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Bus stop stalker facing life terms

Bus stop killer Levi Bellfield, the prime suspect in the Milly Dowler murder, is facing three life sentences.

Bellfield, 39, was convicted at the Old Bailey on Monday of murdering students Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of schoolgirl Kate Sheedy, 18.

Bellfield trawled bus stops and followed buses late at night looking for young blondes on their own. He would follow them, offer them lifts and, if they turned him down, react with rage.

Ms McDonnell was struck over the head with a hammer feet from her home in Hampton, west London, after getting off a bus in February 2003.

Bellfield, a former nightclub bouncer, stalked convent school head girl Kate Sheedy as she got off a bus near her house in Isleworth, in May 2004.

When she crossed over to avoid him, he aimed his vehicle at her and ran her over - reversing back over the girl to make sure she was dead. But the plucky teenager survived to give evidence against Bellfield.

Ms Delagrange was battered over the head with a heavy instrument such as a hammer in August 2004, after getting off at the wrong bus stop.

Bellfield followed her as she walked back towards her home in Twickenham Green, west London, and attacked her after trying to pick her up on the local cricket green.

Bellfield was found guilty unanimously of murdering Amelie and by a 10-2 majority of the crimes against Marsha and Kate.

After the case Surrey Police said they would be interviewing Bellfield in connection with Milly Dowler's murder in 2002. She disappeared in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, while going home from school. Her decomposed body was found later in Hampshire.

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