Serial killer Levi Bellfield launches legal action against Government after bid to marry besotted jail visitor blocked
SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield has launched legal action against the government after his bid to marry a besotted jail visitor was blocked.
Vile Bellfield, 54 — whose victims include Milly Dowler, 13 — has threatened a judicial review if jail bosses do not swiftly provide a “substantive response”.
And the fiend, serving two whole-life terms, has joked with prison pals that his legal fight “is costing me f*** all”.
It could trigger a court clash between Bellfield, who is engaged to a woman in her 40s, and Justice Secretary Dominic Raab.
But Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke said: “It cannot be right that he can use taxpayers’ money to try to do this. He took away the futures of young women and a girl and their right to marry. So if he wants to fight for his right to marry, he should pay for it.”
Bellfield, held at Frankland Prison in County Durham, was convicted in 2008 of killing Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22.
In 2011, he was nailed for Milly’s murder in 2002.
He is suspected of others.
Mr Raab wants to ban whole-life lags from marrying under a Victims Bill, saying women wed to lifers could face being coerced or controlled.
But Bellfield’s letter, sent on March 8 by law firm Carringtons, insists it is “unlawful” to delay the marriage application which was first filed in January 2021.
It quotes the 1983 Marriage Act and the European Convention on Human Rights which give lags the right to marry — and warns of action unless a response is received within 14 days.
A source said: “Bellfield’s laughing that he’s getting all this help for free. It’s alarming that, as things stand, his barristers have the law on their side.
“The prison has kicked this into the long grass because they don’t want it to happen, but legally they will probably have to allow it.”
Ex-Met DCI Colin Sutton, who brought Bellfield to justice, said: “The government needs to act quickly here. It makes a mockery of marriage and the legal system to let someone in jail for the most serious offences against women and girls marry in prison.
“Also, anyone who gets entangled with him is vulnerable.”
A Justice Department source said: “Monsters like Bellfield shouldn’t be able to marry from prison. That he thinks he can get his way shows exactly why we’re seeking to change the law.”
The Prison Service said: “The application is being considered.”