Yusuf Rahim (born Levi Rabetts; 17 May 1968), better known as Levi Bellfield, is an English Serial Killer and sex offender.
He was found guilty on 25 February 2008 of the murders of Marsha McDonnell and Amélie Delagrange and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy and sentenced to life imprisonment, without the possibility of parole. On 23 June 2011, Bellfield was further found guilty of the murder of Milly Dowler.
Levi Bellfield was born at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, London, to Jean and Joseph Rabetts (née Bellfield); he is of Romani descent.
When Bellfield was ten years old, his father died from leukaemia. Bellfield and his siblings (two brothers and two sisters) were brought up on a southwest London council estate. He has fathered eleven children with at least three women.
Accounts of Levi personality: He exhibited classic traits of controlling behaviour, confiscating their mobile phones, and giving them replacements loaded with his number only, and gradually stopping them from seeing friends and family, or even leaving the house without his explicit say-so.
One story told by an ex-girlfriend summed the Bellfield 'experience' up, following an argument, he instructed her to stay sitting on a stool in the kitchen all night, while he went to bed. She said she would rather wet herself than have moved from that stool.
Childhood memories for Bobbie Louise Bellfield, 20, who is the oldest of Bellfield's 11 children, include him raping and beating her mother, Becky Wilkinson. She also says her father used to leer at schoolgirls during the school run
She also recalled how her father would sound his car's horn at girls whilst on the school run. "He was always beeping at girls walking down the street. They were clearly in uniform. He would shout 'Oi! Oi!' and things like that" and would take her along as he conducted drug deals and burglaries. She now says she hopes she never sees him again and he "rots in hell."
After his 2008 convictions, Bellfield was named by police as a suspect in connection with numerous unsolved murders and attacks on women dating back to 1990 as well as the murder of his childhood girlfriend, 14-year-old Patsy Morris, in 1980.
Regarding the 1996 murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan, BBC Cymru Wales reported that Bellfield had allegedly confessed to the murders to a fellow prisoner, giving details that "would only be known by the killer". Bellfield denied the confession.
