Serial sex predator Simon Levy, 40, who murdered two women and violently assaulted a third, followed controversial influencer Andrew Tate online and searched for stories about rape and murder in the months before his attacks. The jobless offender, who lived with his mother in Tottenham, remained largely silent after his arrest, but his internet history revealed a disturbing pattern of behaviour.
Internet history exposes dark interests
Police seized Levy's computer after his arrest and examined nearly 100,000 items, including web browser history, Google searches, and images. Among the high-profile figures he looked up were Tate and US President Donald Trump. Between October 2024 and September 2025, Levy also browsed news websites for stories about murder and showed interest in sports, politics, theft, and music concerts at Tottenham Hotspur stadium.
His searches included names of criminals, tennis players, comic book characters, and the films Wicked and Tom and Jerry: Back to Oz. Levy's intimacy issues were evident in queries about finding love at Notting Hill Carnival, not being able to find the right person to marry, and “why would your girlfriend betray you”. The carnival was the scene of an earlier sex assault and where he picked up an Oyster card used on the day of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo's murder in March 2025.
Escalation to violence
Days before raping a woman near his home in Tottenham in January 2025, Levy searched online about refusing to pay an escort for sex. The rape victim testified that Levy offered her money for sex but then reneged, subjecting her to a violent assault that left her with a broken collarbone.
Five days before murdering sex worker Sheryl Wilkins in August 2025, Levy watched an interview with Tate on YouTube and a video titled “Mary Trump reveals the childhood trauma that made Trump the way he is”. The same night, he made more searches about the US president and watched another Tate video. Among seemingly innocent images of sports personalities, food, and watches were screenshots of news articles about murder, rape, and other crime.
History of offending
Levy's earliest known sex offending dates back to 2018, when he sexually assaulted a woman at a party in Camden Market and another at Notting Hill Carnival, for which he was convicted in 2021. In 2022, he assaulted a prison officer and went on to attack 10 women on the London Underground upon his release between October 2023 and May 2025. He was convicted of those offences in February 2026.
Levy, who lost sight in his right eye in May 2024, had moved back to live with his mother, Marcia Clark, after a spell in an approved premises for prison leavers in Southwark. As an ex-offender, he had repeated contact with authorities before and during the period he committed the murders and continued his sexual offending.
Probation and monitoring failures
In a probation interview in 2024, Levy revealed he had not been in a relationship with a woman since 2023, aside from his mother. He did not use online dating services and had not attempted to renew intimate relationships with past girlfriends. When asked about sex workers, he denied paying for sex, stating it was not something he would do. However, he described frequently being offered sexual services both at his approved premises and at his mother's home.
He talked about having to pay for the affections of females and said he would like a long-term, meaningful intimate relationship but “needed to work on himself first”. Levy was the subject of two home visits to monitor his risk as an ex-offender between the two murders. On March 28, 2025, he told officers he did not go out and watched films and YouTube instead. On July 10, 2025, he maintained he was not going out much due to being unsteady on his feet and not meeting friends. He also claimed his eye injury and mental health kept him at home.
Arrest and denial
Levy was first arrested for the murder of Ms Valencia-Trujillo at his home in Beaufoy Road on April 1, 2025, but was released under investigation, leaving him free to murder Ms Wilkins. As he was led away, his mother asked police: “What are you talking about murder?” and Levy insisted he “didn’t do nothing like that”. On his arrest for Ms Wilkins' murder in September 2025, he protested his innocence again, saying: “I’ve had this situation before, I didn’t do nothing.” Levy refused to answer questions in police interviews and declined to give evidence in his murder trial at the Old Bailey.
