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Convicted sex offender Simon Levy, 40, from Tottenham, has been found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third surviving woman.
Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 54, was found dead in the stairwell of a derelict building in Walworth, Southwark in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found dead in Tottenham, north London in August.
Levy, who was being risk managed by the Met, was also found guilty of two rapes, grievous bodily harm and intentional suffocation, against a third surviving woman in Tottenham in January 2025.
When Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was murdered in March last year, the killer made no attempt to hide her body. She was discovered, with visible injuries, lying face-down in the stairwell of a derelict block of flats in south London.
The DNA of registered sex offender Simon Levy was found on Carmenza’s body and he was arrested on suspicion of murder by local officers. But he was released without charge and the Metropolitan Police decided not to pursue a murder investigation.
The BBC can now report in detail how, earlier this year, Levy was also convicted of sexual assaults against 10 women on the tube between 2023 and 2025, and the sexual assault of a prison officer in 2022.
BBC News has been following Levy’s case and can now reveal the multiple failings of the authorities, the Met, British Transport Police (BTP) and courts, which led to Levy being able to continue to harm women – and eventually kill two.
The Met has accepted that the life of Sheryl Wilkins could have been saved, had it not been for its failure to prosecute Levy sooner.
There has been a “collective system failure” and it is a “tragedy beyond words that I can express,” deputy assistant commissioner Kevin Southworth told the BBC.
He has apologised to Sheryl’s family, he says, for “any role that we’ve played in failing to protect her from this man”.
Detective Chief Superintendent Pete Fulton, from BTP, said that delays in carrying out ID parades on Levy “absolutely wasn’t good enough” and was down to “incompetence” by two officers who have since been moved to other roles.
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After Wednesday’s dramatic event in which a pilot stabbed another pilot and tried to take over a flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv, we look at what happened in the moments and hours after.
Adam is joined by BBC Verify’s Thomas Copeland to help piece together the details of the story, and Jane Corbin who assesses the political reaction and how it’s going down in Israel.
Faisal has been speaking to the governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, about the good and bad sides of the AI boom. He warns it could trigger market shocks. He also discusses the rise of deepfakes – AI-made pictures and videos of people that look real – which can be used to fool the public.
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00:00 What do we know about the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv?
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Cities in Ukraine have once again come under sustained Russian attack, with drone strikes in Dnipro, Sumi and the capital Kyiv.
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Are these the gadgets of the future?
BBC Tech Now’s Andrew Rogers has the highlights from IFA Berlin, one of the world’s biggest technology shows.
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Across the world fuel prices are hitting record highs – as the US war with Iran continues beyond its seventh month.
In the UK, energy bills continue to rise – inflation in Germany has hit its highest level in almost three years – and last month the US federal reserve raised the cost of borrowing for the first time in more than three years. The crunch is real – and being felt everywhere.
During this special programme presented by Maryam Moshiri we take a global perspective – with our global teams we hear about the impact – from Asia to Africa and explain what is being done, and what you as a consumer can do too.
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Sir Alex Ferguson has released his latest memoir ‘Games of my Life,’ packed full of stories and memorabilia from his long career.
Speaking to Nina Warhurst for BBC Breakfast in his first interview since he was hospitalised with a brain haemorrhage in 2018, Sir Alex discusses his career highs and his new book.
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