Serial killer Levi Bellfield gets ENGAGED to besotted blonde visitor who he plans to marry in prison

SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield is engaged to a besotted female visitor who he plans to wed behind bars. But former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the sick plan by Milly Dowler’s murderer “beggars belief”. He said: “Milly never got to see her wedding day. It cannot be right that he gets to have his.” Hammer […]

SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield is engaged to a besotted female visitor who he plans to wed behind bars.

But former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland said the sick plan by Milly Dowler’s murderer “beggars belief”.

He said: “Milly never got to see her wedding day. It cannot be right that he gets to have his.”

Hammer killer Bellfield has sparked outrage after it was revealed he got down on one knee and proposed to his lover in front of stunned prison staff.

Depraved Bellfield, 53, serving a whole-life term for at least three murders — including 13-year-old Milly — put a ring on the woman’s finger and incredibly she accepted.

He has now consulted a solicitor to help him with his plan to marry her at HMP Frankland in Co Durham.

But former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland slammed the revelation.

He said: “People will be rightly shocked to hear that a man capable of such depraved crimes and is rightly imprisoned is able to form a relationship of this kind.”

David Spencer, director of the Centre for Crime Prevention, said: “This marriage is an insult to the families of Bellfield’s many victims.

“Given the magnitude and nature of his brutal crimes, it will turn many taxpayers’ stomachs to think that their money is being used to fund such a grotesque union.

“If it is in any way possible, the Ministry of Justice should intervene to stop this ceremony from proceeding.”

Richard Holden, MP for North West Durham, said: “It is a shocking insult to his victims and their families that the attention seeking whims of this sick multiple-murderer are being catered to from behind bars.

“The only crumb of comfort is the knowledge that he will never be released and spend the rest of his life rotting in prison.”

And Tory MP Andrew Bridgen said: “While Levi Bellfield has the right to get married in prison, many will be thinking of the rights of the young women and girls he murdered and which he took away.”

The woman — a blonde in her 40s who we are not identifying — started corresponding with the fiend after he wrote to her two years ago and she is now a regular visitor.

She travels to see him once or twice a week for two hours at a time. They sit opposite each other at a table and mingle with other cons and their friends and families in a hall at the prison.

It was at one of these visits that Bellfield proposed out of the blue and placed a ring on her finger, in front of shocked prison staff.

She has also bought him an engagement ring but Bellfield is not allowed to wear it until given permission to marry.

When approached about her engagement to Bellfield, the woman refused to comment to The Sun.

Yesterday a source said: “Bellfield proposed to the lady in the traditional way on one of her visits — and was cock-a-hoop when she said yes.

It beggars belief. Milly Dowler never got to see her wedding day because she was robbed of her life by Bellfield. It cannot be right that he gets to have his.

Former Justice Secretary Robert Buckland

“He has been bragging about it to other inmates and telling people how he has a fiancée. It is all odd and quite disturbing.

“It is obviously hard to see what the woman sees in him, especially considering what he has done and the fact he is never getting out.

“But Bellfield is deadly serious about her and has looked into the legal issues around marrying in jail.

“It is legal but he fears the jail authorities could make life difficult for him — so he has already consulted his solicitor about it.”

Bellfield was convicted in 2008 of killing Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22, plus the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18, who he deliberately ran over.

He followed his murder victims in areas he knew well in South West London and launched vicious hammer attacks.

When police arrested Bellfield — who has at least seven children with at least three women — they found he had violently abused three ex-partners. Nine serious offences of assault and sexual assault on them were left on file.

In 2011, Bellfield was also convicted of the 2002 murder of Surrey schoolgirl Milly, who he abducted in Walton on Thames.

The Sun told in February how Bellfield — suspected of scores of other attacks — had also sensationally confessed to the 1996 hammer murders of Lin Russell, 45, and her daughter Megan, six, in Kent.

Michael Stone, 61, had been convicted of the killings in 1998.

While Levi Bellfield has the right to get married in prison, many will be thinking of the rights of the young women and girls he murdered and which he took away.

Tory MP Andrew Bridgen

Last night, former Metropolitan Police Det Chief Insp Colin Sutton — who brought Bellfield to justice — said he was “extremely troubled” at news of the planned marriage.

Mr Sutton, played by Martin Clunes in ITV drama Manhunt, said: “We found that any relationship Levi Bellfield entered into started off fine and then quickly developed into one of coercive control and violence.

“It is worrying that he still has the ability to enter into a relationship like this with a partner.

“But she will be in a safer position than partners he had on the outside because he is locked up.”

Bellfield, who had several partners before being jailed but never wed, has written love letters and poems to the woman — and has pictures of her on his cell wall. They include one of her in lingerie and the words, “Come to bed Levi”.

Prisoners have the right to marry in jail under the 1983 Marriages Act and the Human Rights Act.

A wedding ceremony would take place in the prison’s chapel, after which Bellfield would be allowed a two-hour visit from his new wife.

But it would be closely supervised by prison staff and the fiend would not have conjugal rights.

Bellfield was accused of fondling his lover on a jail visit in March amid claims he put his hand up her skirt, which the pair deny. He was found guilty at an internal disciplinary but is appealing and has complained to the Prison and Probation Ombudsman.

Bellfield, who tried to kill himself last November, was put on closed visits, with less contact, after the accusation.

Ministry of Justice sources said last night marriage applications from lags were “rare”.

But prison governors must “facilitate if possible”.

A Prison Service spokesperson said: “An application has been received and is being considered in the usual way.”