Police have urged anyone who may have been attacked by Simon Levy to come forward after London’s victims’ commissioner said a “litany of failures” allowed him to kill two women and rape a third.
Andrea Simon has called for a multi-agency review into what she described as a failure to monitor Levy appropriately while he was already known to the police as a sexual predator. The Metropolitan Police, British Transport Police (BTP) and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have all acknowledged shortcomings in how Levy was handled between his earlier convictions and his arrest for murder.
Levy, 40, was found guilty on Friday of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, and of raping another woman in London while he was under police monitoring as a convicted sex offender. He is due to be sentenced on Wednesday.
Police say they have exhausted numerous lines of inquiry, including working with coroners, to establish whether Levy is responsible for any additional unsolved incidents, including other deaths. No further victims have been identified publicly so far, but both the Met and BTP urged anyone who recognises Levy as their attacker to contact police. BTP said more women “may recognise [Levy] and have not yet reported what has happened to them.”
Levy was convicted this year by a jury at Inner London Crown Court of groping 10 women on the Tube and an 11th while in prison; reporting restrictions on that case only lifted after the conclusion of the murder trial. The Tube assaults took place between October 2023 and May 2025, and the prison offence in April 2022. He had earlier been convicted of sexually assaulting two women and was jailed in 2021.
The IOPC (Independent Office for Police Conduct) said a police constable is under investigation for gross misconduct and a detective sergeant is subject to a misconduct probe over the policing of Levy. BTP has also confirmed two officers have been moved to other roles, citing “incompetence” in how transport assaults linked to Levy were handled.
Lisa Ramsarran, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, acknowledged the service’s failings, saying their actions fell short of the standards victims, families and the public should expect. Victims’ campaigners and former police inspectors have criticised the way agencies missed patterns of offending that might have prevented later, more serious crimes.
Lisa Squire, whose daughter was murdered by a man with a history of sex crimes, described the sequence of errors as a “catalogue of disasters” and said warning signs had been ignored. Zoë Billingham, a former independent police inspector, said it was not a few missed opportunities but an “extraordinary succession” of failures to join up information and act to protect women and girls.
Authorities repeat their appeal to anyone who believes they may have been a victim of Levy to contact their local police force or British Transport Police. The calls for a thorough review reflect concern about how monitoring and restrictions were applied and aim to ensure lessons are learned to prevent similar failures in future.
