Simon Levy, 40, has been sentenced to a whole life order at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft KC after being found guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later, as well as raping a third woman. The sentence means he will never be released.
Simon Levy given whole life sentence for murdering two women and raping a third
Simon Levy, 40, has been sentenced to a whole life order at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft KC after being found guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later, as well as raping a third woman. The sentence means he will never be released.
During his trial, the court heard that Levy suffocated both women in sexually motivated attacks. Valencia-Trujillo was found in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London; Wilkins was discovered behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road in north London.
The rape of a third woman occurred in the same Tottenham car park where Wilkins was later found dead. That victim had told police where Levy lived, but she was not formally interviewed until after Levy had killed.
At the time of the attacks, Levy was on bail and being monitored by the Metropolitan Police. The police watchdog is currently examining how he was managed over a four-year period, from his first conviction for sexual assault in September 2021 to his final arrest in September 2025.
Levy had a string of convictions for attacking women dating back to July 2018, including one against a prison officer in 2022. Earlier in 2025, he was also convicted of sexually assaulting 11 other women, 10 of them on trains and the London Underground between 2023 and 2025.
Levy declined to give evidence at trial and pleaded not guilty to the two murders, two counts of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
In sentencing, Lucraft noted Levy's internet history and collection of press cuttings about sexual crimes, and said the aggravating features of the case outweighed any mitigating factors, describing it as one that 'cannot be described in any way as a borderline case'. He said he was 'acutely aware that whole life terms are sentences that should be considered for rare cases' but concluded that the starting point in this instance had to be a whole life order.
Victim impact statements were read in court from the families of both murdered women and from the woman Levy raped. Sheryl Wilkins' sister, Lindsey Hicks, addressed Levy directly, saying he had 'destroyed our lives'. Wilkins' mother, Mary Wilkins, said she took a 'small measure of comfort' that Levy would never be free again.
Both the Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service had previously apologised over a series of decisions that left Levy free prior to his final arrest.
- The Crown Prosecution Service's response to Sir Mark Rowley's assertion that the CPS repeatedly bailed Levy despite police objections is not included in the source.
- The position or response of the courts regarding bail decisions is not represented in the source.
- The findings or interim conclusions of the police watchdog investigation are not reported.
- The victim impact statement from the woman Levy raped is not detailed beyond a mention that it was read in court.
- The specific 'disastrous decisions' cited in the police and CPS apology are not set out in this article.
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