Michael Stone – New Evidence Casts Doubt on His Conviction

Serial killer Levi Bellfield has confessed to the Russell murders, according to the legal team working for Michael Stone, who has spent nearly two decades in jail for the killings. Stone is serving two life sentences after being convicted of the murders of Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan, as well as the attempted murder of her nine-year-old daughter Josie, near the village of Chillenden, Kent in 1996. But the claim that Bellfield has made a “very detailed confession” to a fellow prisoner that was corroborated by forensic evidence and witness testimony has raised the prospect Stone could be freed, his lawyers and sister Barbara said on Wednesday.

“We have now received evidence of a full confession by Levi Bellfield to the Russell murders,” Stone’s solicitor Paul Bacon told reporters. “In the confession, Bellfield describes how he came across Lin Russell and her two children, how he attacked them with a hammer, and his motivation for the killing. The confession is detailed and has a number of facts which are not in the public domain.” Stone’s legal team said it had been made over the course of a few weeks and included “diagrams of where the murder took place and where the bodies were in situ”, as well as contemporaneous notes.

Read more: Kevin Rawlinson, Guardian, http://bit.ly/2ngYL4s