Serial killer Levi Bellfield banned from marrying besotted visitor in jail after urgent new legislation
SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield has been banned from marrying in jail.
His plans to get hitched with a besotted visitor will be blocked under a new law.
The Sun revealed last year that schoolgirl Milly Dowler’s killer applied to tie the knot at HMP Franklin in Durham.
Bosses were powerless to stop him but urgent legislation will prevent anyone who is serving a whole life order from getting married.
The orders are reserved for the most heinous crimes such as Bellfield’s.
Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “Victims should not be tormented by seeing those who commit the most depraved crimes enjoy the moments in life that were stolen from their loved ones.
“That is why I have acted as soon as possible to stop these marriages and give victims the support they deserve.”
Bellfield, 56, the first prisoner to get two whole life orders, had proposed to a woman in her 40s.
He was convicted in 2008 of murdering two young women and attempting to kill a teenager.
In 2011, he was found guilty of the 2002 murder of Milly, 13.