Arabic version: أخطاء أبقت ليفي طليقاً قبل مقتل امرأتين في لندن

According to The Guardian, police and prosecution failures left Simon Levy free before he murdered two women in London. An Old Bailey jury found Levy, 40, guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later.

Levy was on bail as a suspect in the first murder when he killed Wilkins. Before the killings, he had been arrested over sexual assaults on women travelling on trains. Delays in bringing charges meant he remained on bail, and further attacks brought the total to 10 across London.

He had previously been jailed for a sexual offence in 2021 and sexually assaulted a female prison officer while in custody. After his release, he carried out sexual assaults on trains between 2023 and 2025 and was also the prime suspect in a rape investigation. The jury also convicted him of raping and attacking a 35-year-old woman in January 2025.

The Crown Prosecution Service said relevant bail information was not provided at three hearings in May, June and August 2025. The information included his arrest over Valencia-Trujillo’s murder, past sexual assault convictions and his status as a suspect in a 2024 rape investigation. The CPS said it should have taken a more robust approach to bail representations.

British Transport Police said a delayed identification parade held up charging Levy after his November 2024 arrest. It also said officers had not searched his home. The Metropolitan police and British Transport Police admitted errors, while two Met officers are under investigation over Levy’s supervision on the sex offender register. Levy received the mandatory life sentence for murder and is due to be sentenced on Wednesday.