Simon Levy was repeatedly set free on bail despite a growing number of attacks on women

Serial sex attacker Simon Levy has been sentenced to a whole-life prison term for murdering two women and raping a third.

The 40-year-old was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August that year.

He suffocated both women in sexually motivated attacks, with Ms Valencia-Trujillo found in a largely abandoned block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in south-east London, and Ms Wilkins behind a car park wall near Tottenham High Road, north London.

His spiral of offending escalated from sexual assaults on the Tube to double murder.

When he turned killer, Levy had already subjected a third woman to a brutal rape in the same car park where Ms Wilkins’ body was later found, and the surviving victim had told police where her attacker lived.

Levy was repeatedly set free on bail despite a growing number of attacks on women.

Judge Mark Lucraft KC, the Recorder of London, condemned him to spend the rest of his life in jail with no chance of ever being released.

The judge said: "You are clearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal sexual satisfaction."

Noting his disturbing internet history and collection of press cuttings about sexual crimes, he said Levy is "someone who appears to have a morbid fascination with sex, rape, and crime".

Levy’s victims branded him a "monster" and a "parasite" as he faced the sentencing hearing.

He targeted the woman knowing they were vulnerable as street sex workers with drug addictions, in what prosecutor Tom Little KC described as “predatory” attacks.

Levy was convicted earlier this year at Inner London Crown Court of 11 sexual assaults on London’s public transport network.

Appearing in court today, wearing sunglasses throughout the sentencing hearing, he appeared to smile as he entered the dock to be sentenced and he spoke only to confirm his name.

He looked on without displaying emotion as the surviving victim, as well as the murder victim’s family members, delivered their impact statements.

The surviving rape victim branded Levy a "monster”, and told the court she had become a drug addict and sex worker after being trafficked to the UK.

She had been attacked by Levy in a secluded area of a car park after he promised her money in exchange for sex.

She said: “He took away my soul that night and he took away my dignity."

The victim called the attack “worse than all the nights of being a victim of trafficking”.

She added: "This man is a parasite not worthy of any more of my words or time."

Ms Wilkins’ sister Lindsey Hicks tearfully addressed Levy directly, saying: “You, Simon Levy, have destroyed our lives and we will never ever get over this.”

Ms Valencia-Trujillo’s daughter, Nazly Johana Fuenmayor Valencia, called the murder “horrific”, and told the court: “There’s an emptiness that can’t be filled. Our world has been ripped apart, she was taken from our family and we will never be the same again.”

She paid tribute to her mother as a “beautiful woman both inside and out”, and added: “She came to this country to give her children a better life and for safety, and her life was taken so cruelly.”

Following the verdicts on Friday, the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and Crown Prosecution Service admitted failings in how they dealt with Levy, who was on bail as his attacks on women escalated to double murder.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had served a gross misconduct notice on a Met police constable and a misconduct notice on a detective sergeant.

Scotland Yard has also issued a plea for any more survivors of sex attacks by Levy to come forward to police.

Levy’s prolific sexual offending spanned the period between 2018 and 2025.

After the guilty verdicts, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth, from the Met Police, said: "There’s a collective system failure here, which has left Levy free to go on offending in this awful manner and left these victims at risk from his prolific offending, and that’s something which ourselves and colleagues across the criminal justice system will need to reflect on."