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LEVI BELLFIELD

Levi Bellfield, born on May 17, 1968, grew up in Hounslow, Hanworth and Feltham.

Bellfield’s dad died when Levi was eight and his mum, who is now in her 70s and suffers from emphysema, still lives in Hanworth.

Bellfield, 39, went to Forge Lane Primary School then on to Feltham Community College, and has at least two sisters and one brother, Richard.

He admitted being familiar with the locations of all five south-west London attacks, having lived, worked, and socialised in the area all his life.

He has moved a number of times in recent years, including a spell in Manor Road, Twickenham. At the end of 1999 he moved to Little Benty in West Drayton with his then partner Emma Mills.

He lived between there and a second house in Crosby Close, Hanworth from February 2004, until his arrest in November that year.

He has had a string of girlfriends, and has two children with Emma Mills and another nine by various other women.

The couple enjoyed winter holidays with their son and daughter in Tenerife.

Bellfield worked as a bouncer in Uxbridge, Watford, Ealing and Sunbury, and for a few days at Line Cars in Shepperton before turning his hand at wheel-clamping. After a few months learning the ropes he started up his own clamping business in 2002, using “cold-calling” tactics to find new clients, and sometimes working nights.

A huge number of cars passed through his hands - around 20 in 2004 alone. He would buy and sell “old bangers” and lend them to his employees - who were also his friends - on an ad-hoc basis.

During the trial Bellfield denied ever having been to the Grand Union (formerly the Hobgoblin) or the William Webb Ellis (formerly the Sorting Room), two pubs visited by Kate Sheedy on her night out with friends before she was brutally attacked.

Bellfield also told jurors he had never been to Cristalz on London Road in Twickenham, where French student Amelie Delagrange had been drinking on the night she was bludgeoned to death on Twickenham Green.

His old haunts included the Five Bells in Harmondsworth, and the Red Lion in the 1990s, the Five Oaks, and Scholars nightclub, all in Twickenham.

Previous convictions

• Two charges of burglary, including stealing a saddle from a shed in Hanworth. Bellfield pleaded guilty aged 13 in 1982. Sentenced to a 12-month conditional discharge for each offence.
  
• Aged 17 Bellfield pleaded guilty to taking a Morris Minor without the owner’s consent, driving without supervisions and three other offences. He was fined £120.
  
• He was fined £35 after pleading to a charge of drunk and disorderly, failure to surrender to bail and one other offence aged 18. He was fined £35.
  
• Bellfield was given a two-year probation order, disqualified from driving for six months and fined £100, £10 costs after pleading guilty to taking a car from a car park and one other offence.
  
• He was fined £50 and £10 costs by Feltham Magistrates after pleading guilty to possessing an offensive weapon (a broken off fence penal) in a public place.
  
• He pleaded guilty to breaking into a car in Hounslow and stealing a radio cassette. He was fined £50 and £30 on February 23, 1990.
  
• Bellfield was fined £500 after he pleaded guilty on July 16, 1990 of displaying the tax disc of another car in his vehicle and failing to surrender to bail.
  
• He was 22 when he pleaded guilty to ABH on a policeman and a special constable in January, 1991. He was sentenced to 13 months in prison.
  
• He was fined £120 and ordered to pay £200 in compensation after pleading guilty to ABH on a man in the Red Lion in Twickenham in April 1993.
  
• Bellfield was given two 12-month conditional discharges after pleading guilty to obtaining a stolen bank card by deception and attempting to use it in Sainsbury’s on April 1993.
  
• Pleaded guilty to possessing an offensive weapon (lock knife) in a public place and was fined £250 in July 1998.
  
• He pleaded guilty to dangerous driving at Guildford Crown Court aged 36. He was sentenced to eight months in prison and disqualified from driving for seven years.