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On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discovered many miles away. A massive police investigation the largest manhunt in Surreys history got nowhere. Only when nightclub bouncer and bare-knuckle boxer Levi Bellfield was arrested for the murder of another young woman did it become clear to police that they had a serial killer on their hands. This is the full story of the murders the victims and the pain-staking nine-year investigation and trial by police and prosecutors. It tells of Bellfields terrifying controlling personality - a man who went from charming to monstrous in the blink of an
eye - and his depraved stalking of young women. It is a terrifying portrait of the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.
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On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discovered many miles away. A massive police investigation the largest manhunt in Surreys history got nowhere. Only when nightclub bouncer & bare-knuckle boxer Levi Bellfield was arrested for the murder of another young woman did it become clear to police that they had a serial killer on their hands. This is the full story of the murders the victims & the pain-staking nine-year investigation & trial by police & prosecutors. It tells of Bellfields terrifying controlling personality
- a man who went from charming to monstrous in the blink of an eye
- & his depraved stalking of young women. It is a terrifying portrait of the only man in modern British legal history to be given two whole-life sentences.

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Eye - An organ which detects light
police - Persons empowered to reduce civil disorder and enforce the law.
Boxer - Someone who likes to compete at the sport boxing
History - Anything that happens in the past. An acedemic subject.
Year - The time it takes the planet earth to orbit the sun. This takes around 365.25 days.
Home - A place of permanent residence for families.
Year - 365 days (366 days in a leap year), the time taken for planet earth to make one full revolution around the sun.

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