Milly Dowler was just minutes from home when she was kidnapped by serial killer Levi Bellfield. The 13-year-old had just called her dad to tell him she was walking home and would be back soon.
For six months her devastated family desperately prayed she would return home - and then her naked body was was found in woodland.
It would be more than nine years before Bellfield, who was already serving a life sentence for the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amélie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, was convicted of killing Milly.
March 21, 2002, had been a day like any other for the bubbly schoolgirl. Milly had left classes as usual at 3pm and headed to Weybridge Station with a pal.
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