The murder detective who finally caught serial killer Levi Bellfield says he never thought Bellfield would confess to anything.

From yesterday: Serial killer Levi Bellfield finally admits abducting, raping and murdering Walton schoolgirl Milly Dowler 

DCI Colin Sutton said if Bellfield, now 47, was in the "confessing mood" he should be asked to confess to more crimes, which may include:

  • the murder of Amélie Delagrange on Twickenham Green in August 2004 which he was convicted of but never admitted
  • the attempted murder of teenager Kate Sheedy in Isleworth in May 2004,  also convicted of but never admitted to
  • the murder of Marsha McDonnell in Priory Road, Hampton in February 2003, also convicted of but never admitted
  • the attempted kidnap of Anna-Maria Rennie in Whitton in October 2001, which a 2008 jury could not reach a verdict on
  • an attack on Irma Dragoshi in Longford, near Heathrow, which the 2008 jury could also not reach a verdict on
  • an attack on Peruvian Sonia Salvatierra in the Trafalgar Road/Hampton Road area towards the end of 2002
  • an attack on Edel Harbison in the Twickenham area in April 2004
  • the murder of his teenage girlfriend Patsy Morris, 14, strangled on Hounslow Heath in 1980
  • the killling of Judith Gold in Hampstead, in 1990
  • the murders of Lin Russell and her daughter Megan in Chillenden, Kent, in 1996, which he has been linked to
  • the attempted abduction of Rachel Cowles in Shepperton. The 2011 jury which convicted Bellfield over Milly Dowler's murder was discharged before it could deliver a verdict on whether Bellfield had tried to lure Rachel Cowles into his car the day before he murdered Milly.

Some of the crimes involve similar patterns, a hammer to the head from behind, in many cases after the person had stepped off a bus.

One officer at the time of Bellfield's 2011 trial said Bellfield had committed so many crimes, including cruel and degrading treatment of women, it would take police a lifetime to investigate them all.

Police forces across the UK are believed to be reviewing murder investigations following Bellfield's confession.

Mr Sutton told Good Morning Britain today: "I never thought that Levi Bellfield would admit to anything and the cynic in me says there's a reason. He never does anything without a reason.

"He's a very manipulative, calculating sort of person. It could be he wants to clear the slate and confess to what he's done in which case we ought to look forward to many more revelations because I'm sure he committed many more crimes."

Surrey Comet:

Asked whether Bellfield might also finally confess to the murder of Amelie De Le Grange and Marsha McDonnell and attempted murder of Kate Sheedy he said: "It's not just the offences for which he has been convicted. There are a string of other attacks, assaults, sexual offences that we suspect, we know, he committed."

Surrey Comet: DCI Colin Sutton. Picture: Simon Jacobs.

Mr Sutton also said that he thought Bellfield was "preparing the ground" for a potential law change which might allow him to apply for parole, if he accepts responsibilty for his crimes.

He also told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show today: "Notwithstanding any kind of change of heart now and accepting responsibility, obviously that's good, but he's not shown any remorse so far and it doesn't actually help the parents of these young girls does it?

"People talk about closure but there's no closure when you lose someone who you love in those circumstances. It's with you forever."