Levi Bellfield lying over Elizabeth Chau murder confession, Met decides

Police will not seek warrant to dig up London site where serial killer claims to have buried Chau

Detectives have decided that the convicted serial killer Levi Bellfield was lying when he made repeated sworn confessions to the kidnap, murder and burial of Elizabeth Chau, who went missing in 1999, the Guardian has learned.

The decision means the Metropolitan police will not seek a warrant to dig up the west London site where Bellfield claimed to have buried the remains of Chau, 19, a computer studies student.