Predator--The true story of Levi Bellfield, the man who murdered Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange by John McShane

Author:John McShane [John McShane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843588481
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2011-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

On 19 October, the first woman to have been attacked by the bus-stop stalker and who survived to tell the story, Anna-Maria Rennie, gave evidence.

She told how she had been living with her then boyfriend Richard Lewison when, probably crying, she left after a row. After a while, she paused by a bus stop for about five minutes then continued walking along before turning around to come back. She spotted a man coming towards her and, feeling uneasy about him, she crossed the road. Her attention was attracted by the driver of a passing car: ‘Somehow, I can’t remember why but we had a conversation for about ten minutes.’ She remembered him asking her if she wanted a lift home which she declined. ‘After the conversation I started to go off and while he was still walking with me I must have turned around. He put his arm around me. I screamed, he had his hand over my mouth and picked me up off the floor. He had his left arm around me and his right hand across my mouth. He was very strong. He was walking me towards the car which was parked in a layby with the back passenger door open. I put up a big struggle. I was using everything trying to get my arms free, kicking, anything I could to get away. It was hard. I was being held very strongly towards him and the more force I was using to get away, the more pressure there was being put on me to keep there.

‘He shouted, “You’re a whore! You’re a slut!”’ Her attacker lifted her up and walked to the car. Anna-Maria said, ‘I’m kicking, moving, screaming as much as I can to get away. Just before he gets to the car he lets go.’ She said she had been shown various men on a video line-up, and that she had asked to see two of them again. She then chose Bellfield and said, ‘He was the man.’ She said the attack had ‘changed who I am. I have always been a very open, confident person and for a long time afterwards it destroyed that. I was very withdrawn and quiet, I’m not so confident, I’m a lot warier.

The jury also heard of the night that Marsha McDonnell was found dying in the street near her home. Father-of-two David Fuller was woken late at night in February 2003 by a ‘loud thud’ which sounded like a car door slamming in front of his house but saw nothing unusual as he looked out of his bedroom window in Priory Road, Hampton. He began drifting back to sleep about 15 to 20 minutes later but heard moaning and spotted a pool of blood by a pillar near his front garden. He woke his wife, Bernadette. She told the jury, ‘I could see a pool of liquid running down the pavement. When I looked again there was a hand stretched out from the pool so we knew there was somebody there, not just blood from the pillar.

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