True Crime

Levi Bellfield the Only Serial Killer with Two-Life Orders

Can we add the Chillenden Murders to his body count?

Sam H Arnold
CrimeBeat
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4 min readFeb 8, 2021

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Screenshot from BBC Documentary 2017 — Doc : Levi Bellfield — Serial Killer Research Documentary

Levi Bellfield was born on 17th May 1968 and is a serial killer and sex offender. He was found guilty on the 25th February 2008 of murdering Marsha McDonnell and Amelia Delagrange. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy. He was sentenced to a whole life order.

On the 23rd June 2011, he was also convicted of the murder of Milly Dowler. This murder classified him as a serial killer and sentenced him to his second life order. He is the only serial killer in UK history to have two life orders.

Who is Levi Bellfield

Bellfield was born in Isleworth, London and is of Romani descent. His father died of leukaemia when he was ten. He remained in London all his life, until conviction.

He is the father of eleven children from three different mothers. Many of his partners reported that he was lovely at first, even charming. His behaviour would turn to one of control and abuse. He was described by many as evil.

He started his criminal career early on. He was convicted of burglary in 1981 and assaulting a policeman in 1991. He also has several other convictions for…

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Sam H Arnold
CrimeBeat

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