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Serial sex offender Simon Levy - who killed two women and raped a third while on bail for other offences - is being sentenced at the Old Bailey today
Levy was found guilty last week of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins in 2025, as well as the violent rape of a third woman
Levy is a registered sex offender and was being monitored by police at the time of the attacks
His offending dates back years - he was reported to Metropolitan Police for a sexual assault in 2017
He then assaulted two women in 2018, at Notting Hill carnival and a party in Camden, but wasn't convicted for those offences until 2021
After being released from prison - where he sexually assaulted a female officer - he went on to commit other assaults, including on the Tube, before the 2025 murders
There was a series of disastrous decisions by the authorities, writes our correspondent Daniel De Simone in court
The court will hear statements from the victims' families, before the sentencing itself begins - you'll be able to watch the judge live on this page
Elliot Burrin
Reporting from court
Simon Levy is wearing sunglasses and a grey prison tracksuit.
He is looking straight ahead, and occasionally glances around the courtroom.
Eight members of the jury have also been seated, who have come to watch the sentencing.
Elliot Burrin
Reporting from court
The defendant, Simon Levy, is now sitting in the dock and proceedings are about to begin.
We will first hear from the prosecution and defence for their final remarks, before the sentencing itself starts at 12:00 BST.
Journalists are packed into the court room - the clerk has brought extra seats for everyone - as well as barristers, solicitors and legal staff. Seats reserved for members of the public are also full.
Some members of the jury have also returned for the sentencing.
The Met Police is not alone in admitting failings for the handling of Simon Levy.
British Transport Police (BTP)'s investigation into Levy's sexual assaults was beset by delays, meaning he was not charged for more than six months, despite being filmed carrying out an attack.
Det Ch Supt Pete Fulton, from the BTP, said the delay "absolutely wasn't good enough" and was down to "incompetence" by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.
Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has also been accused of acting too slowly.
Lisa Ramsarran, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, said: "Our actions fell short of the standards that victims, families and the public are entitled to expect.
"In particular, there were points where we could and should have taken a more robust approach to representations about bail, based on the information available."
The Metropolitan Police's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Kevin Southworth has previously admitted a "collective system failure" over Levy.
The Met Police was responsible for his monitoring, which encompassed police officers visiting his home and collecting intelligence on him.
Just months before he committed the first offences in this series of convictions, the force had downgraded his status from high-risk to medium-risk.
Two officers from the Met are now facing investigations from the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) relating to alleged failures in their management of Levy, following a voluntary referral from the force.
A police constable is under a gross misconduct investigation and a detective sergeant a misconduct investigation - with the watchdog’s investigation spanning the time from Levy’s first conviction in September 2021 through to his arrest in September 2025.
Watch: How Simon Levy assaulted women on the Tube and was eventually arrested for murder
Simon Levy attacked the three women in 2025 while on bail for sex assaults on trains in London. He was being monitored and risk-managed by the Met Police throughout.
Elliot Burrin
Reporting from court
I've just arrived at the Old Bailey, where members of the press are slowly gathering outside.
There's going to be a large media presence at the sentencing today.
The court session is due to start at 11:00 BST, with final remarks from the prosecution and defence, which our reporters will bring you from inside the chamber.
The sentencing itself starts at 12:00 BST - you will be able to watch that part live on this page.
Image source, Metropolitan PoliceSheryl Wilkins and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo were both murdered by Levy
Simon Levy, a 40-year-old from Tottenham, was found guilty last week of the murders of two vulnerable women and the rape of a third.
In January 2025, Levy raped a women in a Tottenham car park. He forced her to the ground and jumped on her, breaking her collarbone and banging her head against the ground before suffocating and raping her.
Within days, she was arrested for breaching a community protection notice preventing her from being in the area.
She told police what happened but they closed the investigation in the summer, having made limited attempts to speak to her further.
In May 2025, Levy murdered Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in derelict flats in south London, leaving her on the stairwell.
He was arrested weeks later after his DNA was found at the scene, before being released under investigation. The case was not passed to the Met’s homicide command.
In August 2025, Levy murdered Sheryl Wilkins, 39,in the same Tottenham car park he committed the rape in, eight months earlier.
During the trial, the court heard the three women all carried out street sex work in order to fund drug addictions.
Daniel De Simone
Investigations correspondent, reporting from court
Simon Levy was a registered sex offender, who was being monitored by the Met Police when he murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted 10 others on public transport.
That such a man was able to harm so many women is down to police, prosecutors and the courts making a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.
On Friday, at the Old Bailey, he was found guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year - and also the violent rape of another woman in a Tottenham car park.
A police watchdog investigation is underway into the Met’s handling of Levy, and British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have also accepted serious failings.
Today is about Levy being sentenced, and the court may also hear impact statements from the families of Carmenza and Sheryl, and the surviving rape victim.
Cachella Smith
Reporting from the Old Bailey
Image source, Metropolitan PoliceSerial sex offender Simon Levy is due to be sentenced at the Old Bailey today, after being found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third.
A known sex offender, Levy was being monitored and risk-managed by police when he killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.
The two murders followed the rape of a third woman in January 2025. Levy denied the charges but was found guilty on all counts last week.
He committed the crimes while on bail following arrests for other assaults - and had previously served time in prison for sexual assaults.
Although Levy was being monitored by the police, the force had downgraded him from a high-risk sex offender to a medium-risk one.
The Met, British Transport Police and Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have all admitted failings in how they dealt with him. There's an overview of the case in our scrolling graphic below.
I’ll be in court when the sentencing hearing begins later - and we'll bring you the latest news and analysis here as it happens.
