Levi Bellfield was found guilty on 25 February 2008 of the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
56 Facts About Levi Bellfield
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On 23 June 2011, Bellfield was further found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler.
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On both occasions, the judge imposed a whole life order, meaning that Levi Bellfield will serve the sentence without the possibility of parole.
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Levi Bellfield was the first prisoner to have received two whole life orders.
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When Levi Bellfield was 10 years old, his father died from leukaemia.
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Levi Bellfield attended Forge Lane Junior School, Rectory Secondary School then Feltham Comprehensive.
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Levi Bellfield fathered eleven children with five different women, the three youngest with his most recent girlfriend, Emma Mills.
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In May 2022, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that Levi Bellfield was engaged and had applied to marry while in prison.
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Levi Bellfield proposed to a woman who had started writing to him two years previously, before becoming a visitor on a regular basis.
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In June 2023, it was announced that Levi Bellfield had converted to Islam and taken the name Yusuf Rahim.
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Levi Bellfield was convicted of assaulting a police officer in 1990.
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At the time of the attacks, Levi Bellfield ran a wheel-clamping business which operated in and around West Drayton, where he lived.
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Levi Bellfield was smart enough to think she didn't like the look of his car and crosses the road.
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Levi Bellfield thinks 'You think you're so clever' and whoosh, he runs her over.
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Levi Bellfield was seen driving around in his van, talking to young girls at bus stops, while under police surveillance.
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Levi Bellfield was arrested early on the morning of 22 November 2004, on suspicion of the murder of Amelie Delagrange.
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Levi Bellfield was rearrested and charged with Delagrange's murder on 2 March 2006, along with the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy and the attempted murder and causing grievous bodily harm to Irma Dragoshi.
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On 25 May 2006, Levi Bellfield was charged with the murder of Marsha McDonnell.
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On 30 March 2010, Levi Bellfield was charged with the kidnapping and murder of Dowler, as well as the attempted kidnapping of the 12-year-old girls Rachel Cowles on 20 March 2002.
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Levi Bellfield did not give evidence at his trial and denied any involvement in Dowler's death.
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Levi Bellfield died in hospital two days after being admitted.
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Sheedy had described the car after the attack as a white people carrier with blacked-out windows and a broken wing mirror; Levi Bellfield was found to have owned a Toyota Previa matching that description at the time of the attack.
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Levi Bellfield was found at Twickenham Green on the evening of 19 August 2004, with serious head injuries, and died in hospital the same night.
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Levi Bellfield was charged with the abduction and false imprisonment of Anna-Maria Rennie, then aged 17, in Whitton on 14 October 2001.
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Levi Bellfield was charged with the attempted murder of Irma Dragoshi, then aged 39, in Longford on 16 December 2003.
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Levi Bellfield disappeared on the day of her death, having been seen leaving her school during her lunch break.
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Levi Bellfield was discovered face down, fully clothed, in a copse beside a path on the edge of the Heath, at a location a quarter of a mile from her home in Cygnet Avenue.
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Levi Bellfield was said to have been obsessed with the murder when it occurred and remained 'fascinated' by the unsolved killing.
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Levi Bellfield was alleged to have made the confession to a cellmate while on remand.
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Levi Bellfield would have been 12 at the time of Morris' murder, which occurred a year before he received his first conviction, for burglary, aged 13.
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Levi Bellfield was known to have not attended school the day of the murder.
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Former partners of Levi Bellfield recounted that he had a hatred of blond women and targeted them for attacks, and it was noted that Morris was blonde.
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Police believed Levi Bellfield could have been responsible for this alongside around 20 other unsolved attacks on women in London.
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Levi Bellfield left her home above the Midland Bank in Hampstead High Street and was found battered only yards away by a paperboy in Old Brewery Mews, while it was still pitch black.
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Levi Bellfield's husband had died two years previously and she lived with her 19-year-old daughter and a family friend.
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Levi Bellfield's work was described as "shadowy" and involved negotiating large low-interest loans with businesspeople, which her daughter disliked her doing and which she said made her mother visibly stressed in the days before she died.
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In February 2022, it was reported that Levi Bellfield confessed to the murder of Gold.
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The legal team of Michael Stone, convicted of the crimes, maintains Levi Bellfield is the true perpetrator of the attack.
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In December 2017, The Sunday Times reported that Levi Bellfield's ex-wife Johanna Collings had told investigators in the Delagrange case that he was with her on the day of her 25th birthday, the time of the Russell murders, and had spent all day in Twickenham and Windsor, 100 miles away from the scene of the murders which occurred at around 4.30 pm It was an alibi which detectives found credible.
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In February 2022, it was claimed by Stone's lawyer, Paul Bacon, that Levi Bellfield had confessed to the murders of Lin and Megan Russell in a four-page statement with details he claimed only the killer would know.
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The detective responsible for investigating Levi Bellfield's known crimes, Colin Sutton, stated to the press: "Knowing Levi Bellfield as I do, this could be him playing mind games".
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The Metropolitan Police previously investigated allegations that Levi Bellfield was involved in the Russell murders and found no evidence to support the claims.
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In 2023, Levi Bellfield's lawyer claimed that Levi Bellfield had admitted to the murders during a conversation with a prison psychologist.
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Stone's lawyer declared that a signed confession by Levi Bellfield had been handed over to the CCRC.
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Levi Bellfield was last seen by a friend on Ealing Broadway at 5.50 pm that day.
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The confession was not made public until April 2023, and Levi Bellfield was not interviewed over the murder until the following month when he admitted in a recorded interview that he had abducted and killed Chau and pointed to the location of the body on a map.
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Levi Bellfield was not seen again and although Shenkoya's case is believed to have been related to Chau's disappearance, Bellfield has not been publicly identified as a suspect in her presumed murder.
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In March 2023 Levi Bellfield, who was named as a suspect in the case in 2008, reportedly confessed to the attack on Spurrell and several other attempted murders and assaults.
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Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murders of McDonnell and Delagrange, as well as the attempted murder of Sheedy, on 25 February 2008, more than three years after the last of the three attacks.
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Levi Bellfield was not in court to hear his sentence as he had refused to attend court owing to what he said was "unfair press coverage" following his conviction.
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On 30 March 2010, Levi Bellfield was charged with Dowler's abduction and murder, pre-dating the earliest of the other three charges by almost a year.
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Levi Bellfield was named as the prime suspect in connection with the murder in the immediate aftermath of his first trial in 2008.
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Levi Bellfield was again sentenced to life imprisonment the following day and the trial judge imposed a whole life order.
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On 27 January 2016, Surrey Police announced that Levi Bellfield had admitted, for the first time, abducting, raping and murdering Dowler after being interviewed about whether he had an accomplice.
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Levi Bellfield later issued a denial that he made any such confession, but Surrey Police stood by its earlier statement.
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Colin Sutton and his original team of Metropolitan Police detectives described everything from the moment Levi Bellfield was identified through to his arrest, trial and conviction.