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Teenager Milly Dowler vanished "in the blink of an eye" on her way home from school, the trial of her alleged murderer has been told.
Levi Bellfield, 42, formerly of West Drayton, west London, denies murder and kidnapping the 13-year-old in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 21 March 2002.
Her remains were found six months later in woods in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.
Bellfield went on to murder two other women and tried to murder a third, the Old Bailey jury heard.
'Worst nightmare'Brian Altman, QC, also said Bellfield and his family had rented a flat "literally just yards away from the spot where Milly was last seen alive".
He said the day before Milly went missing, a man the prosecution allege was Bellfield had tried to abduct another schoolgirl in uniform a few miles away.
Rachel Cowles, 11, was approached by a man in a red car in Shepperton, Surrey, on 20 March that year.
Mr Altman said a man resembling Bellfield offered the schoolgirl a lift but she declined and he drove off.
He said there was "no doubt that Levi Bellfield was responsible for both".
"He has been proven to be a predatory and violent offender towards women," he said.
Amanda Dowler, who was known as Milly, disappeared as she walked home from a railway station after school.
She had just called her father to say she was on her way home.
Mr Altman told the jury Milly had "vanished" and was "gone in the blink of an eye".Continued
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