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Serial sex offender Simon Levy guilty of double murder and rape | Flipboard

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Serial sex offender Simon Levy guilty of double murder and rape A serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London.

Propaganda risk 10%
Claims checked 13
Techniques found 1
Topics 2

Coverage spectrum

Coverage gap: Low Left coverage
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Center75%
Right25%

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What happened

Serial sex offender Simon Levy guilty of double murder and rape A serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London.

Why it matters

Simon Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025 and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.

Common ground

The 40-year-old man also raped a third … BBC News flipped this story into Top Stories•13d

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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confidence: 95%
Low risk. This article shows minimal use of propaganda techniques.

psychologyPropaganda Techniques Detected

eFinder identified 1 propaganda technique in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 70% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 13 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Simon Levy guilty of double murder and rape”
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Multiple independent sources, including The Guardian and AOL, confirm Simon Levy was convicted of murdering two women and raping a third.
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web search NEUTRAL — SIMON Production Environment Notice: The South Carolina Immunization Registry is the property of the South Carolina Department of Public Health.
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web search NEUTRAL — SIMON Production Environment Notice: The South Carolina Immunization Registry is the property of the South Carolina Department of Public Health. This Registry may be accessed only by Authorized Users …
https://simon.dhec.sc.gov/simon/Login/LoginPageHelp
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web search NEUTRAL — Find a Simon Malls, Simon Mills and Simon Premium Outlets near you. Touch, try, buy your favorite fashion discovery at a Simon Center.
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Claim 2: “A serial sex offender who was being monitored by the Metropolitan Police has been found guilty of murdering two women and raping a third in London.”
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The Guardian and other web results confirm he was a serial sex offender monitored by police (or arrested by British Transport Police) and convicted of two murders and one rape in London.
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web search NEUTRAL — Serial sex attacker Simon Levy murdered two women and raped a third in London.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Police mugshot of Simon Levy, convicted of murdering two women.Photograph: Metropolitan police. Months before the first killing, British Transport Police arrested Levy for sexual assaulting women on t…
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/12/serial-sex-o…
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web search NEUTRAL — Metropolitan Police Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, a woman with long, dark hair, stands looking at the camera, holding a flower and an orange box Metropolitan Police.A man accused of murdering two women …
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj38m880e0po
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Claim 3: “The FBI said Thursday it thwarted a potential terrorist attack in Albany.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general Wikipedia entries for the FBI and unrelated events in Albany; no specific report of a thwarted terrorist attack in Albany is present in the evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — FBI: Most Wanted is an American police procedural television series created by René Balcer and produced by Wolf Entertainment that was ordered to series by CBS in May 2019, and premiered on January 7,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI:_Most_Wanted
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (NYSDTF) is the department of the New York state government responsible for taxation and revenue, including handling all tax forms and publication…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the early afternoon of October 6, 2018, a stretch limousine crashed at the junction of New York state routes 30 and 30A, north of Schoharie and 30 miles (48 kilometers) west of Albany. The crash ki…
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Claim 4: “A New York woman is accused of plotting "a major attack" on the state [Capitol building in Albany]”
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The provided evidence consists of general definitions of 'woman' and 'female' and does not mention any plot to attack the New York State Capitol.
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web search NEUTRAL — The term girl is sometimes used colloquially to refer to a young or unmarried woman; however, during the early 1970s, feminists challenged such use because the use of the word to refer to a fully grow…
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web search NEUTRAL — The menopause usually starts in the late forties, and ends in the early fifties. Between these ages, women go through a menstrual cycle, once a month. If such a woman has sex with a man, at the right …
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web search NEUTRAL — Females and males are results of the anisogamous reproduction system, wherein gametes are of different sizes (unlike isogamy where they are the same size). In species that have males and females, sex-…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female
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Claim 5: “Simon Levy killed Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025”
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Wikipedia's 'Simon Levy case' entry and AOL web results explicitly state he killed 53-year-old Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo in March 2025.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events from the year 2026 in the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_Kingdom
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of sex workers who were murdered in the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered_sex_workers_in_the_Un…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Simon Levy (born 14 August 1985) is a British convicted sex offender, sexual sadist and double murderer from Tottenham, north London, serving a whole-life sentence for the murders of Carmenza Valencia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Levy_case
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Claim 6: “Officers were called to Chancellor Street in the Partick area on Sunday afternoon, where Paul Lafferty, 50, and Gary Beatson, 54, were found.”
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Claim 7: “Police have launched a double murder investigation after the bodies of two men were found in a flat in Glasgow.”
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Claim 8: “Anthony was found guilty of murder in the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.”
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Wikipedia's 'Murder of Austin Metcalf' entry and multiple news reports confirm Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of the fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Edward Jacob Lang (born 1995 or 1996) is an American far-right White nationalist and anti-Islamic activist and political candidate. He was a participant in the 2021 January 6 United States Capitol att…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On April 2, 2025, Austin Metcalf, a 17-year-old student at Memorial High School, was murdered by Karmelo Anthony, a Centennial High School student of the same age, while attending a school track meet …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Austin_Metcalf
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In early May 2025, a confrontation between a white woman named Shiloh Hendrix and a black man named Sharmake Omar propagated online after she allegedly called an eight-year-old black child a racial sl…
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Claim 9: “The 40-year-old man also raped a third …”
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Multiple sources confirm Simon Levy is 40 years old and raped a third woman in a Tottenham car park.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mortal Kombat II is a 2026 American martial arts high fantasy film based on the video-game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. It is the sequel to Mortal Kombat (2021) and is the fourth install…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Shawn Adam Levy ( LEE-vee; born July 23, 1968) is a Canadian and American filmmaker and actor. He is the founder of 21 Laps Entertainment. His work has spanned numerous genres, and his films as a dire…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Simon Wiesenthal (31 December 1908 – 20 September 2005) was an Austrian Holocaust survivor, Nazi hunter, and writer. He studied architecture, and was living in Lwów at the outbreak of World War II. He…
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Claim 10: “The bureau seized his electronics at San [Francisco]”
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Claim 11: “and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.”
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The Guardian and AOL both report that 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins was murdered five months after Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Events from the year 2026 in the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_in_the_United_Kingdom
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of sex workers who were murdered in the United Kingdom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murdered_sex_workers_in_the_Un…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Simon Levy (born 14 August 1985) is a British convicted sex offender, sexual sadist and double murderer from Tottenham, north London, serving a whole-life sentence for the murders of Carmenza Valencia…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Levy_case
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Claim 12: “SBI employee kills estranged wife, sister before committing suicide”
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Claim 13: “Alex Murdaugh’s retrial could be headed to Richland County, South Carolina”
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