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A serial sex attacker has been found guilty of murdering two women and almost killing a third.
Simon Levy, 40, suffocated Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025, before using the same method to kill Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later while on bail.
He has also been found guilty of violently raping another woman in January last year, before leaving her for dead.
Detectives now believe Levy may have claimed scores of victims, carrying out daily attacks for years.
He had a shocking record for sexual violence. In February this year Levy was convicted of carrying out 11 sexual assaults between April 2022 and May 2025.
In total, he has now been convicted of carrying out two murders, two rapes, a near-fatal suffocation and 13 sexual assaults.
Now there are calls for a public inquiry into the scandal as campaigners say the case makes a mockery of police and CPS promises to tackle violence against women and girls in the wake of Sarah Everard’s murder by Scotland Yard officer Wayne Couzens.
And police believe there are many other women who have not yet come forward.
Police believe that Simon Levy, 40, could have been carrying out daily attacks for years
The body of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was found face down in a stairwell of a disused block of flats in Southwark, south-east London
Levy claimed his second murder victim smothering Sheryl Wilkins, leaving her body in a car park just minutes from his own home
Levy - pictured in the latest available police custody photo - murdered two women and attempted to kill a third
In a brutal attack on January 21, 2025, he jumped on a prostitute, breaking her collar bone before raping her. He suffocated the woman, leaving her near death, with one hand squeezing her neck, and the other covering her face with a finger down her throat.
On March 17 Levy struck again using the same tactic.
The body of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was found face down in a stairwell of a disused block of flats in Southwark, south-east London.
The 53-year-old drug user’s neck had been compressed, her face smothered and a pipe smeared with his blood was found beside her, the court heard.
Days before Levy was arrested on April 1 over the murder, he told police visiting his home as part of routine convicted sex offender checks that he never went out.
It was a blatant lie that a simple police computer check would have exposed.
Scotland Yard decided to release him on bail after the cause of Ms Valencia-Trujillo’s death was deemed to be ‘unascertained’ in a post-mortem examination.
On August 28, Levy claimed his second murder victim, smothering Sheryl Wilkins and leaving her body in the same location as the earlier rape attack, just minutes from his home.
Police arrested him on September 5 after he was identified at the scene on a facial recognition camera.
He was remanded in custody three days later.
Details of Levy's convictions earlier this year have been kept secret for fear of prejudicing his subsequent murder trial, which ended today.
Now furious women have hit out at the criminal justice system, asking: ‘Who is there to protect women and girls?’
The offender wearing glasses and a hoodie on Tottenham High Road in August last year. Ms Wilkins's body was found by officers on patrol approximately a day after this image was taken
A blue North Face jacket recovered from Levy's home matched the one he was wearing on CCTV
Levy, marked by the green arrow, pictured with Ms Wilkins
The Daily Mail can reveal that no officer has lost their job as a result of the blunders in the Levy case.
The Met has referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC).
Ahead of the verdict, Met Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth claimed that police were ‘quick’ to realise their errors, adding: ‘We're very quick to hold ourselves to account, quite rightly in the way the public would expect.
'So we've self-referred to the IOPC to answer those questions: What did our officers know, and what should they have done if they didn't do it?’
Describing him as ‘a prolific predatory monster’, he said: ‘The offending of Simon Levy is amongst the most harrowing we've seen in recent times… While there were multiple investigations, ultimately the collective system failure, and his bail reports, left him free to go on to offend in the most harrowing manner imaginable.’
He admitted that Levy didn’t ’stand out’ to police at the time from the 10,000 registered sex offenders in London.
The double killer, who also used the aliases Levi and Shamus, was never on the Met’s ‘V100 list’ of the most dangerous offenders to women and girls.
Mr Southworth said: ‘While we know now Levy is one of the most dangerous offenders we have encountered in recent times, by spring last year he was one of many people on the registered sex offenders list, but not necessarily one that would have stood out.’
The number of sex offenders being managed in the community grew by 1,000 in the last year alone.
Jurors were told that Levy was earlier this year convicted of 11 sexual assaults, carried out between April 2022 and May 2025
‘All of that adds up to one unfortunate, immutable truth, which is we have a very high number of sexually violent people, that is incredibly challenging to manage,' Mr Southworth admitted.
‘We face unfortunately a very vast and rising tide of sexual violence. What has stood this man out now to us all is the acceleration in his offending.’
Lisa Ramsarran, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the CPS, said: ‘There was relevant information that was not provided to the court when bail applications were being considered.
‘We cannot know what decisions the courts would have made had different or stronger representations been advanced. But we recognise our responsibility and we are sorry for the shortcomings.’
Harriet Wistrich, chief executive of from Centre for Women’s Justice, told the Daily Mail’s podcast: ‘It is a very, very shocking case in terms of the number of opportunities there were to have stopped him.
‘We end up with two women dead, two children who've lost their mother and families that have lost their loved ones as a consequence of failures.
‘After all the so-called lessons supposed to have been learned following the Worboys case, we were told that this would not be repeated.
‘Then obviously following some of the recent terrible cases involving police perpetrators like Couzens and Carrick. That still, this kind of level of routine failure at every stage, and not just the police, but the courts as well - it just very sadly inspires a complete lack of confidence in our criminal justice system.
‘At a time when women are rightly very concerned about the decision by the Government to early release serious sexual offenders, we are supposedly assured that they will be monitored tightly when they are released.
‘How can any of them have any confidence whatsoever that they will be safe?’
She warned that Levy was unlikely to be the only case where predators are slipping through the net, adding: ‘There must be an independent investigation, if not a public inquiry into this case because of the scale of the failures.
'Because these things just keep happening again and again. Something very radical has to change.’
Police chiefs fear that Labour’s soft justice reforms will make matters worse as forces are under pressure not to remand offenders in custody.
The National Police Chiefs Council has estimated that the Government’s sentencing reforms to jail fewer offenders by ditching shorter prison sentences and releasing inmates earlier will lead to a six per cent surge in crime.
Britain’s top officer Sir Mark Rowley recently warned: 'We’ve got extraordinarily prolific and dangerous offenders who there would not have been any doubt about, even a couple of years ago, we would have been remanding in custody.
‘They are now being bailed and repeatedly bailed, then repeat offending and that troubles us greatly.
‘The system across the country is struggling.’