Synopsis
Wheel clamper Levi Bellfield battered two victims to death and ran over a third when they did not share his belief he could have any woman he wanted. Police are convinced he has claimed dozens more victims, including schoolgirl Milly Dowler. He was jailed for life and told he will die behind bars.
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Hatred...Levi Bellfield was motivated by his loathing for blondes
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Victim...Amelie Delagrange
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LEVI BELLIFIELD: THE BUS STOP STALKER by SIMON ALFORD
Levi Bellfield developed an obsession with young, blonde, girls when he worked on nightclub doors across London during the 1980s which turned into a murderous hatred.
He would leer at pretty clubbers as they queued up and when he became a wheelclamper he kept blankets in the back of his van so he could lure girls on to the back seats.
Bellfield fitted blacked-out windows and neon lighting to his Toyota Previa to make it more 'private' and toured the streets of west London trying to engage women in conversation.
He believed his boyish face could win over 'the ladies' and bragged about owning his clamping business and how much money he earned.
His long-term girlfriend Emma Mills said he would 'always be out' and he would leave the house suddenly to spend nights trying to woo women.
In his profile on social networking website Friends Reunited, he bragged: 'What can i say? feel stupid coming on here. Was short at school now over six feet ha ha.
'Got my own door security and wheel clamping company.... hope i aint clamped you.
'I havnt (sic) grown up still think im 18 out clubbing, ibiza, tenereif doing ok good laugh the slippers aint out yet.
'AM I SOUNDING A PRAT?'
'A bit flash, like the labels am i sounding a prat???? dont look my age have seen a few people from school they look 45 sad....any single girls out there e mail me........ LATERS.'
Bellfield letched at schoolgirls who attended Gumley House Convent School, where victim Kate Sheedy was headgirl, and he began an affair with a 16-year-old who he moved in with at a rented flat in Crosby Close, Hanworth.
His former friend and employee Ricky Brouilliard told police his boss offered him the chance to sleep with his girlfriend and her sister.
Mr Brouilliard said Bellfield often had sex with women in his van and kept a quilt in the back just in case.
'I would describe Levi as an animal. His girlfriend was a naive little girl and he didn't treat her very well,' he told the police.
'Her sister was a tiny girl, 14-years-old. He told me he had sex with her.
'I remember being disgusted. I met her on one occasion and he said "do you want to buy her off me".'
Bellfield once confessed to an ex-partner he hung round alleyways wanting to 'hurt, kill, stab or rape women'.
The same girlfriend found a magazine in Bellfield's bin with pictures of the faces of blonde models slashed in half.
HATED BLONDES
Bellfield told her he hated blondes and they were 'c*nts who weren't worth a bolt.'
Another ex-lover claimed in her police statement that Bellfield 'had a thing for his 13 year old cousin'.
In a pre-trial hearing prosecutor Brian Altman told the court: 'In each case the evidence is clear that the attacker is a stranger to the victim and it is consistent with someone who harbours great animosity towards women of a certain description.'
Bellfield has been married four times and fathered fathering eleven children, aged 19 to three, by five different women.
During each relationship he always get back in his car and start searching for new targets, claiming he was out 'cold-calling' for new clamping business or viewing cars for sale.
He would use alias names including David Bennett and Lee Johnson and lie about his age.
Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton, who led the Operation Yeaddiss inquiry and snared Bellfield, said: 'Levi Bellfield had an interesting personal life. He had an interest in the opposite sex, an unhealthy interest.
'One of Levi's activities was to chat women up in the street in his car.
'There's a theory, and it's a reasonable one, that when they told him to go away he reacted badly to it.
BATTERED TO DEATH
Marsha McDonell was just 19 when she was battered to death just a few hundred yards from her home on February 3 2003.
She said her goodbyes to friends Natasha Jenson and Louisa Zajdler at a Kingston bus stop at 12.08am.
She told them 'I'll be fine' as she set off on her short journey home to Priory Road, Hampton.
The last image of her alive was recorded as she stepped off the 111 bus at 12.17am in nearby Percy Road.
She collapsed suffering from massive head injuries outside number 60 Priory Road a few minutes later.
Marsha was just a few yards from her family home at number 88, where she lived with mother Ute and father Phil, sisters Maya and Natalie and brother Jack.
Her father was a former tour manager with several bands including Fleetwood Mac and Van Morrison and kept strong links with the music business.
Former Oasis drummer Alan White is a family friend and at the time of Marsha's death, pop princess Kylie Minogue is said to have sent flowers to the family.
Marsha was a 'an academic high-flyer', keen violinist and netball player, who was taking a gap-year before continuing her studies at university.
She was working part-time at the Kingston branch of Wax Lyrical when she was killed.
'CATCH ME IF YOU CAN'
On the night she was attacked Marsha had been out with Miss Jensona and Miss Zajdler to see Leonard DiCaprio movie 'Catch Me If You Can.'.
She suffered massive brain injuries when Bellfield repeatedly hit her over the head with a hammer and died two days later in hospital, with her parents at her bedside.
Amelie Delagrange, 22-year-old arrived in London just three months before she was murdered by Bellfield.
The French national, who lived with her family north of Amiens, in the Somme region.
Her family say she developed a 'passion for English' from a young age and went on to study the language at school, along with Spanish.
During her college work she enjoyed a six-week stay in Manchester and 'returned happy', according to her mother Dominique Delagrange.
'We were concerned to see her going abroad and parting was very difficult,' she said of her daughter.
By May 2004 she had set up home, renting a room from Caroline Priestley in Gould Road, Twickenham.
She began working as a waitress at the Maison Blanc patisserie in nearby Richmond and settled in quickly with other French staff.
Her English improved as she grew in confidence during her stay and her circle of friends increased.
RETURNING HOME
Amelie announced before her death that she would be returning home to see her beloved family at the end of August.
But she changed her plans and decided just a few days before she was murdered to head back to France on September 8 or 16.
Amelie spent the last few hours of her life 'laughing and enjoying herself' as she sipped on glasses of wine with friends at Cristalz wine bar in Twickenham.
Earlier that day she had been out shopping in Richmond and had shown-off the new red top she had bought from Next to her friends at Maison Blanc.
Benjamin Patrix was among the group with Amelie as they took advantage of 'Happy Hour' and sat outside in the evening sun.
'The conversation in the bar was about Twickenham being a safe area and we spoke about other areas that were unsafe,' he said.
She waved goodbye to her friends around 9.30pm on August 19, 2004 and boarded the London United Busways R267 heading towards Twickenham Green.
Friend Lauren Pomares (CORR), who worked with Amelie at the patisserie, described her as 'very pretty, with a lovely smile'.
DISORIENTATED
The slightly 'tipsy' student became disorientated and missed her stop, eventually getting off at Fulwell Bus Garage in Wellington Road.
She then had to walk back up Hampton Road to get to her home at (60) Gould Road, where CCTV cameras captured her final movements.
Moments later she was battered to death with a blunt object as she took a shortcut home across Twickenham Green and her body was found shortly after 10pm the same night by a passer-by.
During the trial it was Amelie's 26th birthday and her parents
Her parents Dominique and Jean-Francois, who were in court virtually every day and visited the spot where she died to lay flowers on her 26th birthday.
University student Kate Sheedy was 18 and due to sit her A-level exams in just a few months when she was attacked by Bellfield.
She was mown down by the killer at he wheel of his Toyota Previa and he reversed over her body and left for dead in the street.
The impact of the smash on May 28 2004 'crushed and fractured' her liver.
Kate suffered two punctured lungs, one of which collapsed, several broken ribs, a broken collarbone and her lower back was 'ripped open' leaving a deep scar.
INTENSIVE CARE
She spent a week in hospital sedated in intensive care and endured 12-months of treatment in a bid to recover.
As a result, she never took her exams and was given a university place on the basis of the good grades she was predicted to get.
Kate started reading the history of politics 17 months after she was knocked down, in October 2005.
On the night she was attacked, Kate had been out with friends to celebrate the end of term at Gumley House Convent School, where she was studying history, drama and chemistry, plus two AS level subjects.
As headgirl she had organised 'Leaver's Day' for her fellow students, including a special mass and party for the departing sixth-formers.
That evening she headed in to Twickenham with schoolgirl pals and enjoyed a few drinks at the Sorting Room and Hobgoblin pubs.
Kate then watched her friends perform at a karaoke night before heading home.
She said she was 'merry' but not drunk as she made her way home and had enjoyed the day.
After getting off the H22 bus in Heath Road just before 12.30am, she headed along Worton Road, Isleworth to make the short walk home.
It was just a few yards from the home she shared with mum Eileen and sister Ellen that she was attacked by Bellfield.
FAVOURITE PINK SHOES
Lying in the road, her favourite pink shoes which she had bought for herself as an 18th birthday treat strewn across the road, she made a desperate 999 call.
'He ran me over twice. The car stopped and checked me out and so I got on.
'I thought he was dodgy so after it turned round and ran me over and hit me again.
'I thought he was going to take me in his car, but when he saw that I knew he was dodgy he just ran me over,' she told the operator.
She then called her mum and begged her to come and find her.
Mrs Sheedy then called ex-husband James, who lived in nearby Hounslow, but remained close to his daughters and former partner.
They both raced to the scene and found Kate lying in the road in agony.
She told them: 'If they don't get here soon, I'm going to die.'
After a few days in hospital she told an investigating officer from her bed: 'Please get the bastard.'
Kate has made an almost complete physical recovery from her injuries but says she still 'feels the impact' when she thinks about the incident.
By late 2004 Bellfield had attacked at least five attacks on women, including the murders of Amelie and Marsha.
MILLY DOWLER
Police believe he had also abducted and killed Milly Dowler, 13, who was grabbed as she walked home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on March 21 2002.
Her body was found 20 miles away in Yateley Heath Woods, near Farnborough six months later.
Bellfield had lived near to her home and had access to a red Daewoo Nexia similar to the one used to abduct Milly and the car's number plate N503 GLT has been revealed for the first time today.
He was arrested for the murder three years ago while he was in custody awaiting trial for the bus stop killings.
But he was never charged because the CPS believed there was insufficient evidence to put before a jury.
Even when Bellfield was identified as the main suspect for Amelie's murder and detectives put him under 24-hour surveillance, the killer could not resist trying his luck.
With undercover detectives watching, Bellfield approached two teenage girls at a bus stop and began his by now all too familiar routine.
He asked a 14-year-old: 'Are you a virgin, I bet you are nice and tight. I'd love to get inside of you.'
Police feared he could kill again an on November 24 he was arrested.
CONFESSION
While in top-security Belmarsh on remand in 2005 he confessed to killing Amelie to fellow inmate Paul Jarvis.
He claimed she rejected his advances when he propositioned her over drugs as she was walking home.
It was then Bellfield told him men could 'do what they want to women.'
Jarvis told police: 'He is like a caveman. He treats women like dogs.'
Jailing Bellfield, Mrs Justice Ann Rafferty said: 'You have reduced three families to unimagined grief.
'The statements I have read and the words the court heard this morning were hard for many an experienced professional to bear.
Bellfield was told he will never be released from jail.
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Victim...Marsha McDonnell
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Victim....Kate Sheedy
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