All language subtitles for Britains.Most.Evil.Killers.S01E05.WEBRip.en

-In February 2003,

police were trying to track down
a vicious attacker

who was targeting young,
blond women.

-He would run up behind them
and hit them on the head,

often with a hammer, repeatedly,

and then run back to his car
and disappear into the darkness.

-One woman, Marsha McDonnell,

had died from her injuries,

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and, by August 2004,

the assailant had claimed
a second victim:

Amélie Delagrange.

-He's a predator.

He's stalking his prey.

He's staking them out
and he's very organized

and he's very planned and that
makes him incredibly dangerous.

-The killer was a man
named Levi Bellfield.

Even after his
incarceration in 2008,

he was linked
with the shocking murder

of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

-I hate it when people refer
to him as an animal

because animals
don't behave like that.

They kill to survive,
not for fun and pleasure.

He was born evil.

He is pure, pure evil.

-Levi Bellfield
had cemented his place

as one of the
world's most evil killers.

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-Levi Bellfield is one

of themost notorious British
killers in recent memory.

He was responsible
for the brutal murders

of two young women

and the attempted murder
of another,

across a 16-month period
between 2003 and 2004.

While serving time in prison,

he was again found guilty,
in 2011,

of one of the highest-profile
cases of the 21st century:

the murder of schoolgirl
Milly Dowler,

a crime that had gone unsolved
for almost a decade.

-They've waited nine years

and been put through the trauma
of this court case.

They linked arms
as the jury foreman

pronounced Levi Bellfield
guilty of murder.

-But this killer's
shocking story began

over 40 years before.

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Levi Bellfield was born

into a Romani Gypsy family

in Isleworth, West London,
on the 17th of May, 1968.

He was one of five children.

Age 10, Bellfield lost
his father to leukemia

and, as a result,

he formed a very close bond
with his mother.

-Bellfield was very much
a mother's boy,

muchbeloved of his mother.

It was a close-knit family,
brought up in West London,

in what was effectively once
a hugecommunity of Travellers

and was groomed to thinking,
from very early days,

that he was very special,

that there was something
particular about him.

His mother encouraged him
in that view.

-I think, during his childhood,
he was a bit of a tearaway.

He was a young lad who wanted
to do what hewanted to do

and not much stood in his way,

so he was often
kind of larking around

and getting into a bit
of trouble at school,

but nothing completely
out of the ordinary.

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-By the time Bellfield was 13,

he'd had his first brush
with the law

and was arrested
for burglary in 1981.

It would not be the last time he
was in trouble with the police.

-I believe Bellfield occupied
what you might describe

as the halo of Levi Bellfield:
"I am greater than anything."

He was above the law,
above suspicion,

operated entirely
under his own steam,

in his own way, at his own time.

-In 1989,

21-year-old Bellfield
set up home with a girlfriend.

They went on to have
four children together.

-He could literally charm
the birds off the trees.

This is a 19.5-, 20-stone man
with a huge neck,

almost occupying
his entire shoulders.

He wasn't an attractive man,

but, my goodness, me,
he had the gift of the gab

and he didn't half use it
to his advantage,

particularly when it came
to girls.

-Another woman who fell
under Bellfield's spell

and would go on to have
two children with him

was his common-law wife
Jo Collings.

-I first met him when I was
about 17, 18, 'cause we all used

to go to a place in Twickenham
called Cellars,

but I kind of knew him
a little bit before then

because, where I used
to keep my horses,

he used to drink at a pub
just round the corner

and his mum lived
just down the road.

Everyone knew him.
He was always, you know,

everyone wanted to be
around him.

He was like the sort of
the fun person to be with,

you know, always loud.

-But Bellfield was not
a man of morals

and often had
extramarital affairs.

His job as a nightclub doorman
helped him meet girls.

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-That way, he had access
to any number of young women,

all of whom,
how I can put it politely,

were not backward
in coming forward.

They were out for a good time

and Bellfield was out
to help them have one.

-He had the talk,
you know, the cuteness,

and, like I said, I mean,
back in the day,

he was good-looking, you know.

Always had the nice car,
always had nice clothes,

and, you know,
he could get the women.

-But his charming persona
soon disappeared,

once he'd got what he wanted.

-In adulthood,
Levi Bellfield became a man

that women
should be quite fearful of.

He's somebody
who was really entitled.

He had a real sense that women
were there to serve his needs

and, when they didn't comply
with his expectations,

he would turn violent
and very nasty.

-The abuse started five, six
months after we got together,

might not even have been
that long,

just with the odd slap and dig,

and then he'd be really sorry
and it's 'cause

he'd said he'd never felt
this way about anyone.

I'd found out I was
pregnant, as well,

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so it was more

he was trying to make out
that, you know,

he really cared
and everything else,

but, I mean, he was still seeing

the one he was with
before me, at the time.

Some of the abuse, he'd punch
you, bite you, kick you,

burn you with cigarettes,

make you sleep naked
on the floor, spit at you.

You couldn't go to the toilet,
unless he was sat

on the bath beside you.

All sorts of things.

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-Despite Bellfield's
violent behavior

towards the women in his life,

they rarely reported him
to the police,

for fear of what
he might do to them.

-Time after time,
in Bellfield's career,

the women in his life
could've pursued

cases against him
for violent attack

and, yet, persistently
chose not to

and that pays some tribute
to his extraordinary charisma.

-I was the only one that had
an injunction put on him

and, within half an hour
of him being served,

it was torn up in an envelope
through my front door

and he'd written
on the envelope,

"Now I'm gonna kill you".

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-By 2002,

Bellfield had fathered
11 children

with five different women.

He'd started a new job,
clamping cars,

and was living in the leafy,
Surrey town

of Walton-on-Thames.

On March 21, 2002,

13-year-old schoolgirl
Amanda Dowler,

known affectionately as Milly,

went missing from her home.

Journalist Martin Brunt
remembers that day very well.

-She was on her way home.

She'd got off the train,

was going to walk

the half-mile or so back
to her home.

She was in her school uniform,
very identifiable.

This was daylight,
busy time of the afternoon,

lots of people around,
but nobody saw anything.

-Milly had phoned her father
to say she was heading home,

but never arrived.

-She seemed to have
disappeared into thin air.

There was CCTV footage of her
getting off the train

at Walton Station,
some very blurred images of cars

and the odd person in the street
where she was headed home,

but nothing more than that

and it became clear,
very early on,

that police
were really struggling

to find
what had happened to her.

-The last sighting
of Milly Dowler

was on Station Avenue in Walton,

just 50 yards from the home
of Levi Bellfield.

-The search has taken in
stretches of water,

including the River Mole,

but police have been
concentrating on ground

near the busy station,
and interviewing commuters.

-We have nothing that gives us
any positive indication

that she's gone off
of her own volition.

Equally, we have
no positive information

that she has been taken
off the street and abducted.

At this time, all of our lines
of inquiry are open.

-On September 18, 2002,

six months
after her disappearance,

the body of Milly Dowler
was found by a group of foragers

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amongst the trees

of Yateley Heath Wood,
in Hampshire.

-So, Milly was identified
through dental records.

She was known to be missing,
dental records were obtained,

and then they were compared
to the remains that were present

and, sadly for her family,

it confirmed that
that's who it was.

-It was clear

to forensic ecologist
Professor Patricia Wiltshire

that Milly's body
had been in the woods

ever since she'd disappeared.

-I was able to tell the police

how long each bone
had been there

and how long ago
it had been moved

because the bones were moved
around by animals, you see.

There was no doubt
in my mind, really,

that she had been there
since the early spring.

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-How Milly was killed

remained a mystery.

The degree of change that the
body goes through after death,

particularly in the sort
of timescales

we're talking about with
Milly Dowler, really hinders

what the pathologist can see,
what the pathologist can say.

It doesn't mean that there's
nothing we can see or say,

but, clearly,
the less we have to work with,

the more difficult it is.

-One likes to be objective.

One likes not to think
of the remains as a person.

One likes to just
look for the evidence

and, but, yet,
you try to be objective

and then, of course,
they take you into a scenario

where you become
fairly emotional.

Well, you can't help it.

It's an emotional
sort of scenario.

And then it comes
a bit of a shock, really.

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-The police have no suspects
and no forensic evidence

and, just five months

after the discovery
of Milly Dowler's body,

only a few miles
from Walton-on-Thames,

another young woman
was murdered.

At around midnight
on the 3rd of February 2003,

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in Kingston, London,

19-year-old Marsha McDonnell
caught the bus home

after a night out
at the cinema with friends.

It was the last time
they would ever see her.

Walking home, Marsha was
attacked from behind,

less than 50 yards
from her parents' front door.

Colin Sutton was one
of the lead detectives

with the Metropolitan Police,
at the time.

-Marsha was found
on the street where she lived,

10 or 15 doors down
from her parents' house.

Local resident heard a noise,

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heard her whimpering,

if you like, and called police

and she was found there
with this terrible head wound

and she was taken to hospital

and died two or three
days afterwards.

Marsha was killed
with a single blow

to the back of the head
with a heavy implement.

-Forensic evidence suggested
the weapon used

was most likely a hammer.

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-Hammers are effective
striking tools,

so it's no great surprise
that you can cause

very severe damage
to a human skull

with relatively little effort,
with an effective hammer.

You'll often see lacerations.

They're often curved, to match
the profile of the hammer,

and you'll often see
skull fractures

that are quite often depressed

or pushed inwards
toward the brain

because the hammer is exerting
its force so focally.

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-Nightfall, and detectives
in Hampton still work on,

but, though they've searched
tirelessly all day,

they remain baffled
as to who carried out

this apparently random attack.

-Often, these things happen

and are carried out
by somebody the victim knows.

In this case,
I'm sure police looked

at boyfriends, family members,

but very quickly ruled out any
kind of suspect like that, so,

it soon became obvious that
this was a stranger murder,

and those are very rare.

So, very soon, very quickly
after Marsha's murder,

people in the area
became very concerned

that there was a killer
on the loose.

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-Subsequent investigations
led police

to a mentally unstable
16-year-old

who wasn't competent enough
to be charged,

or even interrogated
about the incident.

-And, as a result,
he was sectioned

and was put into some sort
of institution compulsorily

and, although he hadn't been
charged with the offense,

everybody kind of thought,
"Well, it was him

and so we can put
that offense to bed

and, you know, we've
solved that," if you like.

-But then, investigators noticed

a possible link
to similar attacks

that had happened in the area
in the months before.

-There was another
16-year-old schoolgirl that,

[sigh] she was thought,
at first,

to have slipped over in the snow
and banged her head

and it was only then,
when Marsha was murdered,

that police looked
at this occurrence,

some two months previously,

and realized that that
could've been an assault as well

and they went back to this girl,

who had been treated
in hospital,

and were able to talk
to hospital staff

and look at the description
of her wounds

and some photographs
and conclude that

the likelihood was
that she, too,

had been attacked,
but had survived.

We found a couple of other
offenses, as well.

Again, young ladies had been
attacked in the street

and hit over the back
of the head

and, in both these cases,
they'd survived.

-However, none of these
other victims

were able to identify
the attacker.

-They just, you know, said,
"I was walking along

and, the next thing I knew,

I woke up in hospital," some
hours or some days later, so,

we didn't have any kind
of clue or sighting

that led us
towards the suspect for it

because they just simply
couldn't remember it.

-All of the attacks seemed
to be totally unprovoked.

Could they all
have been committed

by the same perpetrator,

the man who murdered
Marsha McDonnell?

-As everybody knows,

most murders are committed
by someone you know,

whether it's a husband,
wife, lover, jilted lover.

It's comparatively rare
for random attackers to kill.

-Then, on the 28th of May 2004,

13 months after the murder
of Marsha McDonnell,

18-year-old student Kate Sheedy
was heading home

after a night out
in Twickenham, West London,

to celebrate the end
of her A-levels.

Just after midnight, she caught
the bus to nearby Isleworth

and began to walk the few
hundred yards to her front door.

-She's walking along the road.
She's aware,

up ahead of her
was a people-carrier

that was sitting, parked,
with the engine running

and she said it was white
and "it was sinister,"

was the phrase that she used.

She said it looked a bit
sinister because it was --

it had blacked-out windows

and she just thought
it was up to no good.

She didn't like it.
Some sort of sixth sense

or whatever said to her,
"No, don't walk past that."

So she crossed the road,

so that she would be walking
on the other side of the road

when she walked past
the people-carrier.

She heard this people-carrier
start up, accelerate,

and it literally came
across the road

and simply ran into her,
just ran her over.

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She ended up on the road
between the front wheels

and the back wheels
of the people-carrier.

It then reversed,
so the front wheels went

over her body again,
and drove off.

-Incredibly, Kate survived
the frenzied and brutal attack.

-To overrun a human body
with a large vehicle,

like a people-carrier,
can cause very severe injuries.

You've got all the weight
of that vehicle

going through the tires
onto the body.

If that's across the limbs,
you're going to get fractures.

If it's across the head,
head injuries.

Obviously, the chest and abdomen

are very prone to injury
from that pressure on it

and, for somebody to be
overrun twice and survive

is very close to miraculous
and I suspect it's a compliment

to the skill of the people
who attempted to save her life.

-She had terrible injuries,
you know.

She had every rib broken.

She had her liver was in two
and various sort of injuries

that she was so brave
when she overcame

and she ended up going
to university

and, you know,
getting on with her life.

-Although the attack
on Kate Sheedy

seemed very different to the
murder of Marsha McDonnell

and all the other
reported incidents,

detectives still believed
they could all be linked.

-It's similar in its outcome.

It's similar in the area
where it took place

and the age and the victim,

what she looks like
and all this sort of thing.

It's just the weapon.

Substitute car for hammer,
and it's the same.

They ranged in age
between sort of 16 and 32.

They were all blond
or blondish

and I guess all of them
were well-dressed

and were quite kind of
sophisticated,

looked quite well-off
rather than,

perhaps, some of the other
people in the street.

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-Someone who fitted
that description perfectly

was 22-year-old French exchange
student Amélie Delagrange

and, just three months
after the attack on Kate Sheedy,

Amélie was found,

[ Ominous chord strikes ]
dead.

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On the 19th of August 2004,

22-year-old French exchange
student Amélie Delagrange

caught the bus home to her
rented flat in Twickenham,

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but she missed her stop.

-It was a nice night in August
and she thought,

"Oh, it's not very far.
I'll walk,"

and, you know,
that was her fateful decision.

Had she waited for the bus,

she may well have been
okay that night.

At about quarter past 10:00,

there's a young man walking
around Twickenham Green

and there's
a cricket pitch there

and he walked
across the cricket pitch

and found what he thought,
at first,

was just a bundle of rags
or a bundle of clothes,

but turned out to be Amélie

and she was lying there
on the grass.

Her shopping bag, with her
shopping in, was next to her

and she had her single wound
across the back of the head,

was bleeding profusely.

He thought she was still alive,

at that point,
called for an ambulance.

He ran to the shops
on the north side of the Green

and alerted people to call
police and ambulance

and she was taken to a hospital

and died an hour or so later
of this single wound,

which caused a, you know,

a catastrophic sort of fracture
to her skull and brain injury.

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-It appeared that Amélie
had been killed

by a blow to the head
with a hammer,

just like Marsha McDonnell.

Police were now certain
the killings were

more than just a coincidence.

-We were conscious
that there had been

a number of similar attacks
in the area

over the preceding
sort of 18 months or so.

One of those was the murder
of Marsha McDonnell

and the other was the attempted
murder of Kate Sheedy

and, as our investigation
progressed,

looking at the Amélie murder,
so we realized

that we had to look at these
previous offenses as well.

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-Like all the attacks reported,

there appeared no motive
for the murder.

-Absolutely no reason for it,
none, simply a random killing,

the most difficult kind
of killer to catch,

incidentally, because
there's no connection.

There was no connection
between Amélie Delagrange

and Marsha McDonnell.
None.

They didn't know each other.
They weren't friends.

There was no connection between
those two and Kate Sheedy.

-A second senseless murder
in the same area

meant the story
was now front-page news.

-Suddenly, we had, potentially,
a serial killer on the loose,

not on some
scuzzy council estate,

but in leafy Twickenham
and Hampton,

and that reallystruck fear
in the neighborhood

and police were struggling
to find an answer for a motive.

-Media were very keen
to ask us,

"Is this a series? Are we
dealing with a serial killer?"

Because those words have
a particular sort of connotation

and mean something and,

because we couldn't
link them formally,

by DNA or fingerprints,
we couldn't really say that,

so what we said was that we had
a linked investigative series

and what that meant was these
offenses are so similar in MO

and in their location
and the profile of the victim

that it would be a nonsense

to investigate them
with different teams.

-Pressure to catch the killer
was mounting.

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-Truth was that,

without being
too sort of dramatic

or too sort of clichéd, we knew,
while we were investigating it,

that, if we didn't succeed,

that he was going
to do another one, you know.

There was a time element
in this one.

-But there was
very little evidence

for Colin and his team
to work with,

particularly in Amélie's case.

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-Nobody had seen anything.

There was no CCTV
covering there.

She had a boyfriend.

She had no other kind
of contacts, really,

you know, no family or friends
or life history in England.

She'd not been here very long.

And it had all the
kind of characteristics

of a completely random attack

and they're often the very
hardest to investigate because,

not only do you not have
the links to help you,

but also, they're quite
often those murders

that are preplanned and,
when people preplan murders,

they tend to think
about things like CCTV

and their mobile-phone data
and all the other tricks

and DNA and fingerprints
and things.

All the things that we can use
in most murder cases

can be absent
in preplanned murders.

-There was no DNA evidence
at the scene

of anyof the attacks,

but Amélie's mobile phone
was missing.

Police checked data, to see
when it was last located.

-They were able,
from the phone company,

to get the information
that her phone

had switched off
from the network,

had been lost by the network,
if you like,

at Walton-on-Thames
at a particular time.

This time was something
like eight or nine minutes

after she was found dying
on Twickenham Green

and Walton-on-Thames is
a considerable distance away

and it pointed to the bag
with her phone in it

having been taken away
by somebody in a vehicle.

-Detectives trolled
through 2,000 hours of CCTV

and, eventually, identified
a white van at the scene,

parked close to where
Amélie was murdered.

But there were
over 25,000 similar vans

registered in the UK,

so the police weren't optimistic
about finding the right one.

But luck was on their side.

-We had this file that was --

The official name for it
is the single-suggestion file,

I think, where people
ring up and say,

"I've got an idea who might have
committed that crime.

It is..."
and give a name.

And we had 129 people
in this file

and every one of them
had been suggested to us

from a former wife
or former girlfriend,

or even a current wife
or a current girlfriend,

and I termed it
the women-scorned file.

So we thought, "Oh, we'll go
and have a look through that

and see if anybody in there
had access to a white van

and we might be able to kind of
shortcut the search that way."

-The name Jo Collings surfaced.
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She'd come forward
after the murders were reported

and suggested her ex-partner
Levi Bellfield

as a possible suspect.

-I was technically with him
in a relationship

three, four years,

but he ruled my life
for 11 years, every day.

He would drive past my house
five, six, 10 times a day,

constantly ring me.

He would walk down the alleyway
at the back of my house

and he'd ring me and tell me
what time I'd put the kettle on,

what I was wearing,

who was round my house,
everything.

-Jo told detectives

Bellfield had a white van
for his wheel-clamping business

and that he had
a violent nature,

with a particular hatred
of blond women.

It was a pivotal moment
in the case.

-I'd always,
at the back of my mind,

because of how twisted
and warped he is,

you always think, "He could go
that one step further."

I mean, people say
I'm as guilty as he is

because I didn't
come forward before,

but there was never
enough evidence

or enough people
willing to say,

"Yes, actually, he did do this.
He did do that,"

because so many people
were scared of him.

-We get the report we've had,
which says,

"My ex-partner Levi Bellfield
is a very violent man.

He has a hatred of women,
particularly blondes.

I found a magazine
where he'd stabbed through

all the photographs
of blond girls in it.

He's very weird and it's just
the sort of thing

he'd want to do and he now works
as a wheel clamper

and uses a little,
white van to do it."

So, oh, you know, that's exactly
what we're looking for,

somebody that's got
a small, white van,

so let's try and progress that.

-It was the ownership
of that van that, in the end,

led the police
to Levi Bellfield's door.

-By joining the dots,

Colin and his team could link
Bellfield to another vehicle:

the car that
ran Kate Sheedy down.

-One of the times that he
was arrested was in May 2004,

when he was arrested
for kidnap,

which was kidnapping
the landlord of a pub

near where he lived,
in West Drayton.

And nothing happened about it

and the landlord,
in the end, said, "Oh, no.

It was just a prank
that went wrong.

Don't worry about it,"
didn't want to press charges.

No charges were brought,

but the crucial thing was that
that arrest took place

and that abduction
took place, indeed,

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in a vehicle,

and that vehicle was
a white Toyota Previa.

Kate Sheedy had been
attacked in Isleworth,

not by being hit
across the head,

but by being run over
by a large vehicle,

and she said that this vehicle

was something
like a Ford Galaxy.

Of course, that's exactly
what a Toyota Previa is.

-The white people-carrier,
that was actually on my drive

about two weeks before he
ran Kate Sheedy over with it,

only because he asked me
if he could leave it there

for a couple of nights,
and I begrudgingly said yes.

-And I got somebody to go
and do a check

on the number plate
of the Previa

that Levi had been arrested in
and I remember her saying to me,

"Governor, I think we might
have hit the jackpot,"

and said it was white.

We now had somebody,
Levi Bellfield,

who had the right kind
of white van

that was used at the time
Amélie Delagrange was murdered

and the right type of vehicle

at the time that Kate Sheedy
was run over.

-Bellfield was now
the prime suspect.

At dawn on the
22nd of November 2004,

police raided
his West Drayton home.

In the attic is a naked
Levi Bellfield.

He'd covered himself up,

in the hope that no one
would find him.

Well, they did and, indeed,
the sergeant got him down

and duly handcuffed him.

-Of course, he said to us,
"Oh, I was only hiding

'cause I thought it was a gang.

I thought it was
somebody after me."

Well, it was somebody
after you, Levi,

but it was the murder squad.

-At 8:30 this morning,

police raided several homes
in West Drayton.

The one behind me,

that of 36-year-old
Levi Bellfield

and his common-law wife.

The nightclub bouncer
is currently being held

at a West London
police station.

Bellfield was interrogated
by detectives

in relation to a long
string of offenses,

ranging from rape
to grievous bodily harm.

He refused to answer any
questions and, at one point,

he even petulantly turned
his back on investigators.

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He was remanded in custody

for almost 18 months,
until the 2nd of March 2006,

when he was formally charged

with the murder
of Amélie Delagrange

and the attempted murder
of Kate Sheedy.

The murder of Marsha McDonnell
was added to his list of charges

on May 25, 2006.

Bellfield's trial began
at the Old Bailey

on October 12, 2007.

He pleaded not guilty
on all counts.

Levi Bellfield's trial,
for the murders

of Amélie and Marsha
was very long, very drawn out.

He was an imposing figure
in the dock, big, tall,

but it was his manner
throughout it

that I think drew
most attention.

He looked very bored.

He did give evidence.

There were glimpses
of the charm,

in a way,
when he wastalking.

There was a point
where he was explaining

how you can be
a successful wheel-clamper.

I'm not suggesting
he charmed the jury,

but I think some of them
might have found him captivating

while he was talking
in those terms,

but he also had
a very squeaky voice,

that, again, was at odds
with this

rather physically
imposing man in the dock.

Denied any of the charges.

And you got the impression
that he felt

that he would be acquitted
at the end of it.

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-But the circumstantial evidence

weighed heavily
against Bellfield.

They found 20 or 30 sightings
of this van,

separate bits of CCTV,

and that's when we built up
the picture of this van

circling Twickenham Green,
effectively,

and driving round for a period
of something like 45 minutes

before Amélie was murdered.

Hunting.
No other word for it, you know.

He was cruising
a very small area,

looking for people to approach.

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-On February 25, 2008,

Bellfield was found guilty
of the murders

of Amélie Delagrange
and Marsha McDonnell,

as well as the attempted
murder of Kate Sheedy.

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Judge Mrs. Justice Rafferty

sentenced Bellfield
to a whole-life tariff.

He was immediately sent
to Woodhill Prison.

He will never be released.

His modus operandi,
according to the police,

was that he got very angry,
if he approached a young woman

that he was attracted to
and felt rejected by them

and it is suggested
that this is what happened,

in the case
of the two women he killed.

-So, so, these women, they were
disposable objects to him.

They were part of his
killing game,

his sort of hobby,
his leisure activity.

-The day after Bellfield
received his sentence,

he was named
as the chief suspect

in a case that
had shocked the nation

and remained unsolved
for nine years...

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...the murder of Milly Dowler.

There was a lot
of circumstantial evidence,

particularly the fact that
he had been living close by,

within a couple
of hundred yards,

of the place
where she disappeared.

It was established
that he had use of,

and had used, on that day,
his partner's red car,

which matched one that was found
in CCTV of the scene,

but then there was
the evidence of his partner,

who said that Levi Bellfield

had got up in the middle
of the night,

the night of Milly's
disappearance,

and had made an excuse
to go back to that flat

and, when she later went
to the flat,

she discovered that the bedding
had disappeared off their bed

and he said that the dog
had fouled the bedspread

and he'd had to burn it.

Now, that was quite compelling
evidence for the jury

and they were convinced
that he was the killer.

-On the 4th of March 2008,

an ex-colleague of Bellfield,
Kelly Fry,

told ITV News he confessed
to murdering Milly back in 2002.

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-He pointed at a flat in Walton

and said that he used
to live there

and that he'd lost £900 in rent

that he'd already paid
because he had to move out

and he said, "Oh, yeah,
I also set fire to Emma's car."

And I said, "Why would set fire
to your girlfriend's car?"

And he said,
"'Cause I took the girl."

That was his exact words.

And, immediately, I just knew
that he was on about Milly.

If I, for one minute,
thought that it was true,

then I would've come forward
a long, long time ago.

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-There was no forensic evidence.

There was no smoking gun
anywhere.

They had to build a case with
what people had been saying,

with little facts,
with phone evidence they had,

with what CCTV they had,
which wasn't particularly much.

The whole thing came back
to us knowing

what Levi Bellfield
had done on the night

that Milly Dowler was abducted.

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-Bellfield had been questioned
about Milly Dowler

during the time he was on remand
for his other crimes

and had always replied,
"No comment."

But one person was certain
he'd murdered Milly:

his ex-partner Jo Collings.

-He said that he'd never
been to Yateley

and he had nothing,
no knowledge of the area.

Well, out of all
the photographs,

and I don't know why.

Everything I had I threw away
and I found an envelope.

It had two photographs in it
and it was two of me and him

at Yateley,
which is really bizarre.

And I'm a great believer

of "Everything happens
for a reason"

and I wasn't meant
to throw those pictures out

because they were needed

and, of course,
they showed him in Yateley,

so he knew
where Milly was found.

He knew exactly the lay
of the land

because we used to go there
all the time.

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-On the 10th of May 2011,

Levi Bellfield, three years
after his first trial,

was once again in the dock
at the Old Bailey,

this time, charged with the
murder of Milly Dowler.

Bellfield pleaded not guilty

and refused to give evidence
in his defense.

-With Levi Bellfield,

it's a power-and-control
thing for him

'cause only he has knowledge

of the murders
that he's committed.

Only he knows exactly
who his victims were,

the full extent of the women

that he perpetrated
these crimes against,

and it gives him
a sense of power.

He's in prison now,
so, what he's got control over

is very limited,
but one thing that he still

can exercise power over
is that knowledge

and, as long as that's his,
then he's in control.

-Geoffrey Wansell was
in the courtroom

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during the trial.

-What's striking about Bellfield
is that he wanted to put

every witness
through a real ordeal

because he never once
pleaded guilty.

He wanted them all to suffer

and he particularlywanted
the Dowler family to suffer.

It was as though he was
smirking to himself,

"Look what I'm
putting you through."

He sat there, absolutely silent,

throughout this fierce
cross-examination.

Utterly justified. I'm not
criticizing at all, in fact.

It was perfectly justified.

Bellfield made it happen.

He made it happen
by not pleading guilty

and he made it happen
by instructing

his own defense silk,
his own barrister,

to pursue the Dowlers to the
full extent he was possible of

and it's very difficult
to forgive Bellfield for that

and it underlines
just what a malicious,

malign, evil man he is.

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-On June 23, 2011,

the jury found
Levi Bellfield guilty.

Judge Mr. Justice Wilkie

sentenced him to a further
whole-life tariff,

on top of the one
he was already serving.

-The fact that he is,
as far as I know,

the only convicted killer

who's been given two whole-life
tariffs does make him unique.

A judge in each case,
the two judges,

both felt that his crimes
were so awful

that he should be nevergiven
the chance of parole,

that life will mean life
for him.

To be given two sentences
like that is extraordinary.

I suppose, in practical terms,
it doesn't make any difference.

Again, I suppose,
if he ever felt

that he might try
and challenge that,

he's got to do it twice
and the chances

of him ever being
released are nil.

-I think Levi Bellfield will be
enjoying the notoriety

that comes along with being
a double-life-sentenced prisoner

'cause I think there is
a certain hierarchy in prison,

in terms of the nature
of the offenses

that you've committed, the type
of sentence that you have,

and he will
very much see himself

as the upper echelons
of the prison population.

-In 2016,

it was reported
that Bellfield had confessed

to the murder of Milly Dowler,

giving gruesome details of how
he'd abused and killed her.

Then, shortly after,
he retracted the admission,

causing the Dowler family
untold grief.

He loves to manipulate

and he lovedto manipulate
the Dowler family

and they were his victims,
every bit as much as Milly was.

-Well, basically what's going on

when offenders like
Levi Bellfield admit to things

or don't admit to things
or retract things

is that they are eliciting
quite a lot of attention.

They are keeping people
interested in them.

They are playing with people

'cause people
like Levi Bellfield,

they are the puppet masters.

They like pulling
other peoples' strings.

They like pushing their buttons
and seeing what happens.

-Levi Bellfield is now serving
time at Frankland Prison.

He has converted to Islam
and calls himself Yusuf Rahim.

-Nothing will ever surprise me
with Levi Bellfield.

I don't know what he's done.

Only he knows what he's done.

He would do anything,
if he thought

there was an angle
that made it the best thing

for Levi Bellfield to do
for Levi Bellfield.

And he was ruthless;
he was violent.

He was sociopathic, I'm sure.

So who knows what else
he might've done?

-He sees himself, and still
sees himself, to this day,

as a powerful, charismatic,
famous, now notorious, figure

whose place is guaranteed
in the record books.

It feeds his arrogance.

It feeds his ego
and there's nothing

that Bellfield likes more
than feeding his ego.

-In letters written
by Bellfield from his cell

to the makers
of this program,

he claims that he has never
confessed to anyof his crimes

and still maintains
he is not guilty, saying,

"I'm innocent
of all my convictions...

I have witnessed and done
things I truly regret,

but I'm no killer.

My lifestyle led
to my wrongful convictions...

I blame no one but me.

The real victims are the victims
and families of these crimes.

I am sincerely sad for their
loss but I am not a victim...

My lifestyle put me here,
my choice, my fault."

But some of the people who know
him better than others

refuse to believe
Bellfield's protestations.

-Levi, evil,
all blends into one.

I've always said it before.

I hateit when people refer
to him as an animal

because animals
don't behave like that.

They kill to survive,
not for fun and pleasure.

He was born evil.

He is pure, pure evil.

-Bellfield is a psychopath.

He deserves utterly to be in
jail for the rest of his life.

He's a preening, vain,
manipulative,

smart, deathly man

and, if anyone deserves
to be called evil,

it's certainly Levi Bellfield.

-Despite Levi Bellfield's
claims of innocence,

he has been convicted
of three murders

and one attempted murder.

We may never know if there are
other victims out there, or not,

but what we do know is
that Bellfield

bludgeoned two women
to death with a hammer,

ran another over
repeatedly in his car,

and killed a 13-year-old girl

who had her whole life
in front of her.

Yet, Bellfield has never
offered any reason

or remorse for his actions.

He is, without doubt,

one of the
world's most evil killers.

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