London\u2019s Metropolitan Police<\/a> said \u200bLevy was released because they were then unable to confirm any third-party involvement in Valencia-Trujillo\u2019s death.<\/p>\nIts chief, Mark Rowley, told reporters the force \u201ccould have done better, definitely,\u201d but added that \u201cthe justice system needs to do its job better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Levy\u2019s crimes and the failures by police \u200band prosecutors that allowed him to continue offending have prompted criticism, coming after\u00a0a report\u00a0in December said British \u200bpolice must ensure early intervention in cases of predatory behavior.<\/p>\n
Harriet Wistrich, CEO of the Centre for Women\u2019s Justice, said: \u201cThe catalogue of combined \u200cfailures \u2060in this case provides terrifying evidence \u2026 that our criminal justice system is in a state of collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n
London mayor calls for review<\/p>\n
A screengrab taken from body-worn video issued by the Metropolitan Police shows the arrest of Simon Levy in London, UK, on Aug. 7, 2026. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
A CCTV screengrab issued on Aug. 7, 2026, shows Sheryl Wilkins, marked by a blue arrow, being trailed by Simon Levy, marked by a green arrow, in Tottenham, north London. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
Judge Mark Lucraft said Levy was \u201cclearly someone who ruthlessly exploits others for your own personal, sexual satisfaction\u201d as he sentenced him to a whole-life order for the murders of Valencia-Trujillo and Wilkins.<\/p>\n
He was also sentenced for two counts \u200bof rape, causing grievous bodily \u200bharm with intent and \u2060intentional strangulation in relation to a third woman.<\/p>\n
Levy was separately convicted in February of sexually assaulting 10 women on London trains between October 2023 and May 2025, with six \u200bof the attacks in early 2025, and an 11th charge of sexually assaulting a \u200bprison officer \u2060in April 2022.<\/p>\n
He was arrested in 2024 and early 2025 by British Transport Police, including after he was a suspect for rape and Valencia-Trujillo\u2019s murder, but was granted bail.<\/p>\n
Judge Mark Lucraft is seen in a screen grab at the Old Bailey sentencing serial sex attacker Simon Levy to a whole-life order on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026, in London, UK. ZUMAPRESS.com<\/p>\n
The Met has referred itself to the police watchdog for downgrading him \u2060to a \u200bmedium-risk offender in 2024, while BTP and the Crown Prosecution Service have \u200balso admitted some failures.<\/p>\n
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said in a statement that he was \u201cappalled by his crimes and the failures across multiple agencies,\u201d \u200bcalling for a multi-agency review to try and stop it from happening again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 A British serial sex attacker will spend the rest of his \u200clife in jail, a judge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[102,2383,4697,16032,14027,27360,5287,27361,1259,95,394],"class_list":["post-69678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-london","tag-murders","tag-rape","tag-sex-offenders","tag-sexual-assaults","tag-sexual-predators","tag-united-kingdom","tag-valencia","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}