A SERIAL sexual predator has been found guilty of murdering two sex workers months after raping a third.
“Sexually motivated” , 40, began his in January last year when he strangled a woman unconscious before raping her in a car park.
Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was discovered dead in a block of flats Credit: PA
Simon Levy began his sick spree in January 2025, the court heard Credit: Central News
The court was told he could have been carrying out daily attacks for years, with dozens more victims out there. The Met Police has referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct.
Jurors were told the first woman was left “as good as dead” after Levy, from Tottenham, London, jumped on her with all his weight – breaking her collarbone.
Two months later, he killed Carmenza Valencia Trujillo, 54, before dumping her body in the stairwell of a derelict building in Peckham, South East London.
The “salsa dance loving grandmother” was found unresponsive at a property on the Aylesbury Estate on March 17.
Emergency crews rushed to respond and tried desperately to save Carmenza’s life.
Tragically, despite the best efforts of medics, she was pronounced dead at the scene, and her cause of death remains a mystery.
Levy was arrested on suspicion of murder on April 1 and released on bail.
Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found unresponsive in High Road, Tottenham Credit: PA
Levy’s crimes were sexually motivated, the court heard Credit: PA
He had lived nearby for a number of months in 2023 and would have known the area, the court heard.
His blood was found on a pipe in the stairwell area near where her body was found and his was discovered on the body, jurors were told.
A third victim, Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found dead near a B&M store in Tottenham, North London, on August 24.
She was found in the same car park where the January rape took place. Sheryl tragically couldn’t be saved and was declared dead at the scene.
Levy was detained for her murder and re-arrested in connection with Carmenza’s death.
Prosecutor Tom Little KC previously said both killings were sexually motivated, and that while sexual activity with the women may have started out being consensual, it did not stay that way.
He added: “What is this case that you are now trying all about?
“It involves, we say, a series of predatory sexual attacks from the first eight months of 2025 on three women, each in their own way very vulnerable.
“We say there was one attacker, the defendant.
“Apart from being attacked by the defendant, all three had something else in common. Not in an identical sense, each was either a sex worker or on occasions would perform sexual services in return for money or
“That’s no coincidence in this case. That’s why and how the defendant encountered them. That’s also why we suggest he attacked them, no doubt hoping and thinking he could get away with it.”
Four days after the woman was raped in January, she was arrested for breach of a community order while on her way to hospital for treatment for the injury to her collarbone.
The woman told police she had been raped but was not well enough to be interviewed at the time because she was withdrawing from heroin.
But in September that year, she told officers how she was attacked and gave a physical description of Levy.
She later picked him out of a identity parade and he was arrested.
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