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Grass ... Levi Bellfield
Top QC: Grillings of
family were justified
BELLFIELD'S lawyer was right to grill Milly's family on their private lives, Britain's top barrister said yesterday.
Bar Council chairman Peter Lodder QC said their ordeal was "necessary distress".
Distraught mum Sally collapsed in the dock. The jury were told Milly was deeply unhappy - denied by her parents - and her dad Bob kept bondage porn.
Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer wants a review of witnesses' treatment.
But Mr Lodder said the need for fairness gave defence QC Jeffrey Samuels a right to ask upsetting questions.
He said: "Courts must ensure victims or families don't endure unnecessary distress. This was necessary.
"We must recognise an accused's right to defend himself."
ExclusiveGypsy lags target cop grass Levi Bellfield
MURDERING sex beast Levi Bellfield was living in terror of his fellow gypsy lags last night - after being exposed as a police GRASS.
The caged killer of 13-year-old Milly Dowler and two other young girls spent years secretly informing on pals in the travelling community, The Sun can reveal.
His usefulness to the Met was last night feared to be one reason the child-sex monster and serial rapist dodged justice for so long.
Vile Bellfield, 43, whose parents were of gypsy stock, would boast to chums of his hatred for the "gavvers" - police.
But all along the maniac - who still proudly signs his jail letters "Fat Gypsy Boy" - was registered with Met cops in Ealing, West London, as a "covert human intelligence source".
Revenge fears ... top-security Wakefield jailLast night officials at Wakefield jail, where the lifer is likely to be held, were braced for revenge attacks.
They also fear he could be targeted by lags outraged at his paedo crimes.
Snatched ... Milly DowlerBellfield, who refuses to admit his depraved lust for children, has insisted on not being segregated like Soham monster Ian Huntley and Roy Whiting - the killer of eight-year-old Sarah Payne.
A source said: "Bellfield has always thought of himself as above their level. The reality is he is a murdering paedophile piece of scum who even betrayed those closest to him."
Bellfield murdered Milly in 2002 after abducting the schoolgirl in Walton on Thames, Surrey.
He went on to bludgeon to death with a hammer two more girls - Marsha McDonnell 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22.
The brute was already serving life for their murders when on Friday he got another life term for killing Milly.
The jury never heard how he and a posse of perverts drugged and raped a string of schoolgirls as young as 13 - often filming the horror.
Yet Bellfield previously only ever served one six-month jail term for ABH despite a catalogue of crimes.
Never found ... CCTV of kidnap car used by informant BellfieldPhone records when he was arrested in 2004 showed 81 calls to the Met.
Murder cops suspect gypsy contacts were duped into disposing of the red Daewoo car used to snatch Milly. A source said: "What the travelling community did not know was he regularly gave police good info about them."
Before his capture, hammer-wielding Bellfield left a man of 37 in a coma for six weeks.
Victim Peter Rodriguez said Bellfield bragged: "The law doesn't apply to people like me."
He abused me too
A TRAUMATISED ex-girlfriend of Levi Bellfield says she "knew" he would kill - because of the way he abused her.
Ex ... Becky WilkinsonBecky Wilkinson - who had four children with the brute - endured years of mental torture, beatings and rape.
The 40-year-old said: "Levi was a cruel monster who cared nothing for anyone but himself. I fought for years to get away from him. I have no doubt he was capable of murder.
"I believe he stalked Milly and killed her when she rejected his advances. He treated all women the same horrific way."
2011-06-28
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