New evidence may link Levi Bellfield to Russell murders, say lawyers

Legal team for Michael Stone, convicted of killing Lin and Megan Russell, say evidence implicates Milly Dowler’s killer

New evidence could link the serial killer Levi Bellfield to the hammer murders of a woman and her young daughter, lawyers acting for a man twice convicted of the killings believe.

Michael Stone is serving three life sentences for bludgeoning to death Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, six, in an attack near Chillenden, Kent, in 1996. Russell’s other daughter, Josie, nine, suffered severe head injuries and the family’s dog, Lucy, was killed in the attack.

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