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Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has today vowed to bring in new laws 'quickly' to stop jailed serial killer Levi Bellfield from using legal aid to get married behind bars.
The 54-year-old brute, who is known to have murdered at least three people including 13-year-old Milly Dowler, has got engaged to a regular female visitor at HMP Frankfield, Durham, where he is serving a whole-life tariff.
News of his proposed nuptials with the blonde woman, who is in her 40s, sparked outrage when they were revealed last year. The Government has already vowed action, with Bellfield boasting his fight against them is 'costing me f*** all'.
Deputy Prime Minister Mr Raab - who is set to unveil his new Victim's Bill in the coming weeks, which would ban people serving whole life terms getting hitched behind bars - branded Bellfield's bid to use taxpayer money as 'wrong'.
He told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast: 'Let me just be crystal clear with you, Nick – I don't think it is appropriate and I'm going to change the law.
Serial killer Levi Bellfield (pictured) is currently serving two whole life tariffs for murdering at least three people
Collision course: Justice Secretary Dominic Raab says he will introduce new laws to stop the jailed serial killer from using tax-payers' money to fund his fight to marry his lover behind bars
'But I also think there's a question around the risk to anyone that would marry an offender as egregious as in this case Levi Bellfield.
'What we're protectively do to make sure vulnerable people aren't subject to that element of risk. So on both factors, I'm committed to doing what we can to prevent that taking place.'
Pressed on how rapidly the change could be introduced, Mr Raab insisted: 'I plan to move quickly.'
Bellfield, who is serving two whole-life terms for the murder of 13-year-old Milli, well as Marsha McDonnell, 19, and Amelie Delagrange, 22, has demanded prison bosses bend to his request to get married.
A letter sent on his behalf by law firm Carringtons claims the delay in approving his marriage request is 'unlawful' and is a breach of the 1983 Marriage Act and the European Convention on Human Rights, The Sun reports.
A source told the paper: 'Bellfield's laughing that he's getting all this help for free. It's alarming that, as things stand, his barristers have the law on their side.
'The prison has kicked this into the long grass because they don't want it to happen, but legally they will probably have to allow it.'
A spokesperson for the Prison Service told outlet: 'The application is being considered.'
Some 60 prisoners, many of them serving long jail terms, applied to marry last
