Levi Bellfield’s former partner revealed the evil killer bragged he had raped a disabled girl on a car bonnet and said she blames herself for not reporting him sooner.
During an emotional appearance on Loose Women today, Joanna Collings spoke about meeting Milly Dowler’s murderer when she was 24 and he was working as a doorman.
The pair had two children together but Bellfield subjected Ms Collings to horrific abuse and one time slapped her while she was pregnant.
Levi Bellfield’s former partner, Joanna Collings, revealed the evil killer bragged he had raped a disabled girl on a car bonnet and said she blames herself for not reporting him sooner
During an emotional appearance on Loose Women today, Ms Collings revealed Bellfield subjected her to daily beatings – and once slapped her while she was pregnant
And she admitted she is still haunted by her decision not to report him to the police earlier, leaving him free to kill Milly, 13, and two other women.
She said: ‘He would brag quite often. One time he came home and told me he had raped a disabled girl on the bonnet of a car.
‘I am as guilty as he is. I should have said something.’
Speaking about when they first started going out, she said, ‘You couldn’t have met a nicer person,’ and that ‘He brought me flowers and took me places.’
She added: ‘And he was a good looking man in those days.’
But Bellfield’s evil streak soon emerged and he would subject her to daily beatings. She was too scared to leave him and even stuck by him after he slapped her while she was pregnant with his child.
It was only in 2004, when she spotted Bellfield’s white people carrier on Crimewatch, that she felt able to come forward.
The vehicle appeared in an appeal for witnesses to the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy.
After admitting she is still haunted by her decision not to go to the police until it was too late, Ms Collings was comforted by the panel. Kaye Adams said: ‘There’s only one bad guy in this and it’s Levi Bellfield’
Milly Dowler was raped and murdered by Bellfield in Walton-on-Thames in 2002. He is serving life in prison
When she revealed she still blamed herself for not reporting him sooner, the Loose Women panel comforted her.
Kaye Adams said: ‘There’s only one bad guy in this and it’s Levi Bellfield. You were the victim of horrific abuse.’
Ms Collings said she tries to see herself as a survivor of domestic abuse rather than a victim.
Evil Bellfield, 49, has 11 children by five women an was jailed for life in 2008 for the murders of Marsha McDonnell, 19, in Hampton and French student Amelie Delagrange, 22, in Twickenham Green.
He was also convicted of attempting to kill Ms Sheedy.
In 2011, evidence from Ms Collings helped convicted Bellfield of Milly’s rape and murder in Walton-on-Thames in 2002.