Serial killer Levi Bellfield's chilling letter confession to murdering mum and daughter

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prison for killing three people, including schoolgirl Millie Dowler, has finally made a formal confession to the two murders and how he had also attempted to kill Josie Russell, nine, back in 1996.In a four-page statement made last month and lodged with a ­solicitor, Bellfield goes into matter-of-fact detail about how he carried out the brutal attacks in Kent that shocked the nation.

He even reveals that he took a hair scrunchie as a souvenir and killed the family's dog because it bit him.The statement, passed to lawyers representing Michael Stone who was convicted of the Russell murders, said: "I was wearing bright yellow marigold washing up gloves and holding a hammer in my right hand.“In my car, I had a screwdriver, a lock knife, a hammer, yellow marigold gloves and a very long black bootlace.“My first intention was to just attack Lin, but I quickly changed my mind due to the screams and was worried she would fight back given the children were with her.“I approached Lin and held her right arm tight.

She asked me not to harm her children. She was calm. Had she screamed I would have attacked her and left not harming the children.“The situation just got out of control and the more she complied it just gave me more confidence.

I walked all three of them off the track. I forced Lin to sit down."Describing how he killed the family dog, he added: “I grabbed the dog by the collar and it bit my wrist.