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The Crown Prosecution Service is to announce on Tuesday whether killer Levi Bellfield is to be charged with murdering Milly Dowler in 2002. | The Crown Prosecution Service is to announce on Tuesday whether killer Levi Bellfield is to be charged with murdering Milly Dowler in 2002. |
Former bouncer Bellfield was jailed for life in 2008 for killing Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell. | Former bouncer Bellfield was jailed for life in 2008 for killing Amelie Delagrange and Marsha McDonnell. |
He has become the prime suspect over the killing of 13-year-old Milly. | |
Her body was discovered on Yateley Heath in Hampshire, six months after she disappeared in Walton-on-Thames. She was identified by dental records. | Her body was discovered on Yateley Heath in Hampshire, six months after she disappeared in Walton-on-Thames. She was identified by dental records. |
Milly had phoned her father on 21 March 2002 to say she would be home in half an hour. | |
Red Daewoo | |
She disappeared near a railway station that afternoon, triggering a UK-wide search. | |
CPS officials began considering a charge in August 2009, after receiving a large dossier of circumstantial evidence from police. | |
The files of material, compiled by Surrey Police, include new evidence against Bellfield dating from December 2008. | |
Levi Bellfield was given a whole life term for killing two young women | |
In recent years the investigation has focused on a red Daewoo car seen on the day of the disappearance. Police believed it was used to transport her body. | |
Last year a lake near Heathrow Airport was unsuccessfully searched for the car, while scrap dealer Nirmal Gharu was questioned then released without charge. | |
Bellfield, who once owned a red Daewoo, was first arrested and interviewed over the teenager's death five years ago. | |
He is already serving a whole life sentence for murdering the two young women, aged 22 and 19, after they got off buses in south-west London. | |
He was also found guilty of trying to kill Kate Sheedy, then 18, in 2004. |