Milly Dowler murder: Levi Bellfield convicted

Convicted double killer found guilty of abducting and murdering 13-year-old schoolgirl Levi Bellfield, the convicted double killer with a hatred of women, has been unanimously found guilty of abducting and murdering Milly Dowler. An Old Bailey jury on Thursday found the 13-year-old was snatched by the former club doorman while she was walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames nine years ago. Bellfield was living just 50 yards from where Milly was last seen alive on 21 March 2002. Her badly decomposed and unclothed body was found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire. Bellfield, 43, is already serving life for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, all of which took place within three years of the murder of Milly. Milly disappeared “in the blink of an eye” after stopping off for some chips with schoolfriends, then setting off alone on the one-mile walk home from Walton station shortly after 4pm. Bellfield had denied her kidnap and murder. The jury is still deliberating the attempted abduction of another schoolgirl, Rachel Cowles. The verdict came after seven hours deliberation by the jury of four women and seven men. As the foreman read out the guilty verdicts, Milly’s mother Sally, 51, put her face to her hands and sobbed, while Milly’s father, Robert, 59, brushed away tears. Her sister Gemma, 25, broke into hysterical sobbing, and physically collapsed outside the courtroom, wailing and shouting as police and court officials sought to help her and the matron at the Old Bailey was called. Bellfield showed no reaction. . Milly Dowler Crime Caroline Davies guardian.co.uk

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