Serial sex offender and convicted double murderer, Simon Levy, has been sentenced to a whole-life tariff in England, United Kingdom, after being convicted of murdering two women and raping another, meaning he will never be released from prison.
Levy, 40, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday after being found guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later.
He was also convicted of raping and attacking a 35-year-old woman in January 2025.
The Tottenham resident was on bail as a suspect in Valencia-Trujillo’s murder when he killed Wilkins, after police said they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.
Before the killings, Levy already had an extensive history of sexual offending and was on the sex offenders’ register after being jailed in 2021 for two sexual assaults.
Sentencing him, Recorder of London Mark Lucraft KC said Levy had “ruthlessly exploited and took advantage of each of these three women”, adding that the aggravating factors significantly outweighed any mitigating factors.
The judge imposed a whole-life order for the two murders, alongside two further life sentences with minimum terms of 12 years for the rapes, to be served alongside the whole-life orders.
Lucraft described Levy as someone who “ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction”, adding that he appeared to have a “morbid fascination with sex, rape and crime.”
The court heard that months before the first killing, British Transport Police arrested Levy over sexual assaults against women on trains.
However, errors by police and prosecutors delayed his charging and left him free.
While on bail, he carried out 10 further attacks across London.
Although he was charged with most of the offences, he remained at liberty and went on to commit his second murder.
Levy murdered Valencia-Trujillo in a partly disused tower block on March 17, 2025.
He later killed Wilkins in a Tottenham car park on August 24, 2025.
The third victim, a 35-year-old woman who survived, was raped, beaten and suffocated in January 2025.
She was attacked in the same Tottenham car park, eight minutes’ walk from the home Levy shared with his mother and sister.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told the court that Levy’s offending was so serious that it warranted a whole-life tariff, noting that sexual violence was “inextricably interwoven with the killing” of both victims.
Wilkins’ mother, Mary, said in her victim impact statement, “I hope you never walk the streets again as you are a threat to all women.”
Her sister, Lindsey Hicks, said: “You, Simon Levy, have destroyed our lives. Sheryl was a beautiful soul … The pain you have put her through is unbearable.”
The surviving victim told the court she was a “mum and a classical pianist”.
She said Levy’s attack had taken away her “soul and dignity” and described him as a “monster” and a “parasite”.
Nazly Johana Fuenmayor Valencia, the daughter of Carmenza, said her mother had many responsibilities and was the “pillar” of her family.
The Crown Prosecution Service, Metropolitan Police and British Transport Police have admitted making errors in their handling of Levy’s cases.
Prosecutors acknowledged that they bungled efforts to have Levy remanded in custody following the first murder and after he was charged over the train attacks.
They failed to provide key information at three court hearings showing the full extent of the danger he posed to women.
Levy’s risk assessment was downgraded by the Metropolitan Police from high to medium in August 2024.
Despite the series of train attacks and his arrest for murder, the assessment was not upgraded.
Two Metropolitan Police officers are under investigation by the police watchdog over alleged failings.
Earlier this year, Levy was sentenced to six years in prison for the train attacks and for sexually assaulting a prison officer during an earlier period of imprisonment.
With the whole-life order imposed, Levy will remain in prison for the rest of his life.
