Levi Bellfield’s family believe their ‘evil, monster’ relative DID murder Lin and Megan Russell
Levi Bellfield’s family believe their ‘evil, monster’ serial killer relative DID murder Lin and Megan Russell with a hammer in gruesome crime Michael Stone was jailed for 26 years ago
Levi Bellfield’s family say they are sure he murdered Lin and Megan RussellThe 53-year-old serial killer has made a formal confession to the 1996 murders A close female relative said she was ‘convinced’ he was responsible for itShe said Bellfield was ‘pure evil’ and ‘the word monster doesn’t do him justice’
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Serial killer Levi Bellfield’s family say they are sure murdered Lin and Megan Russell with a hammer.
His relatives think the 53-year-old killer has committed dozens of other unsolved crimes.
Michael Stone, 61, is currently serving three life sentences for the murders of Mrs Russell and her daughter Megan, who were found bludgeoned to death in the picturesque village of Chillenden, Kent, 26 years ago.
In a harrowing four-page statement, convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield (pictured) has formally confessed to the murders of Lin and Megan Russell, providing chilling details of the attack
Lin Russell, 45, her two daughters, six-year-old Megan (above with her mother) and nine-year-old Josie, were tied up and savagely beaten with a hammer in the brutal attack in 1996
A female relative close to Bellfield said she would give her DNA if it would help pin the crime to him.
Levi Bellfield admitted to murdering mother and daughter Lin and Megan Russell in 1996 in a harrowing four-page statement.
The serial killer has formally confessed to the murders, providing chilling details of the attack.
Lawyers for Michael Stone (pictured), who is serving three life sentences for the murders of Mrs Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan, claim he could be a victim of a miscarriage of justice
Levi Bellfield is currently serving life in prison for the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler (pictured)
Stone would be eligible for parole this year if he admitted killing the Russells.
Yet Bellfield’s close female relative said she was ‘convinced’ the convicted serial killer was responsible for the Lin and Megan Russell’s deaths.
‘I’ve thought that for years,’ she told The Sun. ‘This confession is no shock to me. He’s pure evil.
‘This confession has got to be taken seriously. Bellfield is capable of anything. We all think Michael Stone is innocent.’
‘Bellfield is the worst person in the world. The word monster doesn’t do him justice.’
Killer Bellfield’s solicitor says the serial killer’s confession means Stone will ‘finally’ get his freedom.
The statement details how Bellfield says he killed Lin and Megan and left sister Josie for dead with appalling injuries. He also says he killed the family dog after it bit his wrist.
Bellfield is already serving life for the murders of Millie Dowler, 13, Amelie Delagrange, 22, and 19-year-old Marsha McDonnell.
He was also convicted of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18.
As well as admitting to murdering and Lin and Megan in the 14-paragraph statement, Bellfield, also reportedly admits to the murder of a woman called Judith Gold in North London in 1990.
He has previously admitted being in the Chillenden area at the time of the killings.
But his new statement provides new details, and reveals how after the murders he stopped at services on the M25 in Surrey to wash off blood.
Lawyers for Michael Stone, who is serving three life sentences for the murders of Mrs Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan, claim he could be a victim of a miscarriage of justice
Bellfield then tells how he went home to Twickenham got changed and went to work as a nightclub bouncer.
He says the following day he threw the hammer into the Thames near Walton, Surrey.
He then went on holiday to Turkey, but claims he returned to have the beige Ford Sierra he was driving on the day of the murders cleaned, fearing it was full of DNA.
Solicitors for Michael Stone say Bellfield’s confession to the murders of Lin and Megan Russell in Kent in 1996 is an ‘astonishing breakthrough’ that could free their client.
Stone has twice been found guilty of their murders and is serving three life sentences, but no scientific or identification evidence links him to the scene. Pictured: Police at scene in 2001
Solicitor Paul Bacon said: ‘I can say I have received a four-page statement from Bellfield, which is a genuine confession, it’s an absolutely astonishing breakthrough.
‘I will now meet with colleagues following this remarkable development to finally, after many years, get freedom for Michael Stone. This is the evidence that will prove he is innocent.’
Stone was jailed in 1998 after being convicted of the murders of Ms Russell and her six-year-old daughter, who were found bludgeoned to death in Chillenden, Kent, in July 1996.
However, his police record dates back to 1971 when he was 12 years old and continued into his adult life, serving three prison sentences in the 1980s and 1990s.
Lin, 45, her two daughters, six-year-old Megan and nine-year-old Josie, as well as their dog Lucy, were tied up and savagely beaten with a hammer in the brutal attack. Only Josie survived. The deaths in the picturesque village of Chillenden, Kent in 1996 shocked the nation
Stone has previous convictions for crimes including ABH, robbery, burglary and GBH and was known to carry weapons.
He was sentenced to two years’ in prison in 1981 for attacking a man with a hammer during a robbery.
He then received a four-and-a-half year sentence for stabbing a friend while he slept in 1983, an attack that penetrated the friend’s lung and nearly killed him, and he tried to wound a police officer in the eye after this arrest.
Stone was jailed for a third time and sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for two armed robberies in Maidstone and Brighton respectively during the same week in 1986.
He was released from prison in 1993, three years before the Russells were murdered.
