Black Sex Predator Allowed to Operate with Impunity

Simon Levy was freed early from jail, repeatedly granted bail and allowed to miss court dates; this enabled him to stalk the Tube sexually assaulting victims with impunity before murdering two women.

On August 7^th 2026, Simon Levy stood in the dock at the Old Bailey in London, the jury had returned from their deliberations and The Recorder of London, Judge Mark Lucraft KC directed the foreman to stand up and deliver the verdicts: Levy was found guilty on all counts. Simon Levy’s trial had begun on Monday, June 22^nd 2026 and had lasted 6 weeks and 4 days, with the jury taking 13 hours to deliberate over the evidence presented during the trial. After 46 days in court, Levy was found guilty of murdering 53-year-old Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and of murdering 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins in August of the same year. Levy was also found guilty of raping a third woman who survived the attack – she cannot be named publicly and has been referred to in court simply as a “victim-survivor”. Levy brutally assaulted his surviving victim, suffocating her and breaking her collarbone and leaving her for dead, as such he was also found guilty of the charge of Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH) with intent.

This should be the end of the matter – a vicious murderer and rapist found guilty in a court of law, but following the guilty verdict, a wealth of information flooded out detailing how authorities had effectively given Levy a free pass to commit these horrific offences. It soon emerged that this was not the first time Simon Levy had been found guilty of serious sexual offences against women. Levy was revealed to be a prolific and violent sex offender who was first convicted of two serious sexual offences on September 30^th 2021 at Southwark Crown Court. These two offences took place in 2018 – in July of that year Levy sexually assaulted a woman at a party in Camden Market by forcing his hand down her trousers, and a month later, in August, he assaulted a second woman by penetration after meeting her on her way to the Notting Hill Carnival. A judge – whose name is being withheld from the public – sentenced Levy to just three years in prison and placed him on the sex offenders register.

Despite the gravity of the conviction, Simon Levy would initially serve just one year and five months of his sentence before being released on licence. But rather than deterring Levy, the early release from his first stint in prison seemed to embolden him and he would go on to commit dozens of sexual offences before eventually committing murder. However, it was not just the courts and the probation services which failed the public; the Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police and the Crown Prosecution Service all failed to act. Eventually, it would be revealed that Levy had in fact been committing sexual offences in London since 2017, yet in a series of what the press has described as “multiple systemic failures and distinct missed opportunities”, Levy was allowed to remain completely unmonitored, the police downgraded his ‘risk rating’ from high-risk to medium-risk and Levy was even allowed to skip court dates and when he did so, the police refused to issue warrants for his arrest. This is the story of a prolific sex offender that the establishment let walk free.

But who is this monster who stalked the streets of London and preyed on those using the London Underground? Simon Levy is 40 years of age and of African descent; he was born in Britain and grew up in North London. He lived with his mother at a home on Beaufoy Road in Tottenham and was described as a jobless loner by the press, with neighbours stating that he was reclusive and distant. But behind closed doors, the quiet loner had a dark and troubling obsession – inside his wardrobe and bedroom cupboards he kept multiple plastic bags which were tightly stuffed with old newspaper clippings about rape, sexual abuse, and murder. In addition, a digital analysis of his computer revealed that he had spent years obsessively researching high-profile serial sex offenders, including John Worboys (the “Black Cab Rapist”) and Christopher Halliwell. Finally, his computer contained meticulous personal logs of his sick activities, obsessions and fantasies, with police discovering folders titled: “my sex record” and “my favourite sex positions”.

Police recovered almost 165,000 files from Levy’s personal computer, and the folder titled: “my sex record” provided a wealth of information to investigators. This master folder contained a complex mix of spreadsheets, text logs, and media files. In a number of structured spreadsheets Levy meticulously logged personal data, including his sexual preferences, making it clear to investigators that his entire life was centred around his depraved obsessions. The folder also included separate text files where Levy noted down his tracking of high-profile real-world predators, alongside timelines of his own movements. It was as if Levy hero-worshipped high-profile rapists and was trying to emulate them, recording his movements as a way of going back and reliving his experiences. The folder contained a digital hoard of screenshots, copied news articles, links and files detailing cases of rape, sexual assault, and murder. This was a crucial window into the mind of Levy.

Levy was clearly a very dangerous man – obsessed with rape and driven by sick fantasies and obsessions. But he was also a man who the police and the courts appeared to be desperate to give another chance, and what’s more, authorities were always quick to give him the benefit of the doubt. Appallingly, he was sentenced to just three years in jail for two serious sexual assaults, being released early after just one year and five months. But this early release was later revealed to be even more outrageous due to the fact that Levy had sexually assaulted a prison officer whilst incarcerated. In April 2022 when Levy was being held at HMP Brixton in South London, he grabbed a prison officer’s backside as he passed her on a stairwell. The female prison officer reported the sexual assault to authorities the exact same day it occurred, but despite the prompt report and the fact that the entire incident was caught on CCTV, the Metropolitan Police failed to interview Levy about the assault for nearly a year, only questioning him five months after he was initially released on licence in February 2023.

Following his delayed police interview, the investigation was allowed to lapse. The Crown Prosecution Service did not formally charge Levy for the prison officer assault until October 2025 – long after he had used his freedom to murder two women and rape a third. The Crown Prosecution Service was later forced to admit that they had all the necessary evidence to authorise the charge at the beginning of 2025, which would have put Levy back behind bars before his first murder took place. Sadly though, this was just one of many missed opportunities. When Levy was released on licence after being jailed for the first time he was officially classified as a “high-risk sex offender” and as such, he was meant to be actively managed and monitored under strict multi-agency rules involving both the Metropolitan Police and the Probation Service. However, in May 2024, whilst out on licence, the Metropolitan Police received a fresh complaint accusing Levy of raping a woman in South London. It was during this period that Levy was targeted and viciously beaten in a vigilante revenge attack, resulting in the permanent loss of sight in his right eye.

Following this new allegation of a serious sexual offence Levy’s probation was immediately revoked and he was recalled to prison. However, whilst Levy was back behind bars, the investigation into the May 2024 rape allegation stalled, and the police ultimately closed the case, citing an insufficient amount of evidence to secure a formal charge. Despite being recalled to prison in May, just months later in August 2024, Levy reached the end of his original three-year sentence. Because he had served his full time and was not facing active, formal charges for the new allegation, the prison system had no legal grounds to hold him any longer, and he was again released. Upon his August release, the Metropolitan Police took sole responsibility for his risk management, however, they immediately downgraded him from a “high-risk” to a “medium-risk” sex offender. This decision was made because of the fact that he had been partially blinded in the May 2024 vigilante attack, causing officers to rationalise that his physical disability made him “less of a threat” and less likely to successfully offend. This downgrade reduced police surveillance on him, allowing him to launch a relentless string of at least 11 sexual assaults on the London Underground and commit two murders.

Emboldened by the way the criminal justice system was treating him, Simon Levy began reoffending almost immediately after his release in August 2024. On October 21^st 2024, Levy resumed his campaign of violence on the London Underground by grabbing a woman’s bottom on the Central Line. Appalled by what had just happened, the victim began to film him in order to capture his face, however Levy was undeterred, and he immediately groped a second, unidentified woman before slipping away into the crowd of commuters. Just seven days later, on October 28^th 2024, Levy assaulted another woman by touching her thigh, again, the attack took place on the Central Line. Then on November 4^th 2024, Levy was arrested by the British Transport Police after being spotted on the London Underground by a dedicated transport policing unit. Levy was intercepted thanks to the mobile phone footage captured by the victim of the attack that took place on October 21^st, however sadly, this would be yet another missed opportunity to stop him.

Upon his arrest, Levy was taken directly to a designated London police custody suite to be officially processed before being formally interviewed under caution by British Transport Police detectives. During the questioning, officers presented him with the allegations regarding the three separate groping incidents that took place on the London Underground in October. Confronted with the evidence, Levy flatly denied all three offences, playing up his partial blindness and claiming that any physical contact on the crowded, rush-hour trains was completely accidental. Levy claimed that the partial blindness had left him with ‘stability issues’, causing him to lose his balance and as a result, he often bumped into people when he was steadying himself. Despite the fact that Levy was a convicted sex offender who was actively on the sex offenders’ register, British Transport Police officers declared they did not have enough immediate evidence to secure a formal charge from the Crown Prosecution Service and he was released on standard police bail – giving him free rein to carry on offending.

Due to the fact that the Metropolitan Police had downgraded Levy’s threat level from “high-risk” to “medium-risk” just two months earlier in August 2024, the British Transport Police custody team assessed him as a low-level nuisance offender. As a result of this catastrophic mischaracterisation, the British Transport Police did not even formally approach the Crown Prosecution Service to request charges for an entire six months after this November arrest. But this wasn’t the end of the British Transport Police’s blunders; when officers arrested Levy, they confiscated his personal belongings, and amongst them was a stolen Transport for London Oyster card belonging to a bus operator and was clearly marked with the word “staff”. This card allowed the holder free use of the London Underground system, allowing them access to the entire transport network without restriction. Officers logged the card’s details into their custody system, but completely failed to notice that it was a stolen photocard featuring another man’s name and face, as a result, the card was handed back to Levy when he was released on bail, allowing him continued free and unrestricted use of the London Underground.

Then, on January 21^st 2025, Simon Levy would drastically escalate his level of violence, brutally attacking a vulnerable street sex worker who had been trafficked to the UK. As he initially approached her, the sex worker recognised Levy from a brief encounter that she had with him years prior, immediately noticing his dark prescription sunglasses. She suggested they go to the service yard of the local B&M supermarket car park on Tottenham High Road, an area known locally for drug use and sex work. Once in the car park, Levy launched a vicious and unprovoked attack, jumping on her with his entire body weight and breaking her collarbone. Levy then began smothering her face and pushing his fingers down her throat in an attempt to choke her. As the assault continued, he told her: “shut up, I got you,” and then proceeded to rape her twice. Following the brutal attack and rape, Levy strangled and suffocated the woman until she lost consciousness. Believing that she was dead, Levy left the scene, but unknowingly, he had walked away leaving another victim who could identify him. When the lady finally regained consciousness, she got to her feet and struggled to make her way out of the car park, begging passers-by for help, but nobody stopped and she was left to hobble home alone.

The victim did not initially report the attack to police, and in fact, despite the broken collarbone, she attempted to carry on working. As a result, on January 25^th 2025 she was arrested by the police for breaching a local Community Protection Notice that banned her from being in that specific Tottenham area. Whilst in custody, she reported the attack and told officers exactly what had happened to her. Despite the victim providing a highly accurate physical description of Levy and giving police his exact home address near White Hart Lane, police instead processed her as a criminal for breaching her community order. The victim was also actively suffering from heroin withdrawal at the time of her arrest and had struggled to engage with officers, as a result she muddled up several dates. Due to this minor discrepancy the police made almost no attempt to follow up the crime report with her and completely closed the rape investigation by the summer of 2025 – claiming there was no CCTV near the car park, an assertion that would later be brought into question. As a result, Simon Levy was never questioned or arrested for this attack at the time, and seven months later he would be back in that very same car park looking for another victim.

Then, on March 16^th 2025 another attack took place; Simon Levy again escalated his level of violence and committed his first murder. Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo whose body was later discovered in a stairwell of a block of flats situated in the Aylesbury Estate in Walworth. Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was a 53-year-old vulnerable woman originally from Colombia; at the time of her murder, she was struggling with drug addiction and had been engaging in street sex work to fund her habit. On the Sunday evening when she was murdered, Simon Levy met her in South London and arranged for a paid sexual encounter. Levy walked with her for a short time before he led her into Wendover House – a block of derelict flats. Once inside the isolated, abandoned building, Levy violently turned on her, brutally beating and suffocating her to death. The following morning, Monday, March 17^th 2025, emergency services responded to reports of an unresponsive woman in the stairwell of the flats and Carmenza was officially pronounced dead at the scene.

As the police began investigating the death of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, Simon Levy went back to his usual routine on the London Underground. On March 27^th 2025, just 11 days after the murder of Carmenza, Simon Levy boarded a busy Victoria Line Underground train. During the journey, he targeted a female passenger, subjecting her to a continuous assault where he touched and groped her bottom throughout the journey as the train travelled between Seven Sisters and Oxford Circus stations. The victim immediately reported the attack to the British Transport Police and investigators identified Levy as the suspect, but for unexplained reasons, despite planning to arrest him, they delayed taking any action. What’s more, the day after this assault, on March 28^th 2025, a probation officer conducted a routine home visit at Levy’s mother’s house in Tottenham. At this point, Levy was still on bail for the sexual assaults that took place in October 2024, however he weaponised his partial blindness and claimed he “rarely went outside” and spent his days entirely at home watching films and YouTube videos. The probation officer left his home satisfied that he was not a threat.

Then, on April 1^st 2025, the local police arrested Simon Levy at his home on Beaufoy Road in Tottenham for the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, immediately taking him into police custody to be interviewed under caution. On the night of her murder, CCTV cameras had captured footage of Carmenza walking down a southeast London Road before capturing Levy on film trailing closely behind her. But this wasn’t the only evidence linking Levy to the crime: mobile phone records placed his device in the immediate vicinity of Wendover House at 6:39 PM on the night of the murder, placing him at the scene at the estimated time of her death. What’s more, a police forensics team found Levy’s DNA directly on Carmenza’s body and discovered his blood was also found at the scene. However, the initial post-mortem examination failed to determine a definitive medical cause of death and as such, pathologists could not immediately confirm “third-party involvement”. Because the medical report was inconclusive, local borough officers failed to pass the file to the Specialist Homicide Command. Instead, the borough constabulary treated the case as an unresolved local matter, arresting Levy and processing him themselves. The Specialist Homicide Command only took over both cases after the second murder in August 2025.

Yet again, Levy was in police custody and being interviewed by under caution, and again, the stolen Oyster card had been taken from him and processed by officers. However, when confronted with the DNA evidence, Levy claimed the interaction with Carmenza was entirely consensual and that when he left her, she was alive. But because pathologists claimed that the cause of Carmenza’s death could not be determined, as a result, local police again released him under investigation on standard police bail. Levy was now not simply sexually assaulting women on the Underground; he was committing murder – and getting away with it. What’s more, the police had again handed the stolen Oyster card back to him. Levy was again back on the street, and rather than his brushes with the law deterring him, instead, they appeared to make him feel untouchable, and he continued his reign of terror, using the unlimited access to the London Underground that the travel card granted him to keep stalking female passengers.

On April 7^th 2025, a mere six days after he had been arrested for the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, Simon Levy was back on the London Underground looking for another victim. A woman got on the Underground at Finsbury Park station in North London and she immediately noticed Levy standing in the carriage because he was wearing distinctive, “retro sunglasses”. Levy routinely wore dark or prescription sunglasses in public and in court to cover his right eye, which had been permanently blinded in a vigilante reprisal the previous year. As the train began moving, Levy used the movement of the carriage to mask his intent and purposely fell directly into the female passenger before repeatedly touching her genitals. Sadly, this could have again been prevented, as the British Transport Police had intended to arrest Simon Levy on April 3^rd 2025, but had decided to delay the arrest. The British Transport Police chose to delay the arrest and step back to let the Metropolitan Police take the lead, following his arrest for the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo on April 1st. What’s more, upon learning that Levy was now a prime suspect in an active murder investigation, the British Transport Police chose to perform an internal administrative risk assessment to determine if executing a warrant at his home would put their own arresting officers in physical danger.

On May 1^st 2025 the British Transport Police once again arrested Simon Levy, this time to process him for the string of sexual assaults he committed on the Underground network throughout March and April. Simon Levy was held overnight before being charged on May 2^nd 2025 with five counts of transport sexual assault. The following Monday, May 5^th 2025, Levy appeared before magistrates at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court. However, despite a formal written recommendation from the British Transport Police warning that Levy was a dangerous predator who must be remanded in custody, the Crown Prosecution Service failed to oppose his release or inform the court that he was the prime suspect in an active murder investigation. Levy was released from Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court with a number of restrictions: he was explicitly prohibited from using public transport during peak commuting times, he was restricted to only using Transport for London services when traveling directly to and from medical or legal appointments, he was ordered to live and sleep every night at his home address on Beaufoy Road in Tottenham and he was strictly banned from making any contact with his victims. However, yet again, officers returned to him the stolen Oyster card.

After being formally charged, Levy was scheduled to appear at the Inner London Crown Court for a formal trial preparation hearing in early May 2025. However, a severe administrative blunder occurred immediately and neither Levy nor his solicitor were formally notified that the first hearing date had been officially listed. Because of this communications failure, he did not attend the hearing. Recognising the administrative error, the judge had no choice but to simply log the absence and extend Levy’s bail conditions to a new date. What’s more, this caused his case to be moved further into the summer, and a second formal Crown Court hearing was scheduled. A new date of June 3^rd 2025 was set for this pretrial hearing – however, before this appearance could take place, Simon Levy would again attack another woman on the Underground.

On May 29^th 2025, less than four weeks after his appearance at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court, Levy violated his transport ban and was again looking for another victim. A female passenger boarded a northbound Jubilee Line train at London Bridge station as she travelled across the capital to meet friends at an art gallery. Levy boarded the same carriage and began moving toward her. During the journey, he used the packed conditions of the train to mask his movements and grabbed her genitals twice. Unlike many of his previous targets, this victim immediately and aggressively fought back, publicly confronting Levy in the crowded carriage, calling him a “pervert” and throwing her drink directly over him. This public confrontation forced him to back away, and she immediately reported the incident to the British Transport Police as soon as she exited the network. However, despite the prompt reporting of the crime and the fact the incident was caught on CCTV, it would take weeks for the British Transport Police to act.

Two weeks later on June 3^rd 2025, Levy was set for his second scheduled court appearance at the Inner London Crown Court. However again, he failed to attend. Under standard English legal procedure, when a defendant on bail for a number of serious indictable offences fails to appear without a valid medical certificate, the prosecution is expected to instantly request a Bench Warrant with Bail Back or an Arrest Warrant Not Backed by Bail to have the police track them down and remand them in custody. However, Levy’s defence team presented a vague, unverified claim that he was suffering from a “mental health issue”. The court simply accepted this excuse at face value and the Crown Prosecution Service failed to challenge the claim or demand any medical evidence be presented, as a result, no arrest warrant was sought. This led to Levy’s bail conditions being extended once again and his next court appearance wouldn’t be for more than two months.

Then, on June 19^th 2025 Levy was again arrested by British Transport Police – this time for the sexual assault that took place on May 29^th and for the breach of his bail conditions. Levy was immediately charged for these additional offences, and on June 21^st 2025, Simon Levy again found himself in front of magistrates at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court. Yet despite these new criminal charges and his now extensive history of sexual violence, the Crown Prosecution Service again failed to present his full criminal history to the court or mention his link to the ongoing investigation into the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo. As a result, magistrates granted him bail once again and he was released from custody.

On August 11^th 2025, Simon Levy’s Plea and Trial Preparation Hearing was scheduled to go ahead at the Inner London Crown Court. Yet again, Levy skipped this court date – making it his third consecutive missed appearance. And again, his defence lawyers blamed his absence on a series of ongoing mental health struggles. Despite a clear, recorded pattern of a registered sex offender actively dodging the judiciary while facing multiple counts of sexual violence, the Crown Prosecution Service completely failed to apply for an emergency arrest warrant. Without any call from prosecutors to issue an arrest warrant, the judge presiding over the case simply rubber-stamped the continuation of Levy’s bail. As a result, less than two weeks later, another woman would be murdered at the hands of Simon Levy.

In the early hours of August 24^th 2025, just 13 days after the Crown Prosecution Service failed to request an arrest warrant for Simon Levy, he would murder 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins in the very same B&M service yard where he had previously raped and attacked another woman. Like his previous targets, Sheryl was a vulnerable woman who engaged in street sex work to fund a drug addiction. In the dark hours of 24 August 2025, Levy stalked Tottenham High Road and intercepted Sheryl before leading her into the service yard of the B&M supermarket car park. This was the exact same location where Levy had violently raped, choked, and broken the collarbone of the unnamed surviving victim seven months prior in January 2025. Once behind the wall of the secluded service yard, Levy violently turned on Sheryl and killed her. Like his first murder, the initial medical pathology struggled to instantly pinpoint a clear cause of death, but the trauma was fatal. At 6:30 AM that same morning, a passerby discovered Sheryl’s unresponsive body slumped in the car park and initiated a 999 call, emergency services rushed to her aid, but sadly, she was officially pronounced dead at the scene.

Detectives swarmed the murder scene and retrieved both CCTV footage and a wealth of forensic evidence. Because the murder took place in the exact same car park where a woman had been raped in January, and mirrored the unexplained death of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March, senior homicide detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Specialist Crime unit immediately flagged Levy as their prime suspect. Furthermore, within the first 48 hours of finding Sheryl’s body, officers reviewing CCTV footage of the crime scene clearly saw Sheryl walking into the secluded B&M service yard with a man wearing a dark hoodie and distinctive “retro sunglasses” – it was clear that Simon Levy was the killer. On August 26^th 2025 officers arrived at Levy’s mother’s house to arrest him, but this time, he was aware that authorities would be looking for him, and despite briefly returning to the house, he had gone on the run. Levy was now living a transient lifestyle and evading police by blending into different areas of London, moving from place to place with the stolen Oyster card.

However, the Oyster card allowed detectives to work with the British Transport Police to track Levy’s movements in the week following the murder of Sheryl Wilkins. But despite the fact that Simon Levy had now murdered two women, brutally raped and assaulted another and committed multiple sexual assaults, he remained at large until September 3^rd 2025 when live facial recognition vans that were deployed in North London successfully scanned and flagged Levy as he walked down the street where his mother lived. Plainclothes and uniformed officers immediately swarmed the location and placed him under arrest on Beaufoy Road, bringing the 11-day manhunt to a close. As officers stopped him, Levy feigned confusion and remarked, “I’m just out for a walk.” Mirroring the tactics that he used during his public transport assaults, he immediately attempted to weaponize his partial blindness to de-escalate the situation. He told the arresting officers that he was “blind in one eye” and couldn’t see properly, trying to frame himself as a vulnerable, disabled man who was incapable of being a violent fugitive, but this time the tactic failed.

Over the next few days detectives formally processed Levy and arrested him for the three different outstanding crimes. On September 4^th 2025, Levy was re-arrested for the murder of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo. The following day, September 5^th 2025, he was formally arrested for the murder of Sheryl Wilkins. Finally, on September 7^th 2025, Levy was arrested and charged for the violent January 2025 rape, GBH, and suffocation before being formally charged for the murder of Sheryl Wilkins. Then, on September 8^th 2025, Levy appeared one final time at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court in front of District Judge Elizabeth Baker. This time, Levy appeared in the dock wearing a grey prison-issue tracksuit and dark glasses, speaking only to confirm his name, date of birth, and his address on Beaufoy Road in Tottenham. His defence lawyer, Jason Lartey, immediately tried to use his eyesight to establish a medical record for the upcoming trial, informing the court that Levy was “blind in one eye” and “can’t see without his prescription glasses.” However, this time there was no bail and he was immediately remanded in custody and ordered to appear at the Old Bailey on September 10^th for his formal plea and trial preparation hearing.

Before the murder trial that began on Monday, June 22^nd 2026, Simon Levy was tried in secret for 11 transport-related sexual assaults and the attack on the prison officer that took place when he was incarcerated in 2022. This trial began on January 26^th 2026 and concluded on February 4^th 2026. The judiciary imposed strict reporting restrictions on the trial, which is standard practice under English law when a highly dangerous defendant faces two entirely separate trials back-to-back. Had the media reported on this earlier trial, the details would have flooded the internet and would have completely contaminated the future jury pool for his summer 2026 double-murder trial, allowing his defence to argue that it would have been impossible for him to receive a fair trial. In the closed courtroom, jurors heard how Levy would board busy Tube trains, tie a jumper around his waist to conceal his hands, and intentionally grope commuting women. Despite entering a not guilty plea, Levy declined to take the stand, instead opting to let his legal team put forward a defence on his behalf.

His lawyers argued that because he was permanently blinded in his right eye following the vigilante beating in May 2024, his depth perception and balance were completely ruined. They went on to claim that when Levy brushed against or fell into women on busy Victoria, Central, and Jubilee line trains, it was not in pursuit of sexual gratification. Instead, they argued he was simply “unsteady on his feet” and struggling to navigate packed, moving carriages due to his disability. However, CCTV footage from inside the London Underground proved that despite Levy claiming that he could barely see or walk, he was perfectly agile and able to stalk female victims across multiple platforms. Furthermore, the prosecution proved that his predatory behaviour was highly calculated rather than accidental. Prosecutors showed the jury a wealth of digital material recovered from his computer including his hidden digital spreadsheets, which explicitly logged his stalking, his “favourite sex positions”, and his obsessive archiving of news stories about real-world serial rapists.

Ultimately, the jury saw through his claims of being a vulnerable, disabled man and found him guilty of all 11 counts of sexual assault. Then on June 16^th 2026, Judge Michael Evans quietly sentenced Levy to six years in prison, plus an additional three years on licence. Simon Levy and his legal team would then go on to employ the exact same tactics in his trial for the double murder and rape that concluded on August 7^th. Again, he refused to give evidence, and relied on his defence team attempting to paint him as a vulnerable, disabled man – but this time, his defence team also attacked his victims, attempting to paint them in a negative light and claiming that any interactions they had with Levy were purely consensual. The jury saw through these lies, and found him guilty on all counts. In both trials, Levy demonstrated absolutely no remorse or physical reaction as the guilty verdicts were read out. He sat stony-faced in the dock wearing his signature dark prescription sunglasses. In stark contrast, the families of Carmenza and Sheryl Wilkins openly wept in the public gallery as they finally received justice.

But sadly, this still is not the end of the case, as authorities have stated that they believe that there are more victims of Levy who are yet to come forward. The British Transport Police have now publicly stated that because Levy operated at random and on impulse – using the hustle and bustle of rush-hour Tube carriages as cover – it is highly probable that he targeted more women than those identified in his trials. Following the verdicts delivered at the Old Bailey, both the Metropolitan Police and the British Transport Police have issued urgent public appeals for potential further victims to come forward. What’s more, the May 2024 rape allegation that resulted in Levy’s arrest and brief prison recall, but was at the time closed due to insufficient evidence, has now been officially reopened. The Metropolitan Police have also revealed that they are now treating 2017 as the true baseline for his known predatory behaviour in London. This indicates that investigators have already uncovered intelligence or uncharged complaints linking him to public transport or street-level stalking a full year prior to his July 2018 Camden Market assault. As a result, it is likely the full extent of Simon Levy’s predatory criminality will never be truly known.

There are several theories that have been put forward as to why Simon Levy was granted so many “second chances” and why police and the Crown Prosecution Service always seemed hesitant to pursue him more aggressively – even when it was known that he was a dangerous and repeat offender. Most notably, authorities have fallen back on the excuse of administrative incompetency and inter-agency communication issues. This explanation seeks to wave away any direct blame for what happened in an attempt to lead the public to believe that Levy was allowed to operate with seeming impunity due to a series of awful and completely coincidental blunders. There is also the argument that because both Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl Wilkins were vulnerable women struggling with drug addictions who engaged in sex work the police de-prioritised their cases and treated their murders as largely inconsequential. However, these two explanations have flaws. Firstly, for so many agencies to independently experience exactly the same failings with the same suspect is of course not impossible, but it is highly improbable. Secondly, it must be noted that sex workers were not Levy’s only victims, the majority of those he targeted were simply passengers on the London Underground who had no links to prostitution.

As such, it would be fair to surmise that Simon Levy may have been treated differently by authorities due to a number of characteristics, including his physical disability, his legal team’s claims of mental health issues and his ethnicity. And when looking at the way he was dealt with by both the British Transport Police, the Metropolitan Police, the Crown Prosecution Service and the judiciary, it would be easy to make the case that Levy’s treatment was not down to a simple series of mistakes, but instead due to institutional bias. From his very first interaction with the courts, he was treated with leniency, being sentenced to just three years for two serious sexual assaults. Furthermore, even when incarcerated, he continued his predatory behaviour – yet police did not seem interested in prosecuting him, despite the CCTV evidence which would have provided them with irrefutable evidence to convict him. Unbelievably, despite his attack on a prison officer, he was still released early from jail, serving less than half of his original sentence, before re-offending and being recalled. At this point it would have been easy for authorities to prevent him from re-offending, but even at this early stage, multiple authorities did not seem to wish to pursue him – and worse still, the Metropolitan Police actually downgraded his threat level which led to him being monitored less closely.

These early interactions with the criminal justice system clearly did not act as a deterrent – in fact quite the opposite. Simon Levy started to believe that he was untouchable and that there would be no real repercussions for his repeat offending. This feeling of invincibility will undoubtedly have grown over time, as Levy operated with seeming impunity on the London Underground, with officers from the British Transport Police even handing back to him the stolen Oyster card that allowed him to travel freely. But even when being arrested for murder, officers interviewing Levy seemed to accept his narrative at face value – believing he was just a vulnerable and disabled man who had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. These officers were interviewing a man who was in police custody for the most serious of offences, yet they all seemed to just want the issue to go away and to process Levy out of their custody.

But most damning is the behaviour of the Crown Prosecution Service. Whilst other agencies may not have been regularly in touch with one another – which could lead to legitimate institutional blind spots – the Crown Prosecution Service oversees all charges brought against a suspect and would have been well aware of Levy’s complete criminal history, the large number of outstanding charges against him, and his multiple missed court appearances. Yet prosecutors chose to allow him to continue to walk free, refusing to even make an application to have him remanded in custody or even arrested when he broke bail conditions and missed court appearances. The Crown Prosecution Service had the best view possible of the bigger picture surrounding Simon Levy, but they kept allowing him to walk free. The Crown Prosecution Service cannot fall back on the same excuses as other institutions, which points to the possibility that their decisions were made due to Levy’s characteristics and a hesitancy to deal with a disabled black man in what may be perceived as a heavy-handed manner.

When you compare the treatment of Simon Levy with the treatment of many white offenders who were arrested after attending protests in the wake of the Southport killings, a stark contrast can be observed. Whilst those accused of minor offences – such as shouting at police officers or kicking police vans – were immediately tracked down and arrested, remanded in custody without bail and fast-tracked through the court system before being handed down lengthy sentences, Simon Levy was treated in a much more accommodating manner. As such, it becomes impossible to ignore the accusations of two-tier justice. White men and women who were guilty of crimes that would normally be dealt with by issuing a caution were dragged to jail, yet a man that could be Britain’s most prolific black sex offender was repeatedly arrested and then put back on the streets, with police even handing him back the obviously stolen travel card he was using to facilitate his criminality.

Simon Levy murdered two women, raped and brutally beat another, and sexually assaulted more than a dozen women that we know of. But the shocking fact is that most of those victims – and most crucially the women who were murdered – would still be alive today if authorities had dealt with Levy properly. Furthermore, there were multiple chances to stop him, Levy did not slip through the net once, but did so on so many occasions that by the end, all that he believed he needed to do in order to walk free was to cite his disabilities. Additionally, his own legal team were aware of this, as they repeatedly used Levy’s alleged “mental health problems” as a legal smokescreen to ensure he could get away with missing key court dates. Simon Levy’s crimes are truly unforgivable, but what is worse is the fact that he was emboldened and allowed to operate for so long by the very people who are charged with protecting the public. But when faced with authorities, Simon Levy had a key advantage – as a physically disabled, ‘mentally ill’ black man, he was given preferential treatment by the establishment. Tragically, it could very well be this institutional bias that ensured so many additional women would suffer so greatly – some even with their lives.