Urgent inquiry after serial killer Bellfield becomes engaged to prison visitor

SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield has become engaged to a female visitor who he plans to marry in jail.

The Government said it had launched an urgent review into whether it can stop “evil monster” Bellfield from marrying his fiancee, who is described in the Sun newspaper as a “besotted” blondehaired woman in her 40s.

Bellfield is one of a handful of prisoners currently serving a wholelife term, meaning he will never be released, after being convicted of the murders of schoolgirl Milly Dowler, 19-year-old Marsha Mcdonnell, and French student Amelie Delagrange.

Prisons minister Victoria Atkins described Bellfield as “an evil, evil monster who has left a trail of despair and grief in his wake” while Downing Street said the Prime Minister was “sickened and appalled” by the news of the intended marriage.

She told ITV’S Good Morning Britain: “My heart goes out to the families because, yet again, this appalling human being is on the front pages (of newspapers) and they’re having to think about him.”

But she did not say, when asked, whether she could actually stop the wedding going ahead, citing Article 12 of the Human Rights Act and the right to marry.

She added: “I’m appalled that someone like this can make an application to get married – we’re looking into it very carefully. Watch this space please.”

Boris Johnson’s spokesman that while the Government’s intended new British Bill of Rights was designed to prevent “abuses” of the Human Rights Act, he could not be “definitive” on whether it will address the issues in the Bellfield case.

The spokesman added: “Everyone, including the Prime Minister, is disgusted by the reporting we have seen today.”

The 53-year-old killer would need the permission of the governor at HMP Frankland to marry at the category A prison.

Rules state the prison governor can raise an objection to the facility being named on the notice of marriage as the place where the service is carried out.

The governor must discuss with the National Offender Management Service if there are concerns that any security risks cannot reasonably be overcome, or if there are concerns that either party is getting married under duress.