The man who murdered Milly Dowling has admitted to also killing a mother and daughter, a lawyers says. Levi Bellfield has confessed to killing Lin and Megan Russel with a hammer, according to the lawyer of the man who was convicted of murdering the pair.
Bellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler. READ MORE: Protesters camped out on Ryebank Fields for nearly a year to stop a housing development have now built their own home The Mirror reports that he is said to have confessed to killing Lin and her daughter Megan, six, and trying to kill Josie Russell, nine, in 1996.
Mum and daughter, Lin and Megan, were walking their dog home from a swimming gala at the time. It was a crime which shocked the country.
Josie survived the attack but suffered such horrific injuries that emergency services initially thought her dead when they arrived on the scene.
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