Levi Belfield’s life in jail today, from proposals to jobs | UK | News
A new documentary series investigating the crimes of serial killer and sex offender Levi Bellfield has been released. The Amazon series stars DCI Colin Sutton, who leads the team investigating Bellfield’s crimes.
In 2008, Bellfield was convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell in 2003, Amélie Delagrange in 2004, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy in 2004, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. In 2011 Bellfield was also found guilty of murdering Milly Dowler in 2002. In both cases, the judges sentenced him to life imprisonment; This means Bellfield will serve the sentence without the possibility of parole. He is the first prisoner to receive two life sentences. Bellfield was also charged with three counts of rape, one count of kidnapping and one count of assault, and confessed to the murders of Lin and Meghan Russell in 1996. He was investigated in connection with numerous other attacks and murders but was never charged.
As of 2020, Bellfield is located at HMP Frankland in County Durham, which houses some of the UK’s most dangerous criminals in maximum security.
Bellfield frequently made false confessions regarding other unsolved crimes. Police revealed that the man may have lied to cause pain to the victims’ families.
The killer hit headlines after getting engaged to a female pen pal and visitor who said she did not judge him for his past and was “not a monster”.
The killer began corresponding with the middle-aged woman from her cell, exchanging gifts and poems, before speaking on the phone.
The unnamed woman in her 40s, who described herself as “very educated and intelligent”, visited him in prison, where they “kissed and hugged” and he proposed.
Although he had previously won the right to appeal a governor’s veto of his prison wedding, his application was ultimately blocked by changes to the law.
Under the Victims and Prisoners Act, the Government officially banned life-sentenced prisoners from marrying or forming civil partnerships behind bars.
In 2020, it was reported that he lost the privileges of watching television and wearing his own clothes in prison after getting into a fight with two other inmates.
It was claimed that the former bouncer was placed in isolation and boasted of beating the duo who provoked him because of his past crimes.
In 2018, reports emerged that Bellfield had taken a job as a garbage man at the prison, sorting recycling and garbage.
