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Levi Bellfield reveals details of Milly Dowler's final hours

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VagueIdeas · 10/02/2016 17:26

Warning: it's a distressing read.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/12149716/Milly-Dowlers-family-Now-we-know-the-final-hours-of-Millys-life.html

Her poor family, being manipulated and made to suffer yet again by this monster. And he insisted on giving his "confession" to female officers, no doubt because he got a kick out of it.

And the list of unsolved murders and attacks that he's under suspicion for is truly chilling.

Prison is too good for him.

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EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 10/02/2016 21:55

We often say our heart goes out to, or heart breaks for etc. in traumatic circumstances.

I can't begin to imagine what Milly went through or what her whole family and her friends have gone through in the past years. Words can't begin to express it really can they Sad

I've never believed in the death penalty and yet some cases really do test my beliefs. Lifelong solitary and absolutely zero knowledge of any publicity for him and his thoughts would be a start.

Ludways · 10/02/2016 21:58

I'm sure they've released these details so they control it, they've taken the power away from Bellfield. So brave of them.

The policewomen who took his confession are to be admired, what a terrible job to have to do. I hope they've had the help and recognition they deserve.

expatinscotland · 10/02/2016 21:58

My daughter died, but she was not murdered so I cannot imagine how the Dowler family feels or how I'd feel if I were them so won't make any statements like, 'If it were me I wouldn't want to know.' I don't want to ever be in that position where it wasn't just speculation.

But I'm very sickened at the thought of this person ever being free and I really hope that doesn't happen.

MrsWhirling · 10/02/2016 21:59

to say the level of detail in the family is not critising the Dowlers, it's simply how I feel about what I read, and I am exposed to detailed of violent crime through my work every day. More power to the Dowlers, I think my previous posts make it clear how I feel about the overall way they have been treated, let alone dealing with their daughters death. MN is for opinion though isn't it. And I am respectful and kind.

AlanPacino · 10/02/2016 21:59

I will not read it, I won't read/watch such stuff. I won't give him satisfaction of knowing what he did. He will not have the power to inflict any feeling within me.

celeste83 · 10/02/2016 22:03

I think the authorities have already said he won't ever be released expat

forkhandles4candles · 10/02/2016 22:21

He has 11 children by 5 mothers. Jeez. Why in God's name would anyone go even near the vile wretch.

celeste83 · 10/02/2016 22:28

I never knew he had children Shock

KimmySchmidtsSmile · 10/02/2016 22:46

My heart goes out to the family.

  1. I think it is perfectly understandable to want the general public to know how heinous Bellfield is.
Although he should never be eligible for parole it is important that the public never lose sight of what he did and that life means life. Hindley tried to appeal her sentence but public feeling was always going to derail that and the same should go for this piece of scum. He killed three girls, tried to abduct two others, and potentially had 15 more victims.
  1. The death penalty would be too easy. Too quick. Too easy. Life should mean life and he should spend every single damned day doing manual labour for the rest of his life. That is what I would want - back breaking, hitting rocks, no perks, no attempt at rehabilitation. Every day. Every night, if inmates decide to deal out their own justice, that would be karma. Every night. Suicide watch so as not to take the easy way out.
  1. As for the "no comment" from his mum's partner or the denial, if true, from his mum. No.
I understand how awful it must be to try to make sense of it, to have given birth to a monster, to still love and visit who was once your baby. But no. I would have had more respect had she released a statement along the lines of: Words cannot express the horror, shame and pain of knowing what my son did to another human being. I cannot express how sorry I am for what he did. Whilst I cannot disown my son I want to make it clear I can never nor will ever try to condone, minimise or defend his actions and my heart goes out to the families he has hurt.
LilacSpunkMonkey · 10/02/2016 22:50

I can't bring myself to read that article. My own dd is 14 and it's too awful to contemplate.

I'm glad he's going to rot in prison.

Flowers for Millie's poor family and I hope they eventually manage to find some closure.

Needaninsight · 10/02/2016 22:50

I'm not even sure I believe him. He could be totally making all this up.

I'm also fairly sure that I wouldn't want to know all this as a mother. I don't see why the police informed the family of the details?

Very distressing and terrible terrible sad..and doesn't bring her back.

NetballHoop · 10/02/2016 23:00

This all happened very close to me and my family and I can't help feeling that it could have been us rather than the Dowlings who have suffered so much.

I will not ever support a death penalty. I will not lower myself to the same level as this sad, evil man.

NetballHoop · 10/02/2016 23:02

Dowlers, not Dowlings - autocorrect fail.

tribpot · 10/02/2016 23:06

I don't see why the police informed the family of the details?

Again, if the police were aware that an associate in prison was about to go public with the details, surely it was a kindness for them to tell the family rather than have them read about it on the front page of some tabloid?

As far as I can tell, the family have only made this public to stop some ex-con being able to exploit the story he has heard in prison. The tabloids would print it regardless of any lack of corroborating evidence, because as they demonstrated at the time and subsequently, they have no shame.

BillSykesDog · 10/02/2016 23:16

Bellfield's mother is almost as bad as him. She has been prosecuted for harassing the mother of his children and her grandchildren since he went to prison. His ex-girlfriends have given accounts of terrible abuse they suffered at his hands which his mother was very much complicit in.

I don't believe his account though, having read a lot about the case I think it's highly likely she was killed pretty much straight away in the flat and then he disposed of the evidence. The timings when his girlfriend said he came home don't fit with this account. Apparently the police don't believe it either.

He's just torturing the Dowlers.

GruntledOne · 10/02/2016 23:19

This case doesn't change my opposition to the death penalty. That would be to bring us down to his level. I want him in prison for the rest of his life, being denied freedom and being denied any opportunity to fulfil his vile urges, and knowing he will never be released.

Yes, if it were my daughter, frankly I would wish all the tortures of hell on him before a slow and painful death. But these things cannot be decided on the basis of my primitive revenge urges.

member · 10/02/2016 23:26

Missy Maker totally sums up what I wanted to say.

Insight the person Belfield told in prison was about to be released. Given that he'd shared what he'd been told with the authorities whilst inside, there was a real risk he'd repeat that on the outside. However difficult it must have been for the Dowlers to hear from the police, I'm pretty sure that they'd have rather found out that way than from some tabloid using sensationalist language & lurid headlines.

Kreacherelf · 10/02/2016 23:32

That poor family. So many lives ruined by one evil scumbag.

WhereTheFuckIsMyFuckingCoat · 10/02/2016 23:48

Northern, have the police said that they don't believe this latest confession? I wonder if the poor family do too?

Do you have serious doubts that he was responsible for this? As in, claimed it for notoriety? I've not read enough to form a serious opinion yet.

My heart goes out to the Dowler's so much, this latest info just adds insult to their already horrific injuries. Sad

GinBunny · 10/02/2016 23:52

3littlefrogs It was me who posted about having my car clamped by him. As I think I said at the time, he was very charming, friendly and with hindsight I can see manipulative. I haven't read the article, I've seen the headlines today and can't bring myself to read them. I haven't even read most of this thread.

14 hours. Jesus, the poor poor child. Sick fucker. If it is true, because I do agree with the little that I have read of this thread that he is doing it for kicks and attention and would imagine it is exaggerated at the least. The story he told me at the time about working extra hours for his loving family was clearly fabricated, I wouldn't be at all surprised if this is too.

BillSykesDog · 11/02/2016 07:16

wherethefuck, I don't think there's any doubt at all he killed Milly, just whether or not these claims about how he did it are true.

As I said above, it doesn't fit in with the timeline that other witnesses have given on his whereabouts that day, and some of the things he claims (repeatedly getting her in and out of the car in busy areas in daylight) are just implausible. He says he killed Milly at 6am the following day, but his girlfriend says he was back at her home at about 3am and went to bed and had already stripped the other flat of a lot of evidence (eg, he was covering his tracks, not killing someone). Plus he was seen elsewhere (by Milly's uncle) whilst supposedly he was in the flat torturing her. It just doesn't add up.

WhoTheFuckIsSimon · 11/02/2016 07:28

Wouldn't suprise ME if he's made the events of the day up just to torture her family further, get attention for himself and get his rocks off telling female officers in great detail about what supposedly happened.

Feenie · 11/02/2016 07:35

I hope so Sad

Adeleslostbeehive · 11/02/2016 07:36

I can completely understand why her family released the information. I would do the same. I don't see the problem with reading it?

I don't believe in the death penalty but wouldn't care whether someone like him lived or got beaten to death by a prison guard or something.

But state sanctioned murder- what's the point? He'll be locked up for life, he won't murder another young girl. What real difference would it make if he were dead? He's just one man, no reason to talk about bringing back the death penalty. Personally i think people have this debate because it makes them feel "something" has been done. But that really isn't important is it? What's important is what's already happened and that can't be reversed.

wannaBe · 11/02/2016 07:48

I haven't read it and I don't intend to. And I disagree that it should have been released at all, especially given the fact that there is very likely doubt over its validity and by releasing it the media have given a platform to this vile individual whose name shouldn't have a place in public mention.

While on the one hand I can see why there is an argument that if it hadn't been released by the authorities some other inmate would have sold it to the tabloids, (although you have to wonder why the tabloids would want to pay another dysfunctional member of society for his tales from the inside), surely given that high profile footballers are able to take out injunctions to prevent their names appearing in the media, it would have been possible for the judiciary to take out an injunction to prevent any detail of Milly Dowler's last hours being published.

This is not in the public interest, and even if the family felt that it needed to be released, the fact that there is potential doubt surely gives LB a platform he shouldn't be given. In this instance I think that the need to not give someone like him who will clearly use his position in any way he can to continue to torture others should override the wishes of the family to give him that platform by making what is potentially a fabricated but horrific account public.