London serial sexual predator convicted of two murders

A serial sexual predator has been found guilty of murdering two women and violently assaulting a third in London, following a trial that exposed multiple failures by police and prosecutors that left him free to kill. Simon Levy, 40, was convicted at the Old Bailey on Friday, August 7, 2026, of the murders of Carmenza Valencia Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, as well as charges of assault, grievous bodily harm, and non-fatal strangulation related to a third victim.

The jury found that Levy, a previously convicted sex offender, killed both women in sexually motivated attacks during 2025. Valencia Trujillo was found dead in the stairwell of a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in southeast London on March 17, 2025. Wilkins was discovered behind a wall in a car park on Tottenham High Road in north London on August 24, 2025. The same car park was the location where, months earlier in January 2025, Levy had raped a woman, breaking her collarbone during the attack and leaving her unconscious.

Prosecutor Tom Little KC described Levy as a "predatory serial sexual attacker" who targeted vulnerable women involved in sex work to fund drug addictions. While Levy...