Double killer ‘stabbed prison guard in neck with pen and tried to strangle him at UK’s toughest jail’

NewsUK News A DOUBLE killer allegedly stabbed a prison guard in the neck with a pen and tried to strangle him in a jail attack, a court heard. Simon Levy is accused of ambushing the worker at maximum security HMP Belmarsh in February. Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo was discovered dead in a block of flats Credit: PA Simon Levy killed two women and raped a third Credit: PA The 41-year-old was being held on remand at the time for murdering two women and raping a third in a crime spree in London. Levy appeared appeared via videolink at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm and intentional strangulation. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Prosecutor David Burns said Levy was finishing a meeting with Belmarsh guard Paul Dunne when he allegedly “attacked him with a pen, stabbing him multiple times to the arm and neck”. Mr Dunne then fell to the floor before Levy “grabbed the officer around the throat” and tightened his grip, the court was told. Sheryl Wilkins, 39, was found dead near a B&M store in Tottenham, North London Credit: PA The alleged attack took place at HMP Belmarsh Credit: Getty Levy’s lawyer, Jason Lartey, told the court he denies assaulting the officer or grabbing him around the throat. Deputy Chief Magistrate Tan Ikram sent the case to Inner London Crown Court for trial, with a hearing set for September 14. Levy was handed a whole life term last week for murdering grandmother Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, and mother-of-four Sheryl Wilkins, 39. Carmenza was found dumped in the stairwell of a derelict building in Peckham, South East London, on March 17 last year. Most read in The Sun Sheryl was found collapsed near High Road, Tottenham, at 6.30am on August 24 last year. The killings happened after he had also carried out a string of sexual assaults on the Tube and raped a woman in a car park.