Manhunt--How I Brought Serial Killer Levi Bellfield to Justice by Colin Sutton

Author:Colin Sutton [Colin Sutton]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781789460377
Publisher: John Blake Publishing
Published: 2018-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

I knew we could prove Bellfield’s van was the killer’s vehicle. Analysis of the CCTV from buses and static cameras in the area of Twickenham Green showed us that the white Ford Courier van was in the area from 9.32pm to 10.09pm on 19 August. It had spent around forty-five minutes just cruising around an area of less than a square mile, during which we were able to pinpoint it no fewer than sixteen times. It was then parked by the Green, about fifty yards from where Amélie was killed, for about three minutes at exactly the time she was attacked, before driving swiftly away to the south, along Hampton Road. What was needed was to name the driver, so I pondered how to prove it was Bellfield behind the wheel. We had no forensics, no van, no live witnesses and the CCTV was nowhere near clear enough to see any detail of the driver. So I strolled past the room dividing screen and in to the intelligence unit to chat things through with DS Clive Grace, recently promoted to be my Intelligence Manager. What about his mobile phone: could that give us what we needed? For that to work, I would need two things: first, to prove that one of Bellfield’s phones was active in the Twickenham Green area at the relevant time; and second, that it was really him who had possession of it. Hadn’t Jo Collings told us that, Bellfield being very aware of what could be done with mobile-phone records, always switched his off if he knew he would be out committing crime? I was confident Clive would know, almost certainly without checking, if we had any data from the service providers which would help.

Clive did not disappoint me – he genuinely never did. He told me that telephone data showed that the landline at Little Benty had called Bellfield’s main mobile number at 9.37pm on 19 August 2004. This was potentially a great help to us as, when we brought up the huge unwieldy spreadsheet of cell-site data on his oversized screen, it told us that, when his phone was called, it was transmitting to a mast in Fourth Cross Road, Twickenham, which had a coverage area including Twickenham Green and the surrounding roads. This was exactly when and where the CCTV analysis had shown the van to be, cruising on its hunt for a victim. We needed, though, to shut down any possibility of Bellfield being able to explain this away. It was still open to him to say that he had lost his phone, or lent the van to somebody else, or even both. To make this the clinching piece of evidence it had the potential to be, we needed to develop it; to put the phone in his hands, in the van. The interesting thing was that the call had hit the mobile and then been sent immediately to voicemail. It was easy to imagine that Bellfield – if he were in

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