Sunday People

SICK KILLER’S MILLY APPEAL

Deluded Bellfield claims new evidence will clear him

- By OR by Amy-Clare Martin

NOT SIMON Cowell’s son Eric has got a taste for bawling out X Factor hopefuls just like his dad.

Former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinge­r took the risk of auditionin­g for the three-year-old during a filming break – and was told: “You’re not good enough.”

Judge Nicole, 39, was said to be “in fits of laughter”. An insider said: “Nicole couldn’t believe what Eric said to her. She thought it was hilarious. rious.

“Everyone had a giggle. Eric proved he’s rightight a chip off the old block.”

Simon, 57, was branded Mr Nasty for his tongueongu­elashings during early series of The X Factor. TWISTED serial killer Levi Bellfield is piling fresh hell on Milly Dowler’s family by challengin­g his conviction for the schoolgirl’s murder.

The monster is claiming CCTV footage and a new witness will prove he did not kill the 13-year-old. She was found raped and strangled in woods six months after disappeari­ng on her way home from school.

Bellfield, 49, aims to contest the agreed facts in his case and question evidence about Milly’s phone as well as a mobile phone expert’s testimony.

He is sure his case will go to the Court of Appeal after he submits the “significan­t new evidence” in the next eight weeks.

The killer’s appeal bid will heap fresh torment on Milly’s heartbroke­n family. Her sister Gemma and mum Sally were driven to the brink of killing thems el v es after Milly’s abduction, rape and murder in 2002.

And in Gemma’s book My Sister Milly she revealed how she and Sally considered a suicide pact if Bellfield had been found not guilty. Bellfield, who also killed two women, is serving two whole life sentences at Durham’s high security HMP Frankland.

He is claiming that a key prosecutio­n witness has admitted giving false evidence in court after being “coached” by police.

Bellfield, who has converted to Islam and calls himself Yusuf Rahim, called the Old Bailey trial a travesty.

He said: “I sat listening to the opening speech surroundin­g the Amanda Dowler [Milly’s real name] case in disbelief.”

The judge called him a “cruel and pitiless killer” when he was found guilty in 2011.

Former bouncer Bellfield has also been named by fellow inmate Michael Stone, 57, as the beast responsibl­e esponsible for the murdersers of Lin Russell, 45, and nd her daughter Megan, an, six, in Chillenden, Kent, in 1996.

Stone is servingerv­ing life for the brutal hammer attack, ck, but claims he iss innocent and Bellfield is the real killer.

 ??  ?? RINGER: Dad Simon is so like his Eric ZINGER: Son Eric SINGER: Nicole failed ‘audition’
RINGER: Dad Simon is so like his Eric ZINGER: Son Eric SINGER: Nicole failed ‘audition’
 ??  ?? MURDERED: Milly Dowler
MURDERED: Milly Dowler
 ??  ?? MONSTER: Bellfield is serving life sentences
MONSTER: Bellfield is serving life sentences

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