One-eyed sex attacker Simon Levy raped woman before killing two others after 'blunder'

Simon Levy, 40, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering two women and raping a third after a string of blunders by the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and the courts

Abigail Hunt Content Editor

11:30, 12 Aug 2026Updated 12:41, 12 Aug 2026

Simon Levy sentenced to whole life order for murder and sexual assault

A serial sex offender who murdered two women and raped a third after being allowed to roam free has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Simon Levy, 40, took the lives of grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year, as his pattern of offending escalated from sexual assaults on the Tube to double murder.

He suffocated both women in sexually motivated attacks, with Ms Valencia-Trujillo discovered in a largely deserted block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London, and Ms Wilkins behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road, north London.

[One-eyed rapist Simon Levy]

One-eyed rapist Simon Levy(Image: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)

By the time he became a murderer, Levy had already subjected a third woman to a brutal rape in the same car park where Ms Wilkins' body was later found, and the surviving victim had informed police about her attacker's residence.

However, she was not formally interviewed until after Levy had committed two murders, in a series of justice system failures that resulted in Levy being repeatedly released on bail despite an increasing number of attacks on women.

At the Old Bailey on Wednesday, Levy was handed a whole life prison sentence by Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, condemning him to spend the remainder of his life behind bars with no possibility of release.

[Sheryl Wilkins was tragically killed]

Sheryl Wilkins was tragically killed(Image: Metropolitan Police/PA Wire)

Levy was sentenced to a life sentence with a whole-life tariff for the two murders. He was handed two further life sentences, with minimum terms of 12 years, for the two rapes, to be served alongside the whole-life orders.

The judge said the GBH offence warranted a four-year jail term, and it would have been a two-and-a-half year term for intentional smothering. However, he imposed no separate penalty for those crimes because the actions had been taken into account when deciding the sentences for the rapes.

Levy displayed no emotion as he was led away from the dock flanked by prison guards. "You are clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction," said the judge.

[Ms Valencia-Trujillo was found in a largely abandoned block of flats]

Ms Valencia-Trujillo was found in a largely abandoned block of flats(Image: PA)

Highlighting his alarming internet search history and collection of newspaper clippings about sexual crimes, it was stated that Levy is "someone who appears to have a morbid fascination with sex, rape, and crime".

Levy's victims labelled him a "monster" and a "parasite" during the sentencing hearing.

Following a trial which concluded last week, Levy was found guilty by a jury of two counts of murder, two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent and the non-fatal smothering of the rape victim.

[Levy has been handed a whole life order]

Levy has been handed a whole life order(Image: Metropolitan Police)

As a convicted sex offender, Levy was being supervised by the probation service and police.

However, he repeatedly deceived officers who visited him at the home he shared with his mother, insisting he did not go out and watched YouTube and films instead.

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Following the guilty verdicts, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth, from the Met Police, stated: "There's a collective system failure here, which has left Levy free to go on offending in this awful manner and left these victims at risk from his prolific offending, and that's something which ourselves and colleagues across the criminal justice system will need to reflect on."

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