Kentish Gazette Canterbury & District
Notorious killer Bellfield
‘It is my hope that by making this statement a line can be drawn under my suspicion of committing the 1996 Chillenden crimes’
Serial killer Levi Bellfield is reported to have torn apart his own alibi for the brutal Chillenden murders, while trying to show how he wasn’t involved.
The triple murderer, who is serving two wholelife terms also at HMP Frankland, has admitted being in the area on the day in 1996.
According to reports, in a 15-page statement passed to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC), the 53-year-old reveals he drove a car similar to the one seen near the scene and flew back from holiday to have it destroyed in the days after the crime.
The statement goes on to detail how he twice visited Cherry Garden Lane where Lin, six-year-old Megan and dog Lucy were beaten to death and how he was going out with a woman whose dad ran a pub in the village.
He writes: “I wish to set the record straight. It is my hope that by making this statement a line can be drawn under my suspicion of committing the 1996 Chillenden crimes.”
In 2008, he was convicted of murdering Amélie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha Mcdonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of 18-year-old Kate Sheedy.
Three years later he was found guilty of the 2002 murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler.
He has suffered from mental health issues in prison and has previously said he had no links to Kent before 2002. He addresses the coincidences in the statement and says he is speaking out as they would eventually resurface.
Former detective Colin Sutton, who headed up the team which caught Bellfield, said the statement was “surprising”. But knowing Bellfield as I do, this could be him playing mind games.”