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The man who murdered Milly Dowling has admitted to also killing a mother and daughter, a lawyers says.
Levi Bellfield has confessed to killing Lin and Megan Russel with a hammer, according to the lawyer of the man who was convicted of murdering the pair.
Bellfield is currently serving a life sentence for the murder of schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
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The Mirror reports that he is said to have confessed to killing Lin and her daughter Megan, six, and trying to kill Josie Russell, nine, in 1996.
Mum and daughter, Lin and Megan, were walking their dog home from a swimming gala at the time. It was a crime which shocked the country.
Josie survived the attack but suffered such horrific injuries that emergency services initially thought her dead when they arrived on the scene.
The confession, first reported in The Sun , means that Michael Stone, who was convicted of murdering the Russell’s in 1998, could have suffered a miscarriage of justice.
Stone's lawyer Paul Bacon - who only discovered the confession in the last few days - told the Sunday Mirror: “The statement Bellfield has made, I believe is the truth.
“It now needs the police to interview Bellfield under caution and we can then establish Michael Stone’s innocence at last."
His lawyer said he would be writing to him tomorrow as contact has to be through letter.
He added: “My intention is to deliver the (Bellfield) statement to the CCRC and Cressida Dick for the Met to investigate."
In the four-page document, Bellfield, who is now known as Yusuf Rahim after converting to Islam, recounts the bloody attack and reveals macabre details like how he
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