Well there was no doubt he would be found guilty. Like a lot of these "high profile trials" there is no forensic evidence linking him to the case, just circumstantial bits and pieces brought together in a "look he killed these others, so must have killed this one" sort of way.

Still I'm sure the Police will be on the booze tonight, congratulating themselves on getting another statistic up on their case completion rates whilst the real murderer is out there some where.

The British Police - it doesn't matter who we get for a crime, as long as we get someone. Innocence, Guilt? No matter!

Well spotted Steve.
As a victim of a police stitch up I know how easy it is for them to do this.
Levi may be guilty of previous crimes,of that I don't know,but of this there certainly was not any single item of 'condemning' evidence,just the chance to clear up an unwanted crime.

it's called Future Shock.

the idea that all roads will one day be built, pot holes filled, all high rise buildings completed..and all crime solved and so on.

The concept that society is an ever changing (evolving ?) entity where the same things happen over and over again as that is the nature of the human condition is challenged by tabloids that like to imply if they were listened to everything would be perfect.

Thus innocent men go to jail, TV hosts can't go for a slash in a nightclub toilet without being accused of assault...on and on it goes.

JK is right..going to hell in a handbasket !

steveimp wrote:
Well there was no doubt he would be found guilty. Like a lot of these "high profile trials" there is no forensic evidence linking him to the case, just circumstantial bits and pieces brought together in a "look he killed these others, so must have killed this one" sort of way.

The most worrying thing, Steve, are comments by the DPP following complaints - about the Court system - from Dowler's parents.

From Sky News - news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Milly-...2C_Says_Keir_Starmer

The ordeal of Milly Dowler's parents during the trial of her killer raises "fundamental questions" about the court process, the director of public prosecutions has said.

Keir Starmer QC made the statement after Sally and Bob Dowler launched a scathing attack on the justice system.

The couple described the "horrifying ordeal" of feeling they were on trial along with Levi Bellfield, who was earlier given an unprecedented second whole-life jail term.

And Mr Dowler said his family had paid "too high a price" for Bellfield's conviction, saying the trial had been a "mentally scarring process" and the justice sysstem was loaded unfairly in favour of the criminal.

Mr Starmer responded with a statement which said: "This trial has raised some fundamental questions about the treatment of victims and witnesses in the court process.

"Those questions require answers and we will be contributing to the review by the Ministry of Justice into all aspects of victim support."

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What next?
No evidence being required (for a conviction) to satisfy the demands of the deceased' family?

A very worrying prospect.

And the media does love to put the boot in a man when he's down, don't they? The stoopid majority will say things like "pity he wasn't a bit kinder to the girls, then" - I'm convinced there is a physical disability that won't allow brains to feel pity for the perpetrator as well as for the victim.

They seem totally unable to pity the victim, condemn the evil act yet also sympathise with the perpetrators and try to help them cope with the awful consequences of their wickedness.

Yeah JK, just watching this on 5 News now. Makes me even more convinced that Belfield, the thug and thoroughly horrible piece of work he seems to be (but then that's only going on photos of him and the media), isn't guilty of this crime. Maybe that's what the parents are actually saying when they feel they don't have justice - perhaps because there is a slight feeling that something isn't right here?

Belfield is now being linked with the Russell murders in Kent. What is going on here, did he step into a TARDIS straight out to Victorian London and commit the "Jack of Ripper" acts as well?

When the media has it's "Mr Nasty" then they don't let go.

That rather sounds like the words of someone speaking from personal experience...