In March, he made a written statement claiming to have kidnapped and murdered Chau and buried her body. Police were first given details of the alleged confession, made verbally by Bellfield to a prison visitor, in October 2022. They feel police have been too slow to establish the truth or otherwise of Bellfield’s confession. The family of Chau have said they are fully aware that Bellfield can be deceitful and manipulative, but are angry because they have believed from the start that police have not taken the disappearance of their loved one seriously. The detectives used a written statement that Bellfield gave in March as the basis for the interview, spending about three hours gaining additional claims from Bellfield about Chau’s disappearance, and the rest of the time gaining extra information about attacks he claims to have carried out on other women in London and Surrey.Ī second day had been set aside for the Met detectives to interview Bellfield, but it was decided it was not needed.Ĭhau was a computer studies student at Thames Valley University and was last seen in Ealing, west London, on 16 April 1999. He also gave details of how he claims to have kidnapped Chau, and horrifying details of her final hours alive. They asked Bellfield to point to the area where he claims to have buried Chau’s body, which he did. The detectives brought a map of the west London area with them. The detectives, from a Met team specialising in unsolved homicides, started by reading Bellfield the criminal caution, warning him that anything he said could be used against him at a trial. Seven months after Bellfield first made the claims about Chau to a prison visitor, on Tuesday two detectives interviewed him in prison, taking portable audio recording equipment with them.
Police are taking Bellfield’s claims that Chau was his fourth murder victim “extremely seriously”, a source said, after the six-hour interview in HMP Frankland in Durham. At this time we will not be providing an ongoing commentary. We can confirm we remain in contact with Elizabeth Chau’s family. On Thursday, for the first time, the Metropolitan police confirmed their renewed interest in Bellfield and said: “On Tuesday, a 54-year-old male was interviewed under caution.
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