Simon Levy, who is blind in one eye, allegedly deliberately targeted sex workers and drug addicts because he thought he would get away with it, the Old Bailey was told on Monday
A “predatory serial sexual attacker” murdered two vulnerable women and raped a third during an eight-month period, a court heard today.
Simon Levy, 40, deliberately targeted sex workers and drug addicts because he thought he would get away with it, his trial was told. Levy, who is blind in one eye, is accused of raping his first victim, who was “left for dead”, in January 2025.
He is said to have forced her to the ground, jumped on her and then strangled the woman while snarling: “Shut up, be quiet, I got you,” it was said. It is alleged that he went on to murder Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March that year before killing Sheryl Wilkins five months later.
Sheryl, 39, was killed in the same Tottenham car park as the first alleged offence which is close to the Premier League team’s stadium and Levy’s home. Opening the case, prosecutor Tom Little, KC, told the Old Bailey: “What is this case that you are now trying all about? It involves a series of predatory sexual attacks in the first eight months of 2025 on three very vulnerable women.
“We say that the attacker was the defendant. Apart from being attacked by the defendant, all three had something else in common which is that they were either sex workers or on occasions would perform sexual services in return for money and/or drugs. That is no coincidence. 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.”
He added that the offences were: “A series of attacks committed by the same predatory serial sexual attacker in a similar way.” Levy was arrested in September and subsequently charged with murdering Sheryl who was found by police collapsed near High Road, Tottenham, at 6.30am on August 24 last year.
He was also charged with murdering Carmenza who was found dead in a largely disused block of flats on the Aylesbury estate in Walworth, South East London, on March 17 last year. Levy’s DNA was found on her body, the court heard.
Mr Little said: “The prosecution say that all of these three women were the victims of the same man and that that man is the man in the dock, the defendant. Two of the attacks took place in the same area, a car park area in Tottenham and which is close to where the defendant lived at the time.”
Wearing dark glasses and a grey sweatshirt, bearded Levy sat flanked by prison wardens as the case against him was opened. Judge Mark Lucraft told the jury the defendant was wearing sunglasses because he is blind in his right eye due to an injury, and has partial sight in his left.
Mr Little said the first victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in her 30s and had been trafficked to the UK. She was a sex worker who was allegedly brutally attacked by Levy after he approached her with money.
Mr Little said: “He said he would pay her then he put his hand around the back of her neck to pull her in to kiss her. She again asked him for the money. He kept saying that he was going to pay, that they would go for a Stella and for dinner.”
Levy then swung his arm under her knee and pulled her onto her back before jumping on her “with all his weight on her shoulder,” breaking her clavicle bone, the court heard. Mr Little said: “She had hit her head on the ground and was feeling dizzy. The man then put his hand on her face around her mouth and she could not breathe.
“She tried to fight and managed to turn onto her tummy but her arms were then pinned underneath her. He covered her face with his hands and grabbed at her throat, he then pulled down her trousers and raped her. The man put a finger down her throat so she could make any noise. He said, ‘shut up, be quiet, I got you.'”
The strangulation caused her to lose consciousness. She reported the attack to the police and told them her attacker was known to her and she knew where he lived.
The woman later picked Levy out in an ID parade. 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 both murders. He has further denied two charges of rape, grievous bodily harm with intent, and non-fatal suffocation against the surviving woman.
The trial continues.
