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13 May 2011
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A student has described how she was left scared and crying after a man accused of murdering Milly Dowler tried to abduct her when she was aged 11.
Giving evidence in the Old Bailey trial of Levi Bellfield, Rachel Cowles, 21, said she was offered a lift in a red car in Shepperton, Surrey.
She was walking home from school in Upper Halliford Road at the time.
Bellfield, 42, denies abducting and murdering Milly and attempting to kidnap Ms Cowles in March of 2002.
The prosecution alleges that he drove off after trying to abduct Ms Cowles when he saw a police car, and that he went on to murder 13-year-old Milly the next day.
Miss Cowles told the court that she went home after the incident and her mother rang the police.
"I felt scared as I suddenly realised the enormity of what just happened," she said, adding that she had burst into tears as she spoke to a policeman on the telephone.
Milly disappeared on 21 March 2002 in Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, near where Bellfield lived in Collingwood Place.
The jury has been told she had just called her father to say she was on her way home.
Her remains were found six months later.
Bellfield, a former wheelclamper and club bouncer, was convicted at the Old Bailey in 2008 of attacks on women in west London over a period of just over two years.
He was convicted of killng Marsha McDonnell, 19, in February 2003 and Amelie Delagrange, 22, in August 2004, by striking them on the head with a blunt instrument.
In May 2004, he attempted to murder Kate Sheedy, 18, by deliberately running her over in a car.
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Giving evidence in the Old Bailey trial of Levi Bellfield, Rachel Cowles, 21, said she was offered a lift in a red car in Shepperton, Surrey.
She was walking home from school in Upper Halliford Road at the time.
Bellfield, 42, denies abducting and murdering Milly and attempting to kidnap Ms Cowles in March of 2002.
The prosecution alleges that he drove off after trying to abduct Ms Cowles when he saw a police car, and that he went on to murder 13-year-old Milly the next day.
Miss Cowles told the court that she went home after the incident and her mother rang the police.
"I felt scared as I suddenly realised the enormity of what just happened," she said, adding that she had burst into tears as she spoke to a policeman on the telephone.
Milly disappeared on 21 March 2002 in Station Avenue, Walton-on-Thames, near where Bellfield lived in Collingwood Place.
The jury has been told she had just called her father to say she was on her way home.
Her remains were found six months later.
Bellfield, a former wheelclamper and club bouncer, was convicted at the Old Bailey in 2008 of attacks on women in west London over a period of just over two years.
He was convicted of killng Marsha McDonnell, 19, in February 2003 and Amelie Delagrange, 22, in August 2004, by striking them on the head with a blunt instrument.
In May 2004, he attempted to murder Kate Sheedy, 18, by deliberately running her over in a car.
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