Raab plans law to stop killer Bellfield marrying in jail

MURDERER Levi Bellfield is to be banned from marrying in jail under new laws to be announced next month.

Dominic Raab, the Justice Secretary, is to introduce legislation that will prevent anyone serving a whole-life term from marrying. He said it was “inappropriate” for killers such as Levi Bellfield to be able to marry in prison and pledged: “I’m going to change the law.”

The move has been prompted by a request to marry in jail by Bellfield, 54, who is serving two whole-life sentences for the murder of three women, including 13-year-old Milly Dowler.

He applied to marry his girlfriend last year, and has reportedly made a bid for legal aid to challenge the decision.

Mr Raab, who intends to unveil a Victims Bill that would ban those on whole-life sentences from getting married, told LBC: “I don’t think it is appropriate and, both within the realm of the existing powers .... I think it is wrong.

“There is a question around the risk around anyone who would marry an offender as egregious as, in this case, Levi Bellfield.”