Sex workers fighting for their rights: against rape and other violence, sexism, racism and financial discrimination and for housing, benefits and access to justice The English Collective of Prostitutes (ECP) is a sex workers’ collective campaigning to end criminalisation and for the rights and safety of sex workers. We provide practical help and assistance to […]
In today’s newsletter: The women most at risk of violence are often the least likely to be heard – the murder of two sex workers shows why that must changeGood morning. Last week, Simon Levy, a registered sex offender, was sentenced to a rare whole life tariff for the murders of Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo and Sheryl […]
Sheryl Wilkins was murdered by Simon Levy—a man who had previously attacked women, had been convicted of violence against women, had been investigated in connection with the murder of Carmen Valencia Trujillo, and was nevertheless released on bail. Just four months later, he murdered Ms Wilkins.Women in our network who worked in the same area […]
Convicted sex offender Simon Levy, 40, from Tottenham, has been found guilty of murdering two women and violently raping a third surviving woman.Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 54, was found dead in the stairwell of a derelict building in Walworth, Southwark in March 2025 and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found dead in Tottenham, north London in August.Levy, who […]
Daniel De Simone and Amy Johnston, BBC News Warning: Contains graphic details of sexual offencesA convicted sex offender murdered two women, raped a third, and sexually assaulted others on public transport, after police, prosecutors and courts made a series of disastrous decisions that left him free to roam the streets.A jury at the Old Bailey has now found Simon Levy […]
ECP’s Niki Adams from 8:27Simon Levy has been found guilty of murdering two women and sexually assaulting a third, who escaped the violent attack with a broken collarbone.Levy, 40, was found guilty of murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March last year, and Sheryl Wilkins, 39, in August last year.He killed both of the vulnerable women […]
On 28 May 2026, our sister organisation Empower Foundation submitted a bill to decriminalise sex work to representatives of the House of Representatives and the House Committee on Law, Justice and Human Rights, at an event attended by MPs from the People’s Party and Pheu Thai Party. The proposed Sex Service Provider Protection Act would […]
Socialists support decriminalisation of sex work—and fight for a society where women aren’t treated as objects and human relationships are free from the market, writes Judy Cox Sex workers strike in Soho in London on International Women’s Day 2018 to protest poverty and criminalisation, and to draw attention to their campaign for full decriminalisation […]
Lauren Crosby MedlicottMaria has been tirelessly working the streets of Enfield as a sex worker on and off for seven years after escaping Romania to try and make a better life for her family back home. ‘Many women like me do this work because we have no other way to survive,’ Maria, 27, tells Metro. ‘Some of us have children. Many of us […]
