Vikram Dodd at the Guardian doesn’t mince his words.
Catastrophic errors left a persistent and proven sex offender free before he murdered two women in London, it can be revealed.
On Friday, an Old Bailey jury found Simon Levy, 40, guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins five months later.
Levy was on bail as a suspect for the first murder when he committed the second, after police said they lacked sufficient evidence to charge him.
Months before the first killing, police arrested Levy for sexual assaults of women on trains but made errors that delayed charging him. While on bail, he carried out further attacks, taking the total to 10 across London. Although charged with most of the offences, Levy remained free and went on to commit his second murder.
Prosecutors also admitted to bungling efforts to have Levy remanded in custody, by failing to provide three court hearings with key information demonstrating the full extent of the danger he posed to women.
Yet even before the attacks on women travelling by train, police and prosecutors knew Levy posed a serious risk.
He was first jailed for a sexual offence in 2021. While in prison, he sexually assaulted a female prison officer.
After his release, he carried out a series of sexual assaults on trains across London between 2023 and 2025. He was also the prime suspect in a rape investigation.
In January, March and August 2025, Levy, from Tottenham in north London, savagely attacked three women who provided sexual services, killing two and leaving one seriously injured.
Maybe the police were too busy hunting for terfs to bother with men who abuse and murder women.
The Crown Prosecution Service, the Metropolitan police and British Transport Police have admitted making errors.
Kevin Southworth, a deputy assistant commissioner at the Met, which investigated the killings, described Levy as a “predatory monster”. He said Wilkins, the second woman murdered by Levy, would probably have been alive were it not for what he described as “collective system failures”.
And how interesting it is that the collective system failures are at the expense of women as opposed to…anyone else.
The failings come despite decades of promises from police chiefs, senior prosecutors, courts and government that the criminal justice system will better protect women from male violence after a series of scandals.
Too busy going to Pride parades?
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