Key facts
- Police are urging more victims of sex offender Simon Levy to come forward.
- Levy was known to police as a sexual predator but was able to kill two women and rape a third.
- A review into the monitoring of Levy is being called for.
- Two police officers are under investigation for their handling of Levy.
- The Met, British Transport Police, and Crown Prosecution Service have admitted failures in monitoring Levy.
Police have urged more victims of sex offender Simon Levy to come forward, as London's victims' commissioner described a "litany of failures" that allowed him to kill two women and rape a third. Andrea Simons stated that a review into the "failure to monitor him appropriately" is necessary after Levy, 40, targeted his victims despite being known to police.
British Transport Police (BTP) and the Metropolitan Police (Met) have both acknowledged failures in monitoring Levy between his first conviction in September 2021 for sexual assault charges and his arrest for murder in September 2025. The Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC) confirmed that a police constable is under investigation for gross misconduct, and a detective sergeant is facing a misconduct investigation.
Simons emphasized the need for a "multi-agency review" to understand the lack of restrictions and appropriate monitoring, stating that public services must improve in recognizing patterns of offending. The Met confirmed detectives have "exhausted numerous lines of enquiry" to identify any similar unsolved incidents Levy may be responsible for, but no further victims have been identified so far. Levy is known to have attacked at least 10 women on public transport in London.
Levy was on bail and under police monitoring when he committed a violent rape in January 2025. He subsequently murdered Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, five months later. Earlier this year, he was found guilty of groping 10 women on the Tube and an 11th in prison, with details of these cases only reportable this week following his murder trial. His earlier conviction for sexually assaulting two women in 2018 led to a jail sentence in 2021.
BTP confirmed two officers have been reassigned due to "incompetence" in handling investigations into Levy's transport assaults. Lisa Ramsarran, chief crown prosecutor for the CPS, admitted their actions fell short of public expectations. Lisa Squire, whose daughter was murdered by a man with a history of sex crimes, described a "catalogue of disasters" and "red flags" that police missed. Zoë Billingham, a former police inspector, highlighted that "the dots aren't being joined up" and that there were "an extraordinary succession" of missed opportunities to bring Levy to justice.