Amelie Delagrange

A friend of the ex-bouncer accused of the "bus-stop" killings told a court that six days after one of the attacks Levi Bellfield cried and told him: "You don't know what I've done".

Richard Hughes, who claimed to be a good friend of Bellfield, told the Old Bailey the outburst occurred when he visited Bellfield and his partner Emma Mills at their home near West Drayton.

Bellfield denies killing French student Amelie Delagrange on Twickenham Green on August 19, 2004.

Mr Hughes, 53, who once went out with Bellfield's sister, told the court he visited the couple regularly.

He told the court that one afternoon he went to see Bellfield, who was lying on the bed talking on his mobile, and who had obviously been crying. There were beer bottles on the floor.

Mr Hughes said: "I knew he was pretty upset. He told me that he needed some help. I said, do you want to go to the hospital? He didn't want to go."

Mr Hughes left the house but returned a few hours later and drove Bellfield to Hillingdon Hospital.

He told the court that during the drive Bellfield rocked backwards and forwards. "I said, what's up bruv?' He said, you don't know what I've done. I left it at that. I think he did tell me that he had taken some pills."

The jury was also shown a hammer which Mr Hughes took from a builder's bucket in Bellfield's van to fit a skirting board and which he later handed over to police.

When asked what he did with the hammer, he replied: "I stole it. I took it home."

Bellfield also denies the murder of Marsha McDonnell, the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy and Irma Dragoshi, and the kidnap and false imprisonment of Anna-Maria Rennie.

The trial continues.

5:12pm Monday 17th December 2007

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