When Sheryl Wilkins was found murdered in the B&M car park in Tottenham last August, local resident Annem Hobson's heart sank.

"I had this big a pang of anger, just absolute anger," she said, "because I am so frustrated."

Annem has lived in the area for nine years and in that time, she has been campaigning for more security and safeguarding for the sex workers who use the space, mainly - but not always - at night.

The huge superstore car park is set back from the main road and is open 24 hours. It is completely dark at night.

"Sex workers don't get treated like your average woman - it's like their lives are more expendable, and that's just not acceptable," Annem said.

Earlier this month, Simon Levy was jailed for the rest of his life for murdering Carmenza Valencia-Trujillo, 53, in March 2025, and 39-year-old Sheryl Wilkins five months later.

The 40-year-old also raped a third woman in January 2025 in this same Tottenham car park where Sheryl was found dead.

"We don't even know how often Simon Levy came here," said Annem, as she showed me the deserted loading bay at the back of the car park where Sheryl was murdered.

"We know he was local. He would've known that this is somewhere that you can pick up vulnerable sex workers.

"This is a dangerous space for women," she reiterated.

Driving down Tottenham High Road on a Friday night from midnight into the early hours of Saturday, I couldn't help but notice how many people - mostly men - were hanging about on the streets.

A small group of older sex workers were also on the streets, as well as a large number of people who were clearly addicted to drugs.

The police station was closed.

A local shopkeeper, who didn't want to be filmed or named, told me there have been two assaults in his shop in recent months which have been reported to police, but as yet not resolved.

As we tried to speak discreetly, addicts were coming in and out and we had to stop.

He told me he feels as though he has been left alone to deal with the antisocial behaviour problems himself.

But it's the superstore car park further down the High Road which seems to be of most concern.

The land that the car park stands on is owned by the local football club Tottenham Hotspur but leased by superstore B&M.

It's land that has long been earmarked for redevelopment, but this is said to have been held up by a long-running legal dispute.

Because it's private land, the police and council are limited in what they can put in place to stop crime and antisocial behaviour.

The site is next to a local primary school.

In the daytime in better light, used condoms, a pair of knickers, drug paraphernalia - including nitrous oxide cannisters - and beer cans can be seen scattered around the car park.

A row of abandoned shops alongside the superstore includes a hairdresser, a pharmacy and a Polish shop, all of which had closed long before Annem moved to the area.

"It's commonly known that vulnerable sex workers use it," she said.

"I was walking out of the house yesterday at about 6:30 in the morning going to nursery to drop off my daughter on the way to work, and I saw two vulnerable women still using the site.

"Nothing has changed."

"I am so frustrated, banging my head back and forth with the council, with Spurs, trying to get answers from the Metropolitan Police, asking: 'What's going on, are you installing a barrier, what's the support, where's the outreach for the women?'

"To have repeatedly asked and just be fobbed off with, 'Oh, there's a lease dispute,' 'Oh, they're redeveloping it,' " she continued.

"We've been given non-answers for six years, and then for it to end in somebody's life being taken - for me it was just instant anger."

She added: "Nothing has changed, no safeguarding has been proposed, there isn't really proper CCTV. This is open land, which, at night when the B&M shuts, is absolutely rife with antisocial behaviour."

Directly opposite the car park across the High Road is The Coach & Horses pub, run for the past 11 years by landlady Tina Chisholm.

"We had prostitutes over there and I used to look after them because they were young girls," she said.

Tina told me she had managed to help one young sex worker off the streets and into a flat.

"She's doing really well now," she said.

Tina added that the demographic of those using the car park had recently changed.

"There's no 'normal' prostitutes out there now, they are all crackheads," she said. "The noise out there at night is terrible. It's filthy over there."

She agreed to walk back over with me to the car park, where, she said, she was one of the only local people to leave flowers for Sheryl.

As we walked, she pointed to the piles of rubbish and clothes and excrement on the car park walkways, which she said was human waste.

"They do their business everywhere," she said. "If they had a police car coming in here, even for a few weeks, it wouldn't happen."

But trying to get the owners, leaseholders, police or the council to take ultimate responsibility for safety at the site, or even to work together to come up with a solution, has been challenging.

Each party points to another as being the one who should step up.

A spokesperson for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, which owns the land, said it had "continued to engage with B&M regarding concerns raised about the site and have reminded them of their responsibilities as the operator. As a result, B&M will now be taking necessary measures to secure the site."

B&M said: "We take this responsibility (creating a safe environment for customers and the wider community) extremely seriously and are actively working with the landlord to invest in measures available to us as a leaseholder and implement any further steps that may be appropriate. These measures will be in place by the end of September."

They added: "We would also look to the Metropolitan Police to take firm and effective action to combat any illegal activity around this store."

The Metropolitan Police, meanwhile, said it had "recently deployed specialist officers across Haringey and Enfield to protect people involved in street‑based sex work".

"This [police] work enhances existing policing and involves apprehending individuals who exploit vulnerable people, and rebuilding trust with women at risk through partnerships with charities and local authorities."

Haringey Council said: "We acknowledge the public outrage and fully recognise concerns about crime and safety around the B&M car park.

"While we have been working closely with the police and local partners to secure environmental improvements such as enhanced lighting, CCTV, and wider site management, we must recognise that the issues with this location, as well as the case of Simon Levy itself, extend far beyond the physical environment alone."

The council added that "fundamental changes" relating to "exploitation, vulnerability, deprivation and community safety" required a "holistic approach and a co-ordinated response from a range of agencies as well as partners from the voluntary and community sector".

It's clear that local people like Annem and Tina don't have much faith that the buck-passing about who is actually responsible for safety at the site will end any time soon.

"Every single email that I've had from the various parties shows me that they are not working collaboratively," said Annem.

"I want to see a real clear resolution on who is taking responsibility."

Tina agrees.

"We've got a beautiful shop," she said, pointing to the superstore, "the people are nice in there.

"But for their safety as well, they come out of work at night, it's dark out here. When the cleaner comes early in the morning, she's in darkness."

She adds: "We've had a murder here, we don't want another one."