Milly: ‘New evidence on suspect’
POLICE investigating the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler have obtained dramatic new evidence, sources said yesterday.
Officers will submit a huge dossier concerning prime suspect Levi Bellfield to prosecutors within a week.
The convicted killer is suspected of murdering Milly, 13, in March 2002.
Her death remains one of Britain’s most notorious unsolved crimes.
She vanished while walking home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey. Six months later her skeletal remains were found 30 miles away by mushroom pickers in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.
Officers have been painstakingly investigating whether there is a case against Bellfield since he was arrested by the Met in November 2004 over other matters.
Bellfield, 41, was told last year that he will die in jail after he was found guilty of murdering students Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22.
He was also convicted of the attempted murder of schoolgirl Kate Sheedy, 18. All of the women were attacked near bus stops in south-west London.
The ex-bouncer was quizzed over Milly’s death four years ago. He denies being involved.