Serial killer Levi Belfield is engaged and has asked for a wedding in prison, the Ministry of Justice has confirmed.
Belfield has applied for permission to marry a woman while serving two life sentences for the murder of Marsha McDonnell, Amelie Delagrange and Millie Dowler.
Former Justice Minister Robert Buckland told the Sun, which was the first to announce the news that the proposed wedding in prison was “not faith”.
He added: “Millie never saw her wedding day. It can’t be right for him to get his. “
The newspaper said he was engaged to a visitor and fell to his knees to make an offer to HMP Frankland prison staff in Durham County.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Justice said: “An application has been received and is being considered in the usual way.”
However, it is understood that Bellfield’s application is still being processed and is not at a further advanced stage.
The 53-year-old killer will need the permission of the prison warden to marry in a category A men’s prison.
Belfield received a life sentence for the murder of McDonald, 19, in 2003, and for the murder of Delagrange, 22, and the attempted murder of Kate Shidi, 18, in 2004.
He was already serving his sentence when he was tried for the murder of Dowler, who was taken off the street on her way from school to her home in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in March 2002.
Belfield was found guilty of kidnapping and killing a 13-year-old schoolgirl after a trial in Old Bailey in 2011.
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