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MUMMY'S BOY
‘Levi Bellfield’s mum wiped his bum and shared a bed with him until he was 13’ claims his ex
MILLY Dowler’s killer Levi Bellfield was still tucked up in his mum’s bed and needed her to wipe his bum at the age of 13... not something you would expect from one of the UK’s most violent serial killers - claims his ex.
Joe Collings, has made the new claims in an interview with Sun Online, and says the twisted murderer had a bizarre relationship with his mum, Jean Bellfield.
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Ahead of a new Really documentary, The Killer In My Family, Joe told us: “She wiped his a**e and let him share her bed until he was 13 years old."
Here, Joe, who says Levi subjected her to years of rape and abuse before beating her when she was heavily pregnant, talks about their bizarre bond.
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Perfect son, secret killer
Joe, who has two children with Bellfield, claims she was beaten to a pulp by the sick killer for years - but that he was the perfect son to his mother.
“He called her every day and went round there all the time. He would stay there and she would lend him money whenever he wanted it,” Joe recalls.
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“She was the female version of him. It’s really bizarre how close Levi and his mum were.
“You know you get that feeling – no matter what he did he was never in the wrong.
“He could never do anything wrong in his mum’s eyes.”
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She even claims that brunette Jean - who died of a lung condition aged 81 in 2017 - was the reason Levi only murdered blondes.
“His mum was the reason he never killed a brunette. Her hair was so black it was blue. He only hated blondes – because they were the opposite of his mother,” Joe says.
Raped, strangled and burned with cigarettes
But to Joe, Levi will always be a monster, not a mummy’s boy.
“He raped me, strangled me, and burnt me with cigarettes but she turned a blind eye. She didn’t believe her ‘little soldier’ was capable of anything bad," she tells us.
“I don’t like it when people call him an animal. Animals kill for survival and they don’t rape,” she says.
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“He even beat me up in front of my 18-month-old daughter. She was screaming hysterically and right then, I could have killed him.”
Eventually, Joe plucked up the courage to leave Bellfield - and, hating him for the years of abuse he put her through, agreed to stand up in court to give evidence during the trial for Milly Dowler’s murder.
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'She stood by him in court and wouldn't accept the truth'
Her evidence - that Levi knew the location where Milly’s body had been dumped - despite previously denying any knowledge of the area to police, was crucial to his conviction.
“When we went to court, Levi’s mum, sister and brother were there watching. I used to be really close to one of his sisters. It’s a shame because she was a really lovely lady,” Joe says.
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Retired Chief Inspector of the Metropolitan Police, Colin Sutton, the man who finally brought Levi down, also revealed how to this day, members of the convicted killer’s family accuse him of setting Levi up.
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He says in the documentary: “Bellfield and some of his family still say that we, the police and the criminal justice system, ‘fitted him up’ in their words, and that there was something crooked or wrong about the evidence.
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Now, Joe and her children, who are in their twenties, are trying to move on with their lives.
But she says she will never escape and worries there will be more confessions to come.
With a relative revealing that Levi is likely to confess to more murders now that his beloved mother isn’t around to hear of her son’s true brutality, it looks Jo’s nightmare could become a reality.
The Killer in My Family: Levi Bellfield is on Really at 10pm on Thursday 31st January
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