Simon Levy has been found guilty of murdering two women and sexually assaulting a third, who escaped the violent attack with a broken collarbone.
Levy, 40, was found guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March last year, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August last year.
He killed both of the vulnerable women in the middle of sexual encounters in secluded areas of London.
Ms Valencia-Trujillo was found in the stairwell of Wendover House, a block of flats in Southwark, south-east London, on March 17 last year.
Ms Wilkins was found dead four months later in a car park in Tottenham on August 24.
Levy was also found guilty of carrying out a violent sex attack against a third woman in the same Tottenham car park in January last year.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, survived the attack but suffered a broken collarbone.
In a majority verdict, the jury found him guilty of all six counts he faced.
After the verdict was announced, Crime and Policing Minister Sarah Jones praised the victim who came forward but said: “The fact that Levy was able to inflict such devastating harm after being freed by police and the courts is deeply concerning. It raises serious questions that require urgent answers.”
Detective Chief Inspector Neil John, from Scotland Yard, said outside court: “Simon Levy is a dangerous and predatory offender. His crimes were calculated, cruel and deeply disturbing.
“Throughout the trial, he has shown complete disregard for the victims and victim-survivor, despite being fully aware of the lasting and devastating impact of his actions.”
The Met Police have been criticised for how they handled the investigation into Levy.
Jurors were shown police body-worn footage of the woman who survived the rape in 2025 telling officers where she had been attacked and asking for hospital treatment.
She was instead taken into custody for breaching a community order on January 25.
Police were unable to follow up on her allegations until after the two murders, when she identified Levy in a line-up and told officers where he lived in Tottenham.
Police said they had struggled to speak to her because she gave the wrong date at one point, there was a lack of CCTV at the site, and she was not easily contactable because she was homeless.
Levy’s crime spree spanned from 2018 to 2025.
He sexually assaulted two women in 2018 and a prison guard while he was behind bars in 2022.
After his release, he groped a woman on the Tube in October 2023, and allegedly raped another in May 2024, for which he was recalled to prison and released again in August that year.
In November 2024 he was arrested for four sexual assaults on the Tube, for which he has since been separately convicted, but delays in organising an identification parade left him free to carry out the rape and first murder.
He then sexually assaulted six more women on the Tube – one in March, three in April and two in May 2025, before he murdered Sheryl Wilkins in August last year.
Jurors saw through his claims that all the contact had somehow been accidental on wobbly or crowded trains after he became partially sighted in May 2024.
Levy’s sinister tactic was to tie a jumper or hoodie around his waist, strapping his arm down, and then backing towards his victim with his hand fully or partially covered.
Levy, from Tottenham, declined to give evidence in his defence but pleaded not guilty to the two women’s murders.
He further denied two charges of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
During the trial, prosecutors alleged Levy lived in “a world of sex offending, a world of rape, strangulation, suffocation, violence and also dishonesty”.
Jurors were shown a document entitled “sex” was located on Levy’s computer containing a web address which included “search” and “gang raped” in its URL.
The website linked to a pornographic website that featured “rape” in its title.
The court was told there was no record of Levy accessing the website using the computer or any of the devices seized from him.
Other folders relating to sports including mixed martial arts and tennis were also found on his computer.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC said a document found on Levy’s computer entitled “my sex record” revealed his “attitude to women”.
Little also said Levy’s decision not to give evidence in the case was “proof positive that he is trying to hide the truth from you, his silence in this case is deafening”.
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