Jurors were told that the woman Levy allegedly raped was left “as good as for dead”
Emily Pennink and Margaret Davis Press Association
12:58, 29 Jun 2026Updated 13:22, 29 Jun 2026
Court artist sketch of Simon Levy, 40(Image: Elizabeth Cook/PA Wire)
A “predatory serial sexual predator” raped one woman before killing two more in an eight-month period last year, a jury has heard. Prosecutor Tom Little KC told the Old Bailey that Simon Levy, 40, from Tottenham, North London, committed “a series of predatory sexual attacks in the first eight months of 2025 on three women, each in their own way very vulnerable”.
He said that the women had all done sex work for money or drugs, telling the court: “It is why and how the defendant encountered them and it is also a reason why he attacked them, no doubt hoping and thinking that he would get away with it.”
Levy is accused of raping one woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in January 2025, as well as assault occasioning grievous bodily harm (GBH) and non-fatal suffocation. It is also alleged that he murdered Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March that year before killing Sheryl Wilkins five months later in August.
Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, died in the Aylesbury Estate, south-east London, on March 17(Image: Metropolitan Police/PA)
Ms Valencia-Trujillo, 53, was found dead in a largely disused block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in Southwark, south-east London, on March 17 last year. Ms Wilkins, 39, was found by police collapsed near High Road, Tottenham, at 6.30am on August 24 last year, in the same car park where the January rape allegedly took place.
Mr Little said it was: “A series of attacks upon vulnerable women who either undertook sex work or who by reason of drug addiction would sometimes perform sexual services for money and/or drugs. Therefore, a series of attacks committed we say by the same predatory serial sexual attacker in a similar way.”
Prosecutors alleged that both the murders were sexually motivated, and that while sexual activity with the women may have started out being consensual, it did not stay that way.
Levy, of Beaufoy Road, Tottenham, north London, has pleaded not guilty to the two women’s murders. He has further denied two charges of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
Jurors were told that the woman Levy allegedly raped was left “as good as for dead” after Levy jumped on her with all his weight, breaking her collarbone, and raped her while covering her face and grabbing at her throat.
Four days after the alleged attack she was arrested for breach of a community order while on her way to hospital for treatment for the injury to her collarbone.
She told police that she had been raped, but was not well enough to be interviewed at the time because she was withdrawing from heroin.
In September that year the woman was interviewed and described how she thought she was going to die during the alleged raped as she could not breathe and lost consciousness.
The Old Bailey was told that the physical description she gave and details of the address where the man lived matched Levy, and that she had picked him out in an identification parade.
In police interview he claimed that the sex was consensual and denied having hurt her.
Ms Valencia-Trujillo was found in the stairwell of a large, mostly condemned block of flats, Wendover House, on March 17 last year.
She was found lying face down in a landing area, with injuries to her face and no pulse, and her trousers were not fully pulled up, the court heard.
Levy had lived nearby for a number of months in 2023 and prosecutors claim this means he would have known the area. His blood was found on a pipe in the stairwell area near where her body was found, the court heard.
Mr Little said: “Something caused him to bleed at the very location where Carmenza was killed. That is, we say, no coincidence.”
DNA from his semen was also found on her body, the jury was told.
In police interview he claimed that the sex was consensual and denied having hurt her. The trial is being heard before Judge Mark Lucraft KC.
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