DOUBLE MURDER ACCUSED IS SEX OFFENDER, JURY TOLD
A man accused of killing two women in London and sexually assaulting a third is identified as a repeat sex offender, the Old Bailey has been told.Simon Levy, 40, of Tottenham in north London, stands accused of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, aged 54, and Sheryl Wilkins, age 39, as well as raping and assaulting a third woman—charges which he denies.
During the first day of his trial on Monday, the court was informed that Levy had been convicted of approximately 13 sexual assaults occurring since July 2018.
It was also revealed that Levy was arrested in April 2025 concerning the first homicide, prior to allegedly committing the second murder in August 2025.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC stated that Levy had previously been convicted in September 2021 of sexual assault committed in July 2018 and sexual assault by penetration in August 2018, following a trial.
He further explained that in February of this year, Levy was found guilty of eleven sexual assaults on different women, committed between April 2022 and May 2025.
Six of these offences took place in the first five months of 2025, overlapping with the incidents involved in this trial.
"This series of offences, including sexual touching and non-consensual activity, highlights his attitude towards women," Little remarked.
He also emphasized that the three victims connected to this case were sex workers or women who sometimes performed sexual acts for money or drugs.
"That is no coincidence.
It explains how Levy came into contact with them and why he attacked them, likely believing he could get away with it," the prosecutor added.
Little alleged both murders had a sexual motivation, asserting that initial consensual activity may have turned non-consensual.
He described the surviving victim as trafficked into the UK, raped twice by Levy in January 2025 in a Tottenham car park near Levy’s residence.
The woman was left unconscious and purportedly thought she would die, having been assaulted, raped, and strangled.
During the attack, Levy is accused of pinning her down with all his weight, breaking her collarbone, and raping her while covering her face and choking her.
Four days post-attack, she was arrested for breaching a community order en route to hospital for her broken collarbone.
She told police she had been raped but was too unwell for an interview at that time due to heroin withdrawal.
In a September interview, she recounted feeling she was going to die during the assault as she struggled to breathe and lost consciousness.
The court was told that her description and the address she provided matched Levy, whom she identified in a police lineup.
Levy’s defense attorney, Siobhan Grey, challenged her credibility, claiming she was not truthful about the attack and had identified Levy because of her prior acquaintance with him, not because he was responsible.
The first victim, Valencia-Trujillo, was discovered dead in a stairwell of a vacant building in Walworth, south London, on March 17, 2025.
Prosecutor Little mentioned that Levy had visited the area the day before her death and had previously resided nearby.
DNA evidence was recovered from the crime scene and Valencia-Trujillo’s body linking Levy to the murder.
The cause of her death was undetermined, with her autopsy showing no natural diseases but noting her long-term cocaine use.
Levy also met the third victim, Wilkins, in Tottenham in August 2025.
Prosecutors said they spent a significant amount of time in the same car park where the previous woman was assaulted, raped, and strangled seven months earlier.
CCTV footage showed Levy and Wilkins entering the car park at 00:57 BST, allegedly going behind a wall where the surviving victim was assaulted.
No other individuals were seen behind that wall until Wilkins' body was discovered the next morning.
Levy was captured leaving the scene at 01:52, crossing a main road by the store, and Wilkins was found dead at 06:30 by police patrols.
An autopsy revealed 83 injuries on Wilkins’ body, some evidently inflicted during the night in question.
A blue North Face jacket, recovered from Levy’s home, matched the one seen on CCTV and contained blood matching Wilkins’ DNA and semen matching Levy’s DNA on Wilkins’ underpants.
Levy initially claimed that he had consensual sex with Wilkins, asserting she had pre-existing bruises when she approached him and that he left her conscious and awake, denying any suffocation or assault.
Prosecutor Little dismissed Levy’s statement as false, citing CCTV footage and injury evidence to contradict his account.
The trial is ongoing.
