Levi Bellfield
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| “ | He has a massive ego to feed, he thinks he's God's gift to everyone. He drives around in his car, feels a bit 'whatever' and sees some young blonde girl. Young blonde girl says 'go away' and he thinks 'you dare to turn down Levi Bellfield, you're worth nothing' and then she gets a whack over the head. It is shown in the case of Kate Sheedy. She was smart enough to think she didn't like the look of his car and crosses the road. He thinks 'You think you're so clever' and whoosh, he runs her over. | „ |
| ~ DCI Colin Sutton about Bellfield. |
Levi Bellfield, AKA The Bus Stop Killer, (born Levi Rabetts on 17 May 1968) is an English serial killer and sex offender. He is currently the only person to have been sentenced to a whole-life order twice.
Biography edit
Levi Rabetts was born in London on 17 May 1968. When he was ten his father Joseph died of leukaemia, causing him to revert to his mother's maiden name of Bellfield. From 1981 - 2002, he was convicted of nine criminal offences such as burglary and assaulting a police officer, serving around one year in prison overall.
On 21 March 2002 13-year-old Milly Dowler disappeared after getting off a train near to Bellfield's home. Six months later she was found dead, having been raped and murdered by Bellfield.
On 4 February 2003 Bellfield attacked a woman named Marsha McDonnell in Hampton and beat her over the head with a blunt instrument just after she got off the 111 bus. McDonnell died of her injuries two days later.
On 28 May 2004 Bellfield was driving around in Isleworth when he saw a woman named Kate Sheedy crossing the road. His immediate response was to run her over, breaking several of her bones. Sheedy survived the attack but spent several days in hospital, later testifying against Bellfield at his 2008 trial.
On 19 August 2004 a 22-year-old French student named Amélie Delagrange was found in Twickenham with severe head injuries. She died of brain trauma the same night. Police noted the similarities to Marsha McDonnell's murder 18 months earlier, suspecting the same offender killed both women.
Bellfield was arrested on 22 November 2004 on suspicion of the murder of Amélie Delagrange after police linked a van seen driving near the scene of the attack to him, subsequently confessing to the murder. He was also charged with several other counts of assault and rape relating to women being stalked, beaten with hammers and raped around London after he was identified by the victims. Due to the similarities between his M.O. and Marsha McDonnell's attacker he was charged with McDonnell's murder as well. He was also picked out in an identity parade by Kate Sheedy, a teenager named Anna-Marie Rennie who he had attempted to abduct and a woman named Irma Dragoshi who he had assaulted.
On 25 February 2008, three years after his arrest, Bellfield was convicted of two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder, with the jury failing to reach a verdict on the other charges. He received a whole-life order, the British equivalent of life without parole. Bellfield was not in court to hear the sentence, as he had refused to attend due to claimed unfair press coverage.
In the immediate aftermath of his trial he was named as the prime suspect in the Milly Dowler case. After an extensive investigation his then-girlfriends car was linked to the scene. Bellfield was charged and convicted for the murder and received a second whole-life order. He was also initially charged with attempting to abduct a young girl who an unidentified man had attempted to entice into his car the previous day, but this charge was left on file due to prejudicial media coverage. He allegedly confessed to the murder after his conviction, although he denies this.
Bellfield is suspected of many more unsolved rapes and murders, having confessed to a number of these crimes in HM Prison Wakefield. However, an investigation found no evidence linking him to these crime, concluding that Bellfield had lied to cause the victim's families pain. Michael Stone, the man convicted of the 1996 murders of Lin and Megan Russell, also claims Bellfield confessed to these murders; however he had an alibi for this attack.
Trivia edit
- He is a narcissistic psychopath.
- Since his conviction Bellfield has reportedly converted to Islam and changed his name to "Yusuf Rahim".