Simon Levy has been found guilty of killing two women and committing numerous sexual offenes in London. The 40-year-old was apprehended in November 2024 after a string of attacks on the city's transport network.
Four bail releases and a delayed identity check
The conviction of Simon Levy exposes a series of catastrophic failures across the British Transport Police (BTP), the Metropolitan Police, and the Crown Prosecution Service. According to the report, Levy was released on bail four separate times,which allowed him to continue stalking women across London's transport infrastructure despite being a known danger.
The failures extended into the immediate aftermath of his later crimes. The report says that a BTP officer delayed performing basic identity checks for several weeks, choosing instead to extend the bail of Simon Levy. This administrative lapse occurred while the offender was potentially continuing a campaign of violence that had already escalated from groping to murder.
The jumper trick in London's crowded Tube carriages
Simon Levy utilized the high density of London's Underground during peak hours to trap and assault his victims. To avoid detection, Levy frequently tied a jumper around his waist, a tactic used to conceal his hand while he assaulted women in crowded carriages.
This pattern of behavior eventually led to his November 2024 arrest over two separate Tube attacks. In one of these instances, a victim was able to record the assault on her phone, providing critical evidence that linked Simon Levy to the crimes .
The B&M car park and the murder of Sheryl Wilkins
The brutality of Simon Levy's crimes is highlighted by the murder of 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins in August 2024. cCTV footage presented at The Old Bailey showed Levy leading Miss Wilkins, a sex worker, into a service yard off the B&M car park on Tottenham High Road, where he smothered her in a sexually motivated attack.
The location of the murder was not a random choice; the court heard that Simon Levy had violently raped another woman at that same B&M car park location eight months prior. This repetition suggests a predatory comfort with specific sites of violence in the Tottenham area.
A record of violence dating back to 2018
The crimes committed by Simon Levy were not isolated incidents but part of a trajectory of violence starting in 2018. He had previously been jailed for three years in 2021 following sexual attacks on two women at a Camden street party and the Notting Hill Carnival.
Despite this history, Simon Levy was released halfway through his sentence in February 2023. This release allowed him to resume his predatory behavior, eventually leading to the suffocation of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and the later murder of Sheryl Wilkins. the case has sparked demands from campaigners for a public inquiry into how the justice system failed to protect women and girls from a rpeeat offender.
The number of unidentified victims from a years-long campaign
One of the most disturbing aspects of the Simon Levy case is the possibility that many more women were targeted than those officially named in the convictions... The report suggests that Levy may have claimed "scores of victims" during his years of offending.
Because the source focuses on the convictions of two murders, two rapes, and 13 sexual assaults, it remains unclear exactly how many other women were assaulted on the Tube without reporting it or being linked to Levy. The full scale of his victim count remains an open question that a public inquiry would need to address.
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