Serial killer Bellfield lied about student's murder, Met decides
The Guardian|November 30, 2023
Detectives have decided that the convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield was lying when he made repeated sworn confessions to the kidnap, murder and burial of Elizabeth Chau, who went missing in 1999, the Guardian has learned.
Vikram Dodd
Serial killer Bellfield lied about student's murder, Met decides

The decision means the Metropolitan police will not seek a warrant to dig up the west London site where Bellfield claimed to have buried the remains of Chau, 19, a computer studies student. Chau's family said they were disappointed by the decision and still believed police should dig at the site.

The Met first interviewed Bellfield, 55, who is serving two whole-life sentences, in May but that interview was thought not to be thorough enough. The force carried out a second interview over two days in HMP Frankland in Durham on 6 and 7 November. It included showing him video footage of the scene in west London, now owned by Thames Water, where Bellfield claims to have buried Chau.

A spokesperson for the Met said: "Detectives have taken these disclosures very seriously and examined all information made available to them.

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