Bellfield victim: I was never told he confessed to hammer attack

Police treated case 'like a joke right from start’

- MATTHEW YOUNG

A VICTIM has blasted police for not telling her that serial killer Levi Bellfield reportedly confessed to attacking her with a hammer almost 20 years ago.

Sarah Spurrell, 44, accused Sussex Police of treating her as a "complete and utter joke" after the vicious assault in January 2004.

She says she only found out about Bellfield's confession, apparently made in March, when she was told this month by ITV News London.

The then 23-year-old medical technician was hit three times over the back of the head in a dark street in the seaside town of Hastings, East Sussex.

She said: "I remember it like it was yesterday... I was walking to my friend's house and a white car passed me three times.