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Man murdered two London women in predatory sexual attacks, court told
A court artist’s sketch of Simon Levy during a magistrates court appearance last September. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA View image in fullscreen A court artist’s sketch of Simon Levy during a magistrates court appearance last September. Photograph: Elizabeth Cook/PA Man murdered two London women in predatory sexual attacks, court told Trial begins of Simon Levy, who denies killing Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins and attacking third woman A man murdered two women and left a third for dead in a series of predatory sexual attacks over an eight-month period, a jury has been told. Simon Levy, 40, denies killing Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, on 17 March 2025 in south-east London and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, on 24 August 2025 in Tottenham, north London. He also denies attacking a third women, aged 35 at the time, on 21 January 2025, also in Tottenham. Opening the prosecution case at the Old Bailey in central London, Tom Little KC told the jury that Levy carried out a “series of predatory sexual attacks in the first eight months of 2025 on three very vulnerable women”. The women were sex workers or sometimes performed sexual acts in return for money or drugs, the jury was told. Little said the women’s vulnerability led Levy to believe he would get away with his crimes. “It is why and how the defendant encountered them and it is also a reason why he attacked them, no doubt hoping and thinking that he would get away with it,” he said. View image in fullscreen Sheryl Wilkins. Photograph: Metropolitan police/PA Little said the first attack, where the victim survived, and the third attack seven months later were in the same car park in Tottenham. He said CCTV from August 2025 showed Levy walking with Wilkins to the car park and disappearing behind a wall. “Nobody else went behind the wall,” Little told the jury. “Nobody could have killed her other than the defendant.” Wilkins’ body was found on Tottenham High Road at 6.30am on 24 August. The jury was told that DNA evidence tied Levy to the killing of Valencia-Trujillo and that the killing was sexually motivated. View image in fullscreen Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo. Photograph: Family handout/PA Valencia-Trujillo was vulnerable and living in south-east London, the court was told. Her body was found in a stairwell of Wendover House, a largely condemned block of flats in Walworth. The jury heard that the first victim, who survived and cannot be named for legal reasons, had been trafficked into the UK. At the time of the attack she was a sex worker in the Tottenham and Edmonton area. Little told the court: “The first of the woman encountered by the defendant in time was not killed but instead was left unconscious and left for dead having been assaulted, raped and notably strangled.” Little told the jury that in the car park the woman asked for payment and Levy said he would take her for a drink and dinner. He said Levy then attacked her, jumping on her with such force that her clavicle was broken
