Simon Levy, 40, was seen on CCTV going behind a wall in a B&M car park with Sheryl Wilkins, 39, but she was never seen alive again, the Old Bailey heard today
Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was last seen alive before she walked out of the view of CCTV cameras shortly before 1am(Image: PA)
CCTV captured the last moment a woman was seen alive as she walked out of view with an alleged double killer, a court heard.
Simon Levy, 40, was seen on CCTV going behind the wall in a B&M car park in High Road, Tottenham, with Sheryl Wilkins, 39, on August 24 last year, the Old Bailey heard on Tuesday.
Earlier, CCTV had captured the moment Ms Wilkins’ path crossed with her alleged killer as he got off a 149 bus and followed her as she walked past the bus stop.
Ms Wilkins is seen in the footage wearing a crop top, with the defendant walking with his hood up in the minutes before they stop outside the B&M car park.
She is last seen alive before she walks out of the view of CCTV cameras shortly before 1am. It is alleged that Levy then smothered her in a sexually motivated murder, which he denies.
Around 45 minutes after Ms Wilkins was last seen, Levy is shown putting his hood up, before re-emerging also wearing his sunglasses, which he uses because he is partially sighted.
He walks out to the nearby pavement and looks around, before returning behind the wall, looking over his shoulder as he goes. Later he comes out for a second time, and walks back to his home in nearby Beaufoy Road, arriving there around 2am.
During the time that the alleged murder is said to have taken place and in the hours after, a series of cars turn around in the car park and an unidentified man walks and looks behind the wall, but Ms Wilkins remained undiscovered.
Later that morning at around 6.30am, two police officers in an unmarked car arrived at the scene and found her. The jury was shown graphic footage of the discovery of her body.
Boray Is was driving a grey BMW car which was caught on CCTV as he made a U-turn in the B&M car park at 1.45am. Giving evidence, Mr Is told jurors he had dropped his mother off at an airport and was heading towards his uncle’s home in Enfield.
Asked what he saw behind the car park wall, Mr Is said: “I saw a male on the floor. I thought he was homeless because he was sitting down and there was something underneath him. And that’s all I recall. He was just lying on the floor.
“He was on his left looking towards the wall not directly towards me.”
Describing the man who he saw for a matter of seconds in the car headlights, he said: “He had a hoodie on. I think it was a grey hoodie and some jeans. I only saw his forehead I didn’t see his whole face. He was black.
“His pants was down and I could see his buttocks – partial, like when you’re walking about and you don’t care if they are slipping down.”
Qathar Ali’s Mercedes car was captured driving around the car park at 1.37am. Mr Ali, who worked for B&M, had been visiting a friend and spotted a black man kneeling and then lying on his left side when he picked up his car, the court heard. He told jurors it was an area used by people to have sex but he was not allowed to move anyone on.
Levy is accused of murdering both Ms Wilkins and another woman, Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in similar circumstances five months apart last year. Prosecutors claim that he is a serial predator who agreed to pay the women for sexual activity before killing them, which he denies. Levy is also accused of raping a third woman in January last year, and has previous convictions for sexual assault, six of which occurred in the same time period.
The court has already been told that the officers who found Ms Wilkins’ body initially thought it may be the alleged victim of the January rape, which allegedly took place behind the same wall where she was found.
The Old Bailey trial continues.
