Bellfield confessed to Russell killings in jail, claim convicted man’s lawyers

killer Levi Bellfield has made a “very detailed” confession to the brutal hammer murders of a mother and daughter, lawyers acting for a man twice convicted of the killings claim.

Michael Stone is serving three life sentences for bludgeoning Lin Russell and her daughter Megan (6) to death in an attack in Kent in 1996 in which her other daughter Josie (9) suffered severe head injuries and the family’s dog Lucy was killed.

But now lawyers representing Stone (57), who has always maintained his innocence, said Bellfield allegedly made a confession, which included details

From left: Levi Bellfield; Lin Russell with daughter Josie, and Milly Dowler

not made public, to another prisoner.

Bellfield was jailed in 2011 after being found guilty of abducting and killing 13-year-old Milly Dowler following a trial at the Old Bailey.

He was already in jail for the murders of Amelie Delagrange (22) and Marsha McDonnell (19), the daughter of a music industry figure from Co Fermanagh.

Bellfield’s lawyer was unavailable to comment.

But Bellfield, who is serving two whole life prison sentences for the murders of the two women and the schoolgirl, has denied making any such confession, saying in audio from behind bars that his accusSERIAL er is a “known fantasist”. At a London Press conference held yesterday, Stone’s solicitor Paul Bacon said: “We have now received evidence of a full confession by Levi Bellfield to the Russell murders.

“In the confession, Bellfield describes how he came across Lin Russell and her two children, how he attacked them with a hammer and his motivation for the killing.”

Mr Bacon added that they had been contacted by an “independent witness” who claims to have seen Bellfield at the scene and had made a statement to Kent Police a month after the killings, and also had forensic evidence which they say “corroborates” the confession.