Simon Levy’s second murder victim, Sheryl Wilkins, could have been saved, senior Met officer admits.

A convicted sex offender murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on public transport, after police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets. A jury at the Old Bailey has now found Simon Levy guilty of the murders of Carmenza Valencia Trujillo, 54, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in London last year - and also the violent rape of another woman in a car park. Levy had been downgraded by the Metropolitan Police as a risk to women before he carried out the attacks. The Met told the BBC it accepts the life of Sheryl Wilkins could have been saved. The force had apologised to her family, it said. Levy, a jobless loner who lived with his mother, attacked the three women while on bail for sex assaults on trains in London, and went on to carry out further assaults on public transport. Details of his crimes on public transport, plus the sexual assault of a prison officer while he was in jail for earlier offences, can now be reported. He was convicted of them in February. We can also say that between late 2024 and summer 2025 he was freed on bail by police, and then the courts, multiple times - even after having been charged with the sex offences and having broken his bail conditions. Levy had already been in prison for two sexual assaults, and Scotland Yard downgraded Levy's risk to women upon his release in 2024, a decision now under investigation by the police watchdog