The Murder of Marsha McDonnell

Marsha McDonnell was a 19-year-old student living in Hampton, London. Described as quiet and hard-working, Marsha enjoyed playing netball and was a talented violinist, she planned to travel to Australia before beginning university the next year.

In February 2003, Marsha went to the cinema with her friends before taking the bus home, she was minutes away from her front door when she was attacked from behind. Levi Bellfield bludgeoned Marsha with a blunt object before leaving her to die, she spent two days in hospital before dying from her injuries including multiple skill fractures.

During the murder trial, it emerged Bellfield frequented bus stops and buses looking for women and, if they rejected his advances, attacked them. Bellfield was said to hate women especially blonde women referring to them as ‘impure’ and ‘sluts’ and slashing photographs of blonde models in magazines, he had been accused of raping multiple girls and young women.

Bellfield was convicted of killing Amelie Delegrange and Milly Dowler, and attempting to murder Kate Sheedy who testified against him. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Police have since revealed Bellfield could have been responsible for around 20 unsolved attacks on women in London.

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Levi Bellfield

Levi Bellfield is a British serial killer also known as the Bus Stop Stalker and the Bus Stop Killer. He is Britain’s only serial killer to date to be sentenced to two whole life sentences.

Bellfield’s life seems to have be characterised by crime- he has arrests for burglary, assaulting a police officer, theft and driving offences. He has also fathered 11 children with three women. He was described by officers are initially seeming jokey and friendly but that his mood quickly switches to violent and cunning, ex girlfriends also echo this describing him as charming at first then very controlling. One ex girlfriend described Bellfield’s hatred for women, especially blondes, stating that she found a bin bag with a balaclava, a knife and a magazine with the faces of blonde women scratched out, she added that he boasted of raping women and told her he hated blonde women and that they deserved to die.

Bellfield was arrested on 22nd November 2004 for the murder of Amélie Delagrange, he was also later charged with the murder of Marsha McDonnell and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, who late gave evidence against him. All three women were young and blonde and officers suggested they may have been murdered due to rejecting Bellfield, who likely approached them in his car. Marsha was murdered shortly after she got off a bus

On 30th March 2010, Bellfield was charged with the abduction and murder of 13 year old Milly Dowler.

Bellfield is also suspected as being the killer of his childhood girlfriend Patsy Morris in 1980

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