Inside Levi Bellfield’s sick engagement as girlfriend buys HIM a ring – but he can’t wear it
INTIMATE details of evil Levi Bellfield's engagement have been revealed - including how his jail cell is plastered with racy snaps of his lover.
The serial killer has sparked fury after getting engaged to a besotted blonde while serving a whole-life term for at least three murders.
The Sun can now reveal the vile details of their engagement - including how Bellfield, 53, got down on one knee in front of stunned prison staff.
His fiancée, who we are not identifying, started corresponding with the fiend after he wrote to her two years ago and she is now a regular visitor.
She travels to see Milly Dowler’s murderer once or twice a week for two hours at a time at HMP Frankland in Co Durham.
They sit opposite each other at a table and mingle with other cons and their friends and families in a hall at the prison.
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It was at one of these visits that Bellfield proposed out of the blue and placed a ring on her finger, in front of shocked prison staff.
She has also bought him an engagement ring, but Bellfield is not allowed to wear it until given permission to marry.
The lovestruck monster has plastered his cell walls with pictures of the blonde - including one of her in lingerie and the words, “Come to bed Levi”.
Bellfield, who had several partners before being jailed but never wed, has also written love letters and poems to the woman.
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A source said: “Bellfield proposed to the lady in the traditional way on one of her visits — and was cock-a-hoop when she said yes.
“He has been bragging about it to other inmates and telling people how he has a fiancée. It is all odd and quite disturbing.
“It is obviously hard to see what the woman sees in him, especially considering what he has done and the fact he is never getting out.
“But Bellfield is deadly serious about her and has looked into the legal issues around marrying in jail.
“It is legal but he fears the jail authorities could make life difficult for him — so he has already consulted his solicitor about it.”
Prisoners have the right to marry in jail under the 1983 Marriages Act and the Human Rights Act.
A wedding ceremony would take place in the prison’s chapel, after which Bellfield would be allowed a two-hour visit from his new wife.
It would be closely supervised by prison staff and the fiend would not have conjugal rights.
But the planned nuptials could now be blocked after Prisons Minister Victoria Atkins today vowed to do "everything in her power" to stop Bellfield tying the knot.
'DEPRAVED'
She said allowing the killer to get hitched would rub salt in the wounds of the families left broken by the "evil, evil monster".
Ms Atkins added: "It is absolutely appalling. An application I'm told has been put in.
"This came to light last night, but it has not yet been considered.
"And when such an application is put in, then governors will consider it.
"And I have the I've asked for an immediate urgent report into what is happening."
Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland also slammed the revelation.
He said: “People will be rightly shocked to hear that a man capable of such depraved crimes and is rightly imprisoned is able to form a relationship of this kind."
While David Spencer, director of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “This marriage is an insult to the families of Bellfield’s many victims.
“Given the magnitude and nature of his brutal crimes, it will turn many taxpayers’ stomachs to think that their money is being used to fund such a grotesque union.
“If it is in any way possible, the Ministry of Justice should intervene to stop this ceremony from proceeding.”
PURE EVIL
Bellfield was convicted in 2008 of killing Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22, plus the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, who he deliberately ran over.
He followed his murder victims in areas he knew well in South West London and launched vicious hammer attacks.
When police arrested Bellfield — who has at least seven children with at least three women — they found he had violently abused three ex-partners.
Nine serious offences of assault and sexual assault on them were left on file.
In 2011, Bellfield was also convicted of the 2002 murder of Surrey schoolgirl Milly, who he abducted in Walton on Thames.
The Sun told in February how Bellfield — suspected of scores of other attacks — had also sensationally confessed to the 1996 hammer murders of Lin Russell, 45, and her daughter Megan, six, in Kent.
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Michael Stone, 61, had been convicted of the killings in 1998.
A Prison Service spokesperson said: “An application has been received and is being considered in the usual way.”
