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Dear friends, following the horrific attacks on a number of women and the murder of Sheryl Wilkins and Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, please urgently write to your MP to support calls to prioritise sex workers’ safety and end the criminalisation of sex work.Find your MP and their email address here https://members.parliament.uk/FindYourMPSend our model letter below, adding in […]
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 […]