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| Milly Dowler murder: Levi Bellfield admits killing | |
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| Serial killer Levi Bellfield has admitted abducting, raping and killing 13-year-old Milly Dowler for the first time, according to Surrey Police. | Serial killer Levi Bellfield has admitted abducting, raping and killing 13-year-old Milly Dowler for the first time, according to Surrey Police. |
| Bellfield was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for murdering the schoolgirl. | Bellfield was given a whole-life prison sentence in June 2011 for murdering the schoolgirl. |
| He made the admission during an investigation into whether he had an accomplice, Surrey Police said. | He made the admission during an investigation into whether he had an accomplice, Surrey Police said. |
| The force also revealed it had arrested a man in his 40s who has since been released without charge. | The force also revealed it had arrested a man in his 40s who has since been released without charge. |
| Detectives from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team made the arrest following new information regarding an accomplice being involved in the abduction and rape, but not murder, of Milly Dowler. | Detectives from the Surrey and Sussex Major Crime Team made the arrest following new information regarding an accomplice being involved in the abduction and rape, but not murder, of Milly Dowler. |
| They said no evidence had been found to support that claim. | |
| 'Devastating' | |
| Milly's family responded to the news of Bellfield's admission, saying: "The effect of this information has been devastating for a family which has already had to endure so much." | |
| Milly was kidnapped while on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002. | |
| Her body was later found 25 miles away in Yateley Heath, Hampshire. Experts could not say how she died. | |
| Bellfield was found guilty of abducting and killing the teenager following a trial at the Old Bailey. | |
| He was already in jail for the murders of Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, when he went on trial accused of killing Milly. | |
| Bellfield, who now calls himself Yusuf Rahim, lived 50 yards from where Milly vanished but did not become a suspect until he was arrested by police in London for the other crimes in 2004. |