DOUBLE killer Levi Bellfield burnt a bed and duvet after murdering schoolgirl Milly Dowler, a court was told yesterday.
The former bouncer, 43, also moved his family out of the flat where he allegedly killed Milly, 13, after snatching her off the street - and got rid of a car.
Prosecutor Brian Altman QC told the Old Bailey that a king-size mattress was removed from the accused's flat the day after Milly vanished on March 21, 2002.
He said Bellfield got his friend Malcolm Ward, then 18, to help carry the mattress to a van.
It was driven from Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, to a house 13 miles away in West Drayton, West London - where he had previously lived with partner Emma Mills and their two kids.
Mr Altman said according to Ward, Bellfield had been "a little off colour and not his usual self".
The following day, March 23, Emma - who had been away that week housesitting for a friend in West Drayton - returned to the flat because Bellfield told her they had to move out.
She found there was no duvet cover, sheets or pillowcases on the bed - just a duvet.
She rang Bellfield about it and Mr Altman said: "His response was to say that the dog had an accident and he chucked it all. Emma did not believe him because the dog did not have accidents.
"He told her he had put the soiled linen in the rubbish. She checked some of the bins but found nothing there."
Mr Altman said a few months later, Bellfield - now at their West Drayton property - told Emma he was going to burn the bed. He said: "According to Emma, that's what he did. He burned the bed and the double duvet."
The prosecutor said Bellfield had also got rid of a red Daewoo Nexia and reported it stolen four days after Milly went missing.
Just 20 minutes after Milly was abducted, a similar car was filmed on CCTV leaving the area.
The court had heard how mobile phone records showed Bellfield had been in the Walton flat the day Milly disappeared. They also showed he had been there the day before, when he allegedly tried to abduct 11-year-old Rachel Cowles in nearby Shepperton.
Just hours after Milly vanished, he was said to have returned to Emma at her friend's home between 10.30pm and 11pm wearing fresh clothes. She told police she was woken that night by Bellfield getting dressed between 3am and 4am. Bellfield is said to have told her: "I'm going back to the flat because I'm going to have a lay in." He left taking the family's Staffordshire Bull Terrier with him, jurors heard.
The prosecutor told how Milly's uncle Brian Gilbertson had been hunting for his niece in the early hours when he came across a man matching Bellfield's description.
The man was walking a dog without a lead in a car park close to Bellfield's flat. Mr Altman said that despite using the excuse of laying in, Bellfield had been up that morning at 8.30am making a phone call.
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He asked: "Why return in the dead of night? To walk the dog? To have a lie in? If the prosecution is right that he abducted and killed Milly, then he had to dispose of her body and clean up."
Milly's remains were discovered in September 2002 in undergrowth at Yateley Heath Wood, Hants. Mr Altman said Bellfield had a link to the area having previously made trips to nearby car auctions. Milly was last seen by friend Katherine Laynes, then 15, walking home from school along Station Avenue in Walton.
The court heard Bellfield was convicted in 2008 over the murders of Marsha McDonnell, 19, Amelie Delagrange, 22, and the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy, 18.
Bellfield, formerly of West Drayton, denies Milly's kidnap and murder. He also denies trying to abduct Rachel. Trial continues.
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