CCTV footage captured the final moments of a woman who was last seen alive walking with an alleged double murderer, according to court testimony. Simon Levy, 40, was observed on CCTV entering a B&M car park in High Road, Tottenham, with Sheryl Wilkins, 39, on August 24 last year, as revealed during the Old Bailey proceedings on Tuesday.
Prior to this, CCTV footage showed the encounter between Ms. Wilkins and the accused as he disembarked from a 149 bus and trailed her past the bus stop. In the video, Ms. Wilkins is depicted wearing a crop top while the defendant, with his hood up, walks alongside her moments before they halt outside the B&M car park.
Ms. Wilkins was last seen on camera before she disappeared from view shortly before 1 a.m. It is alleged that Levy then suffocated her in what is believed to be a sexually motivated homicide, a charge he denies. Approximately 45 minutes after Ms. Wilkins was last seen, Levy is seen on CCTV adjusting his hood and later reappearing with sunglasses, which he wears due to partial sight.
He ventures out to the nearby pavement, surveys the area, and eventually returns behind the wall, glancing back as he does so. Subsequently, he emerges for a second time, making his way back to his residence on Beaufoy Road, arriving there around 2 a.m.
During the alleged time frame of the murder and in the ensuing hours, several vehicles are seen turning around in the car park, and an unidentified individual is observed walking around and peering behind the wall, yet Ms. Wilkins remained undiscovered.
At approximately 6:30 a.m. that morning, two plainclothes police officers arrived at the scene and discovered Ms. Wilkins. The jury viewed distressing footage of the moment her body was found.
Boray Is was driving a grey BMW car that was recorded on CCTV making a U-turn in the B&M car park at 1:45 a.m. Testifying in court, Mr. Is mentioned that he had dropped off his mother at an airport and was en route to his uncle’s residence in Enfield. When asked about what he saw behind the car park wall, Mr. Is described observing a male figure on the ground, initially assuming he was homeless due to his seated position and an object underneath him.
Describing the brief encounter he had with the man in the car’s headlights, Mr. Is noted the individual wore a grey hoodie and jeans, with his pants slightly slipping down. The individual, who appeared black, was lying on his left side facing the wall.
Another witness, Qathar Ali, was seen driving a Mercedes car in the car park at 1:37 a.m. According to Mr. Ali, who was employed at B&M, he noticed a black man kneeling and then lying on his left side in the vicinity, an area known for illicit activities, but he refrained from intervening.
Levy stands accused of the murders of both Ms. Wilkins and another woman, Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, under similar circumstances five months apart last year. Prosecutors assert that he is a serial offender who arranged to compensate the victims for sexual services before taking their lives, allegations he refutes. Additionally, Levy faces a rape charge involving a third woman in January last year, alongside past convictions for sexual assault, six of which occurred within the same timeframe.
The court was informed that the officers who discovered Ms. Wilkins initially suspected she might be the victim from the January rape case, allegedly perpetrated behind the same wall where she was discovered.
The trial at the Old Bailey is ongoing.