Mother claims Levi Bellfield got her pregnant weeks before he killed Milly Dowler
I had Levi Bellfield’s secret son: Mother claims killer got her pregnant weeks before he killed Milly Dowler and says she was forced to flee when neighbours threatened to tell her 19-year-old the truth about his parent
Bellfield, 53, currently serving whole life order for murder of young Milly DowlerVile serial killer also murdered Marsha McDonnell, 19, Amélie Delagrange, 22But now woman claims they were in relationship in weeks before Dowler murderShe says they met at a nightclub before she fell pregnant after one-night stand
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A mother has claimed Levi Bellfield got her pregnant weeks before he killed Milly Dowler and says she was forced to flee when neighbours threatened to tell her 19-year-old son the truth about his father.
Bellfield, 53, is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old schoolgirl Dowler.
He was also convicted of murdering Marsha McDonnell, 19, Amélie Delagrange, 22, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, and will never be considered for parole.
But now a woman has claimed she was in a relationship with the serial killer and fathered his secret son weeks before Dowler’s murder, The Mirror reports.
The mother-of-three says she met Bellfield, who was using the alias Levi Taylor, in the queue of a nightclub before driving her home in the red Daewoo Nexia used in Dowler’s abduction.
She says she fell pregnant following a one-night stand, an evening she describes as ‘the mistake of my life’, adding that her son remains unaware of her father’s identity.
The mother said: ‘How do you tell your child their father is Britain’s most dangerous killer?’
Bellfield (pictured) is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of 13-year-old schoolgirl Dowler
Dowler was snatched from the street while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002
Marsha McDonnell, 19, was had been to the cinema with friends and was on a late night bus when she was attacked with a hammer
Amelie Delagrange, 22, whose body was found, with a serious head injury lying on Twickenham Green, south west London
Bellfield’s name does not appear on her son’s birth certificate, but police papers and social services documents are understood to show that the woman alerted authorities to their relationship in 2006 – before he faced court for the heinous crimes.
She told police that keeping the secret had caused her to suffer from depression, while she was also forced to flee her home in 2014 when her neighbours threatened to inform her father’s identity.
The woman, who has not been named, said: ‘This is something I’ve kept a secret for more than 20 years. I’ve not wanted to talk about it.
‘I’ve kept it quiet for such a long time, I haven’t even been able to speak his name. My son is gentle and caring, he’s nothing like Levi.
‘He’s just a gentle boy, he’s never asked who his dad is.
‘I’ve always said I would never tell him because I don’t want him to carry that around. I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to lie to my son.’
The woman also claimed that, after having sex with Bellfield on her sofa, he told her he had ‘always thought about burning schoolgirls with cigarettes’.
It was a comment that made the mother think he was trying to gauge her thoughts on becoming ‘his Myra Hindley’.
But she told him the thoughts were ‘horrific’ and described Bellfield as ‘manipulative’.
Bellfield is currently being held within the vulnerable prisoners’ unit at HMP Frankland in Durham.
Bellfield was already serving a whole life term for the murder of Ms McDonnell and Ms Delagrange and attempting to murder Ms Sheedy, 18, in 2004, when he went on trial for killing Milly
He was found guilty of Dowler’s murder in 2011, nine years after her death, and sentenced with the recommendation that he never be released from prison.
She was snatched from the street while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.
He was already serving a whole life term for the murder of Ms McDonnell and Ms Delagrange and attempting to murder Ms Sheedy, 18, in 2004, when he went on trial for killing Milly.
The mother said: ‘It’s something I’ve got to live with. My son and I are very close, but he doesn’t ask about it.
‘I’ve always said that I hoped Levi would die, every year that goes by, because it would make my life easier.
‘People have asked me about my son’s dad and I just say, ‘He’s dead, he drove off a cliff ’.
She added: ‘I don’t regret what happened with Levi, because I have a son I love. He’s nothing like Levi, he’s so soft and wouldn’t hurt a fly.
‘But this is just a big lie I’m carrying around, it’s exhausting.’
