Convicted murderer Levi Bellfield was taken to the streets of Walton today, where schoolgirl Milly Dowler vanished nine years ago.

Bellfield, who denies 13-year-old Milly’s murder and kidnap, was handcuffed as he visited the area where he lived in 2002.

Twelve jurors, with lawyers and Judge Alan Wilkie, also travelled to the town on a coach from the Old Bailey, where the trial started on Tuesday.

Milly disappeared on March 21, 2002, in Station Avenue, close to where Bellfield lived in Collingwood Place. Today’s visit took place in the station where Milly began her walk home.

Her remains were discovered six months later, 25 miles away in Yateley Heath. The area was brought to a standstill as Bellfield, the jurors and the judge retraced her final footsteps.

Surrounded by prison staff and police officers, the convicted killer - formerly of Twickenham - wore handcuffs, a grey sweater with orange sleeves, jeans and white trainers.

Members of the public walking along Station Avenue, trying to get to the station, or driving past were halted by a rolling police cordon which flanked the court proceedings.

Workers peered out of office windows and taxi drivers took a break from their day to watch the unusual sight of the court visit.

The media were banned by a court order from photographing or filming the proceeds inside the police cordon.

Site visits are treated to the same rules and regulations as proceedings in the Old Bailey, but the trip was anything but a typical day in court, as hundreds of stunned passersby watched things unfold.

Jurors were brought by coach to Walton where they saw the platform where Milly arrived, the cafe where she ate chips and the route near Bellfield's flat where she began to walk home.

They also saw the bus stop where fellow schoolgirl Katherine Laynes was sitting when she became the last person to see Milly alive.

They were taken on a circular route along the south side of Station Avenue, past the station car park, and around the outside of the ground floor flat in Collingwood Place where Bellfield lived in 2002, when Milly went missing. Jurors were shown the outside of his flat, part of a three storey red brick building, separated from the main road by a small passage through bushes.

Yards away from where they stood in the flat’s car park, a girl in gloves carried on washing her car.

Other neighbours waited patiently for the cordon to move on before they could return to their homes.

The jury also visited nearby Upper Halliford Road, Shepperton, where another schoolgirl, Rachel Cowles, 11, was offered a lift by a stranger in a red car, the day before Milly went missing.

Bellfield, 42, a former wheel clamper and club bouncer, also denies attempting to abduct Rachel.

Earlier in the day, jurors also visited the area in Shepperton where the prosecution claim Bellfield attempted to abduct Miss Cowles.

Two cars and a patient transport ambulance managed to escape the wider police cordon but were halted yards away from the jurors by police, before being allowed to carry on.

A leaflet delivery boy, neighbours and a Mr Whippy ice cream van also went about their business.