SURVIVORS RELIVE BELLFIELD HAMMER ATTACKS WHILE EX

THREE people who were left for dead by savage Levi Bellfield have told of their ordeals.

All were beaten with hammers like the serial killer’s other victims but he was never brought to justice for the attacks.

Their chilling accounts come as the jailed monster is now accused of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell after an alleged cell confession.

One victim, Jo Collings, was Bellfield’s girlfriend when the Russells were murdered in 1996. She told how violence and rape were part of her daily life.

Jo, who lived with the stocky 6ft 1in bouncer for three years and had two of his kids, said: “Once, when I didn’t reply quick enough, he had a rubber mallet and, as I walked away, he hit me with it.

“The rapes, it was just target practice for him for what he went out and did to other people. The beatings, he would strangle you and get you to the point where you would actually black out.”

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One time she discovered a bin liner in her garage. It contained an old jacket, balaclava, kitchen knife and a magazine – with the faces of blondes scratched out.

“He went mad, absolutely mad,” she shuddered. “I got such a good hiding because how dare I touch any of his stuff or question him?”

Another time he boasted how he had raped a disabled girl on a car bonnet in a car park after tampering with a CCTV camera so it would not work.

“He would tell me because, in his mind, I was his slave,” she said. “I was nothing to him. He knew I would never and could never say anything about it. It made me feel as disgusting and vile as him.”

Jo said she was aware of a spate of attacks on women in South West London and the Thames Valley at the time but added: “You don’t want to believe that the person who’s committing these crimes is the father of your children.” She finally ditched him in 1997 after he attacked her while she was pregnant with their second child. He terrorised and stalked her for years afterwards – but her evidence finally helped to put him in jail.

She responded to a police appeal for information about a white van driver who had deliberately run down convent schoolgirl Kate Sheedy, 18, in Isleworth in 2004.

Jo, 47, explained: “I just wanted to try and help because I had years and years of guilt, of never being able to help or stop anything. I told them that my ex had a white van and he hated blondes.”

Bellfield, 49, who has 11 kids by five women, was jailed for the rest of his life in 2008 for the hammer murders of Marsha McDonnell, 19, in Hampton, and French student Amelie Delagrange, 22, in Twickenham Green, a nd attempting to kill Kate.

In 2011 he was found guilty of raping and strangling Milly Dowler, 13, in Walton- onThames in 2002. Again, evidence from Jo helped nail him.

But she fears his final murder tally may be in double figures and has spoken of her terrible guilt that she did not go to the police sooner.

Jo said: “Looking at him in court was pure hatred. I could have easily got up and punched him in the face because he’s created so much hurt and pain and so much destruction and he still thinks he’s something special.”

Another of the monster’s victims also told his story to Channel 5 documentary Levi Bellfield Left Me for Dead.

Peter Rodriguez said the killer ambushed him in 2004 when he refused to hide drugs at his mother’s home.

He recalled: “I can feel his hand on my shoulder. He pulls me back and then I see him with a mallet. “He’s tried to kneecap me to get me on the floor and I’ve stumbled. I passed out.” The cab driver, now 50, was guarded by cops in hospital after Bellfield got in by posing as a relative. He even got as far as Peter’s bed. Bellfield later had his former friend framed for drugs and sex offences although charges were later dropped. Peter’s injuries meant he could not work and his wife and two children went into hiding for their safety. He said: “I feel like he’s taken my identity away.” The year before that attack, lab technician Sarah Spurrell, then 23, was bludgeoned with a hammer in Hastings, East Sussex. Now 37, she said: “It was ever so quick. No footsteps, nothing. “It was t he third blow on the head that split the skin on my scalp. I saw the blood go on the car in front of me. “He was wearing a balaclava so I couldn’t see his face. “The eyes were evil, sheer heer evil.” Police suspect uspect Bellfield did it but the officer in charge harge has admitted “there was no appetite te within the police or CPS to pursue lesser offences”. DCI Colin Sutton utton said: “By the time we learnt of the he assault on Sarah Spurrell he’d been sentenced to three life tariffs ffs for murder and attempted murder.” rder.” For Jo the guilt is “horrific”. She added: “He He is in my head 24/7 and always ys will be.”

Levi Bellfield eld Left Me For Dead ead is on Channel 5 on Wednesday y at 10pm.