The Bus Stop Killer- by Geoffrey Wansell. A book Review by Liam Miles.


Geoffroy Wansell is a leading playwright and political author. He taught British Politics at the University of Sheffield. In 2011, he published ‘the bus stop killer’ this book is all about Levi Bellfield now identified as Yusuf Rahim.

The book details a heavy focus upon his victims, their personalities and characteristics which made them targeted to be battered, raped and murdered by Levi Bellfield. The context is very verbally graphic, detailed and emotive. Throughout reading the book, I became disturbed by what I was reading on the account of what Bellfield did to his numerous victims. The stalking, the verbal sexual confrontation of young girls, his fascination of young school girls, and the ‘image’ of a school girl. Arguably he is a paedophile. Not only this, details of how he treated his numerous sexual and committed relationships which were evidently controlling, toxic and abusive. Many thoughts ran through my head as to why the women in question stayed by his side. Was it fear? Manipulation? Commitment to keeping a family structure going with their children? Or lack of alternative visions which would have been dismantled by Bellfield. He was a man who expected his ‘girlfriends’ to have only eyes for him and to commit to only him. Some components are more obvious than others. I have learned a lot about Bellfield’s character through reading this deeply informative book by Geoffroy Wansell.

It is clear to me that Bellfield’s behaviour was extremely revealing. He had a clear loathing of women, a clear agenda to use them (especially young women) as sexual conquests and to empower himself by stripping them of any personal power/control over their own lives. He was a deeply toxic man who hated the idea of a woman ‘disobeying’ him and ‘fighting back’. He clearly displays traits of narcissism which was arguably backed up by his occupational choices of wheel clamping and as a night time bouncer. Both jobs require an element of confrontation and empowerment.

All I can conclude Is that we need to take these telling signs in the highest of importance. For the sake of identifying traits in other individuals who could possess the narcissism, sexual sadism and ability to kill innocents.

Throughout reading the ‘bus stop killer’, my heart and mind continuously went out to his victims, their families and friends. 

May Levi Bellfield never see the light of day again.

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