The Bus Stop Killer: Milly Dowler, Her Murder and the Full Story of the Sadistic Serial Killer Levi Bellfield by Wansell Geoffrey

Author:Wansell, Geoffrey [Wansell, Geoffrey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141968193
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2011-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

13. The Killing Ground

‘It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life that others have made.’

George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methusela

The Rodriguez incident left Levi Bellfield nervous, very nervous indeed. Part of him felt guilt that he had been involved in the fight that had seen ‘Spanish Pete’ hit over the head with an axe and stabbed three times in the stomach and knees with a screwdriver, and part felt relief that the man he had used to fetch and carry drugs for him wasn’t able to tell the police exactly what had happened – as he was in a coma.

The six weeks Rodriguez remained unconscious became some of the most anxious in Bellfield’s life, not least because he suspected that the police were certain he had played a much more significant role in the attack than he had admitted to them. The anxiety only added to the sense of dread that had been gripping him for months, making his panic attacks even worse.

Nevertheless Bellfield did everything in his power to behave as normally as possible. The by now sixteen-year-old Terri Carroll and he couldn’t go back to Crosby Close, because it was an official police crime scene, so they went to live together in a hotel on the perimeter road north of Heathrow airport. It was familiar, and relatively cheap, but it was close to Little Benty, and he had every reason to want to be nearby. Emma Mills was about to give birth.

On 17 July 2004 Mills duly bore Bellfield a third child, a daughter they named Georgina, and who went back to Little Benty with her mother after leaving the hospital maternity unit. Mills and her children were still very much a family even though they didn’t see a great deal of the man they all called ‘Dad’. Bellfield would go and visit them on a couple of days a week, usually in the early evening after clamping and before he went off to work as a doorman and bouncer.

On the surface, as the summer of 2004 deepened, Bellfield’s life continued relatively normally. He and his team, often accompanied by Carroll, would go wheel-clamping during the day at a vast range of sites across west London and beyond, while in the evenings he would still work the doors at Royales in Uxbridge or at The Sorting Room in Twickenham. He saw no reason to change his habits. After all there were still drugs to supply and teenage girls to be seduced.

Beneath the surface, however, Bellfield’s mental and emotional disintegration was gathering pace. The memories of the attack on Kate Sheedy at the end of May, the battle with Spanish Pete Rodriguez barely a week later, the subsequent police investigation and the fact that they were still examining his white Ford Courier van had all contrived to accelerate the mental ‘break’.

He kept telling Noel Moran, ‘I’m fucked, utterly fucked.’

By now Bellfield was a man on the very edge,

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