Distraught mother of murdered Amelie in tears over daughter's final moments

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Dominique Delagrange, 54, heard how a 'predatory' former nightclub bouncer battered Amelie to death as she walked home from a night out.

The 22-year-old was hit three times around the head with a blunt instrument, then left for dead.

Amelie, who came to London to improve her English, had been with friends in a wine bar in Twickenham village, South-West London, in August 2004.

She took a bus home but missed her stop and had to walk back, a journey that took her across a small area of unlit parkland on Twickenham Green. It was here that her bloodspattered body was found.

Levi Bellfield, 39, is accused of murdering two women, including Amelie, and attacking three others in affluent areas of South and South-West London over three years from 2001.

Yesterday Mme Delagrange and her husband Jean-Francois listened as the Old Bailey heard that Bellfield, who also worked as a wheelclamper, was 'cruising'

Grief: Amelie's devastated mother Dominique yesterday

the area in his Ford Courier van on the night Amelie was killed.

The jury was shown CCTV footage of the van parked next to Twickenham Green from 10pm to 10.08pm.

Prosecutor Brian Altman said: "Levi Bellfield, driving the van, had spotted Amelie some time on her route and was determined to engage her. There was time for him to wait for her, to intercept her, attack her, steal her possessions and drive off."

The CCTV footage also showed the van after the attack, being driven 'at a crazy speed' towards Bellfield's home in West Drayton via Walton-on-Thames. Mr Altman alleged that Bellfield dumped Amelie's mobile and handbag under Walton bridge.

The court heard that in the weeks following Bellfield suffered from panic attacks and said to a friend 'you don't know what I've done'.

Bellfield also got rid of his van, which has never been found.

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Last moments: Marsha McDonnell gets off a bus moments before she was attacked

The court heard that police who arrested Bellfield at his home in November 2004 found a newspaper cutting about Amelie's death in a drawer.

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Victim: Amelie was seen by 30 separate cameras on her last journey - including these shots of her on the Twickenham bus

Bellfield denies murdering Amelie and Marsha McDonnell, 19, attempting to murder Kate Sheedy, 18, and Irma Dragoshi, 34, and kidnapping Anna-Maria Rennie, 17.

The case continues.