AMELIE WAS TO STAY IN UK TO BE WITH ME’

AMELIE Delagrange had decided to stay on in England just days before she was murdered by monster Bellfield, her former boyfriend reveals today.

The warped former bouncer killed the French student in 2004 in an almost identical attack to that on Marsha Mcdonnell in 2003.

Shortly before her murder, she had phoned her parents to say she was extending her stay in London to be with boyfriend Olivier Lenfant.

Speaking for the first time in over a decade, Olivier, 40, said: “Amelie’s mother later told me that she’d called home to say she wanted to stay on in London for another five or six months to see where our relationship went.

“She told her mum that she had found love.”

Bellfield attacked Amelie, 22, with a lump hammer on Twickenham Green, South West London. She died later that night in hospital.

Heartbroken Olivier, who she had been dating for two months, visited the murder site for 13 years. He revealed: “Every year, I’d plan holidays around the anniversary. I’d lay white roses where Amelie died because that’s the flowers I laid after a memorial walk in her honour shortly after. I’d carry on our conversation.

“I’d tell her what I was doing, how my life was going, that I had a new partner and a new baby.”

He said watching the show would be like “living it all over again” and that he blamed himself for not seeing her the night she was murdered.

Surreal

“The last conversation I’d had with Amelie was ‘See you tomorrow’ but there was no tomorrow,” he said.

In tonight’s episode, police find a crumpled piece of paper among Amelie’s belongings that has Olivier’s number on it.

He said: “They said she had been violently attacked and was critically ill. By 10am the next morning she had died.

“It was so surreal. I didn’t sleep at first, then I just kept replaying our last conversation in my dreams.”

For three years, Olivier continued to tell people he was in a relationship because he could not come to terms with Amelie’s death.