[6] On both occasions, the judge imposed a whole life order, meaning that Bellfield will serve the sentence without the possibility of parole.
[19] In an interview with the media, Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton of the Metropolitan Police, who led the murder investigation, said of Bellfield: "When we started dealing with him he came across as very jokey, like he's your best mate.
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.
[20] Amélie Delagrange was seen by CCTV cameras which showed her walking towards Twickenham Green after she missed her stop on the bus home.
In August 2009, Surrey Police submitted a dossier to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) containing evidence of Bellfield's involvement in the murder of Dowler.
[23] Kate Sheedy, then aged 18, was deliberately run over as she crossed the road near an entrance to an industrial estate in Isleworth on 28 May 2004, although after her mum called an ambulance she survived [24] with multiple injuries and consequently spent several weeks in hospital.
[27][28] It was believed Morris left school because she had forgotten her raincoat that morning, choosing to return home to change into dry clothes.
[30] She was discovered face down 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.
[45] Described as an "attractive and vivacious" middle-class housewife, she had died yards from her home after being hit several times in the face by an unidentified weapon.
[48] The circumstances of Gold's murder were somewhat mysterious: police were unsure why she had dressed as if for a business meeting just before she left her home at around 5:30 a.m. on the day she was killed, 20 October 1990.
[49][50] She 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.
[49] There was no sign of sexual assault and the motive also appeared not to be robbery as her handbag and jewellery were left untouched, although her very distinctive chain which she wore round her neck had been taken.
[50] Gold did not usually wake up early and her job did not involve working on Saturdays, so investigators theorised that she had arranged a meeting with someone and knew the killer.
[50] Her 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.
A 2017 BBC Two programme, The Chillenden Murders, in which a team of independent experts re-examined the evidence, supported the idea Bellfield should be investigated for the killings.
He [Bellfield] never left my side, all day and all night, so there's absolutely no way he could have got from Twickenham, where I lived, or Windsor, where I kept my horses, to Kent, done what they say he did, and got back without me not knowing he was there.
[55][56][57] However, as well as his former wife previously saying it was not possible that he could have been in Kent on the day, a member of Stone's legal team also later admitted that there was nothing in Bellfield's statement which was not already in the public domain, suggesting he could have fabricated it using known evidence.
[58] The Metropolitan Police previously investigated allegations that Bellfield was involved in the Russell murders and found no evidence to support the claims.
[68][69][70] Shenkoya was last seen getting off a bus in Haven Green outside a Burger King restaurant near to Ealing Broadway Underground Station in the early evening.
She was not seen again and although Shenkoya's case is believed to have been related to Chau's disappearance,[71] Bellfield has not been publicly identified as a suspect in her presumed murder.
In January 2004, 23-year-old Sarah Spurrell was struck three times with a hammer in a dark street in the East Sussex town of Hastings.
Spurrell survived the attack due to the intervention of a bystander and later informed the police, but was allegedly told that they lacked the resources to investigate the assault.
[73][74] In March 2023 Bellfield, who was named as a suspect in the case in 2008,[72] reportedly confessed to the attack on Spurrell and several other attempted murders and assaults.
[65] Spurrell was not made aware of Bellfield's confession until she was informed by journalists working for ITV News, for which she criticised the police.
[72] Police were informed in early 2015 that Bellfield, in his cell at HM Prison Wakefield, had admitted to unsolved rape and murder cases.
On 9 November 2016, they issued a statement which said: "All lines of inquiry have now been exhausted and the decision has been taken to close this investigation as there is no evidence to link the individual to any case for which he has not already been convicted.
The trial of Bellfield on another charge, that of the attempted abduction of an 11-year-old girl who was offered a lift in the Walton area by a man in a red car on the day preceding this murder, was abandoned due to newspapers publishing prejudicial material.
[84][85] On 27 January 2016, Surrey Police announced that Bellfield had admitted, for the first time, abducting, raping and murdering Dowler after being interviewed about whether he had an accomplice.
[89] The third episode of the eight-part series Making a Monster, commissioned by the Crime & Investigation channel, focuses on Bellfield's character and motivations.
Colin Sutton and his original team of Metropolitan Police detectives described everything from the moment Bellfield was identified through to his arrest, trial and conviction.