Behind a 2-metre wall topped with spikes, just 40 metres from Tottenham High Street, lies a stretch of concrete paving Simon Levy used as his personal killing ground. The spot, hidden from CCTV and overshadowed by Tottenham Hotspur’s stadium, became the site of two violent attacks in 2025—one fatal, the other nearly so.
Levy, 40, was convicted last week of murdering two women, Sheryl Wilkins and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, and raping a third. All three were sex workers. The survivor, a 35-year-old woman trafficked from Eastern Europe, told the Old Bailey how he broke her collarbone, raped her, and strangled her until she lost consciousness. When she awoke, she was bleeding and in pain. She later identified him in a police lineup.
The pattern of violence
Levy’s crimes didn’t begin in 2025. His history of sexual violence spans years, with convictions and allegations police and courts repeatedly failed to address.
In 2021, he received a prison sentence for assaulting a woman at a party in Camden and sexually assaulting another on her way to the Notting Hill Carnival. While serving time at HMP Brixton, he attacked a female prison officer. Searches of his devices revealed messages about his interest in her.
After his release in 2023, the assaults continued. In October 2023, he carried out an attack on a train, for which he was only identified later. In 2024, he allegedly raped a woman in Tottenham. He was recalled to prison to complete his 2021 sentence but was not charged over the rape.
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The survivor of his January 2025 attack reported him to police, but she couldn’t provide a full statement for six months due to drug withdrawal. By then, Wilkins was dead. Valencia-Trujillo was killed two months later.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC told the court Levy targeted sex workers because he assumed they wouldn’t be believed. Evidence including DNA, travel records, and CCTV tied him to the murders. After his arrest, he claimed an eye injury from a 2024 assault kept him indoors. Officers found his devices contained material about crime, violence, and sex.
The two women Levy murdered might still be alive if the system had functioned properly. Their deaths add to a long list of cases where warning signs were overlooked.
Offenders in the West Midlands have participated in cleanup efforts, but such measures do little to address systemic failures in violent crime prevention.
