decision to downgrade his status from a high-risk to a medium-risk offender in August 2024 contributed to the subsequent attacks.
For residents and commuters in London, the scale of the case involves at least 13 reported victims across a four-year period, including 10 women assaulted on public transport. The CPS acknowledged that Levy was granted bail for these transport-related offenses despite his history, a decision that led to the murders of Valencia-Trujillo and Wilkins. The BTP has already moved two officers from their roles for "incompetence," and the CPS stated it would implement new training and oversight measures to address how bail and risk assessments are handled in serious sexual offense cases.
The immediate impact of the verdict is the removal of a repeat offender from the public, but the long-term effects involve a national-level review of how police and the courts coordinate monitoring. The IOPC investigation will determine if systemic changes are required to prevent similar lapses in information sharing between agencies like the BTP and the Met. Levy is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Mark Lucraft KC on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, where he faces mandatory life terms for the double murder convictions.
In February 2026, Levy was convicted of 11 counts of indecent assault and was sentenced to six years in prison with an additional three-year license period. The details of that trial remained restricted until the conclusion of the double murder case. British Transport Police Assistant Chief Constable Charlie Doyle stated that the agency has since amended its procedures to ensure repeat offenders are identified more quickly, though he noted that other unidentified victims may still exist.