Double killer Simon Levy was ordered to serve a whole life sentence today as a victim’s mother said her daughter had lost her life to save countless women from a monster.
The 40-year-old sexual predator who murdered two women, raped and almost killed a third while he was on bail for multiple sex attacks, will now die behind bars.
In a series of blunders by police and prosecutors, Levy was left free to kill Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, Sheryl Wilkins, 39, and rape a third woman last year after being repeatedly released on bail.
Levy had been preying on women for years, committing at least 13 sexual assaults between 2018 and 2025, but police, prosecutors and magistrates failed to remand him in custody even when he was under investigation for murder.
Now campaigners have called for the Metropolitan Police to be disbanded saying the case shows that the ‘criminal justice system is in a state of collapse’.
Today the mother of his final murder victim said Sheryl’s death in August last year had saved countless lives as it forced police to act.
In a victim impact statement, Mary Wilkins told the partially blind killer: ‘Simon Levy, you have completely destroyed our lives.
‘You have done this before and wouldn’t have stopped.
‘Our Sheryl has ended your chances of hurting anyone else, she lost her life to do this, but we truly believe Sheryl has saved countless women from being subjected to your disgusting and horrendous acts.
‘Predatory monster’ Simon Levy will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced today
An artist’s impression of Levy appearing at the Old Bailey, London, today
Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Levy on August 28, 2025. The killer left her body in the same location as an earlier rape attack, just minutes from his own home
‘I hope you never walk the streets again as you are a threat to all women.’
Sheryl’s sister Lindsey Hicks wept at the Old Bailey as she told him: ‘I hope you rot in prison for the rest of your life.’
Detectives believe Levy may have been carrying out daily attacks for years, escalating from groping women on the London Underground to rape, suffocation and eventually murder.
Although he had a shocking record for sexual violence dating back to 2018, British Transport Police (BTP), the Metropolitan Police and magistrates all failed to appreciate the danger he posed, releasing Levy on bail four times leaving him free to daily stalk the transport network claiming countless victims.
While on bail he carried out at least six sexual assaults on the tube, Levy raped and suffocated a sex worker leaving her for dead in January last year before going on to commit two murders months later.
Today the surviving rape victim described Levy as a ‘monster’ saying: ‘He took away my soul that night and he took away my dignity. He took my soul like a parasite to make him feel strong and make me feel weak.
‘That night was worse than all the hell of trafficking.’
The woman who was sex trafficked into the UK in 2012 said police had made her feel ‘like a child’ when she reported the attack, adding: ‘No one ever listened to me.’
She said: ‘This monster chooses girls he thinks won’t go to the police.’
Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was found face down in a stairwell of a disused block of flats in Southwark, south east London
Detective Chief Inspector Neil John spoke outside the Old Bailey after Levy was found guilty
Earlier, Levy, who wore sunglasses throughout the sentencing hearing, smiled as he entered the dock to be sentenced.
Judge Mark Lucraft, said the double killer had a ‘morbid fascination with sex, rape and crime’ adding: ‘You are clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction.’
Levy showed no emotion as he was sentenced.
One family member shouted ‘Yes’ as the judge handed Levy a whole life sentence.
The partially blind offender was first jailed for three years in 2021 for sex attacks on two women at Notting Hill Carnival and a Camden street party in 2018.
In jail he groped a prison officer in 2022.
When he was released in February 2023, Levy ventured on the tube for prey, roaming stations across London at peak times when he knew carriages would be packed.
Travelling free on the tube with an Oyster card stolen from a bus driver, Levy tied a jumper around his waist to hide his wandering hand as he grabbed the women around him.
Levy was supposed to be supervised by both probation and police.
But his chilling fascination with rape and murder went unnoticed as the pervert secretly amassed a huge collection of newspaper stories about notorious offenders he lionised like black cab rapist John Worboys, paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, and Harvey Weinstein.
Levy was arrested in November 2024 for two sex attacks on the tube, but a BTP officer delayed doing basic ID checks for weeks, opting instead to extend his bail on January 21, 2025.
Emboldened, that night Levy rape and almost killed a prostitute, breaking her collar bone before raping her while he suffocated her with one hand squeezing her neck and another covering her face with a finger down her throat, leaving her near death.
On March 17 he killed Ms Valencia-Trujillo using the same tactic, compressing her neck and smothering her face.
A photo taken of Levy during one of his Tube attacks – he carried out at least six sexual assaults while on bail
He was arrested days later but was released him bail after the cause of the 53-year-old drug user’s death was deemed to be ‘unascertained’ in a postmortem.
Levy accelerated his offending, carrying out four further attacks on the underground.
On May 2, he was charged with five sex assaults on the tube, but he was released on bail by magistrates even though he was also suspected of murder.
Levy failed to show up at court when he was charged with a sixth sex assault charge on June 3, but officers failed to issue a warrant.
Three weeks later he was spotted on the underground by a BTP officer and charged with breaching his bail condition by going on the tube, failing to appear at court and committing two sex attacks.
Incredibly when he appeared at court, Levy was granted bail again.
He failed to attend further hearings on July 18 and August 11, yet no warrant was sought for his arrest.
On August 28, Levy killed Ms Wilkins using the same method leaving her body in the same location as the rape attack, just minutes from his own home.
Police arrested him on September 5 after he was identified at the scene on a facial recognition camera.
In February this year Levy was convicted of carrying out 11 sexual assaults between April 2022 and May 2025.
Harriet Wistrich, CEO of the Centre for Women’s Justice said: ‘The catalogue of combined failures in this case provides terrifying evidence – if it was needed – that our criminal justice system is in a state of collapse.
‘Given the series of catastrophic failures by the Met Police on top of an appalling history of police failures including those involved in the Worboys case to the more recent scandals in relation to police perpetrators, Wayne Couzens, David Carrick and others, we must conclude that the Met Police is not fit for purpose.
‘We must have an independent inquiry.
She added: ‘It is time to disband the Met Police and restructure and repurpose policing so that it can effectively tackle male violence and some semblance of trust and confidence can be restored.’
Commissioner Mark Rowley said the force had apologised, but described the case as a ‘whole system failing’.
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