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Stalker guilty of student murders | Stalker guilty of student murders |
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A man has been found guilty of murdering two students he stalked at bus stops. | A man has been found guilty of murdering two students he stalked at bus stops. |
Levi Bellfield, 39, was convicted of killing Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, in south-west London. | Levi Bellfield, 39, was convicted of killing Amelie Delagrange, 22, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, in south-west London. |
He has also been found guilty of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy. | He has also been found guilty of the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy. |
Bellfield, of West Drayton, west London, carried out the attacks between 2001 and 2004. He will be sentenced at the Old Bailey on Tuesday. | |
During the trial the prosecution said Bellfield trawled buses and bus stops for women and attacked them when they rejected him. | |
Miss McDonnell was "bludgeoned to death" just yards from her front door after she got off a bus in February 2003. | |
Bellfield stalked lone women at bus stops | |
And in August 2004 Miss Delagrange died from severe head injuries following an attack on Twickenham Green when she was walking home after missing her bus stop. | |
Miss Sheedy suffered extensive injuries when she got off a bus and was hit by a car which reversed back over her before driving off in May 2004 when she was 18. | |
Police revealed after the trial that Bellfield is also suspected of carrying out 20 other attacks on women, including six attempted date rapes involving drugs. | |
They believe more victims will now come forward. | |
'Safer city' | |
Outside court Det Ch Insp Colin Sutton, from the Metropolitan Police, said Londoners could feel safer after the verdicts. | |
Bellfield is also due to be questioned over the murder of 13-year-old Milly Dowler, who went missing on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames in Surrey on 21 March 2002. | |
The jury of seven women and five men was unable to reach verdicts on two other charges. These were the kidnap and false imprisonment of Anna-Maria Rennie, 17, and the attempted murder of hairdresser Irma Dragoshi, 33. | The jury of seven women and five men was unable to reach verdicts on two other charges. These were the kidnap and false imprisonment of Anna-Maria Rennie, 17, and the attempted murder of hairdresser Irma Dragoshi, 33. |
The Crown Prosecution Service said it would not seek a retrial on the two counts. |