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Three women have come forward after ITV’s true drama, Manhunt.

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Three women have contacted police about assaults they believe were committed by convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield. This comes after a TV drama documented how he was brought to justice.

Levi Bellfield

Bellfield killed three women in London and surrey between the years 2002 and 2004. The ITV drama, Manhunt, tells the story of how detectives caught him. An ex-police officer, who led the team of detectives, said the three women had contacted him since the three-part drama began on Monday.

Det Ch Insp Colin Sutton said: “Three women have made contact with me since Manhunt started on TV, outlining assaults they suffered many years ago and for which they believe Levi Bellfield was responsible,” he said.

“I have had email conversations with all of them and we are making sure that they get appropriate support, dependent on their wishes.”

Bellfield was convicted of killing three women in south-west London and Surrey in the early 2000s. One of the victims was 22-year-old Amelie Delagrange was a French student who had been living in Twickenham for three months and was killed on August 19th, 2004. She had been working as a patisserie in Richmond and was in the UK for her studies as she had a “passion for the English Language”.  Her body was found on Twickenham Green where she was attacked after a night out with friends. She missed her bus stop so was walking home across the green. She was struck over the head with a hammer.

The previous year he murdered Masha McDonnell on February 4th. The 19-year-old was on a gap year before starting university and she was planning a trip to Australia. Marsha had been working in a gift shop in Kingston, Surrey on her year off. She was passionate about music and following her murder a children’s hospice was named after her. Marsha had been to the cinema with her friends, she was attacked yards from her home. She had just got off the bus and was walking home when she was hit with a hammer.

His last murder was Milly Dowler, she was only 13 when she was murdered in March in 2002. She was a year 9 pupil and lived with her parents and sister. Milly was walking home from a railway station after school when she was kidnapped. Her body was later found 25 miles away in Hampshire. She had been strangled.

In total 2,000 hours of footage were reviewed by detectives, footage showed a white van had arrived at the green just before Amelie was killed. It stayed for eight minutes then drove off. They could not track the van down at the time there was 26,00 Ford Courier vans like the one that was seen on CCTV. A breakthrough on the case came after a woman suggested her ex-boyfriend was a potential suspect, this was Levi Bellfield.

He was a wheel clamper who owned a white van, it later emerged he also owned a Toyota Previa with blacked out windows.  He was arrested in November 2004 after he was found hiding in his loft. He was given a life sentence in June 2011 after being found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler. At the time he was in jail for the murders of Amelie and Marsha. It was claimed last month that Bellfied was part of a child sex gang that has never been brought to justice.

Bellfield now calls himself Yusuf Rahim and was linked to six men accused of paedophilia, murder and grooming. There is reports that he has allegedly confessed to the murder of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter in 1996.

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