TV bailiff ‘Fat Brian’ from Channel 5 show Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away was best pals with Milly Dowler murderer Levi Bellfield
THE star bailiff of TV’s Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away! was the best friend of Milly Dowler murderer Levi Bellfield.
Brian O’Shaughnessy, 39, was also once quizzed over a joint sex allegation with the serial killer.
The two who met as doormen were “thick as thieves for five or six years”, a source said.
Brian, who repossesses debtors’ goods and money for courts on the Channel 5 show but was exposed as having been chased over not paying a bill of almost £5,000 for a new bathroom himself , also worked with Bellfield for a wheel-clamping firm.
Known as Fat Brian, he was quizzed in 2005 as a result of inquiries into Bellfield, 48.
There is no suggestion he knew about his crimes.
A source said: “Brian became Bellfield’s number one sidekick.
“As Levi did with lots of people, he got Brian in his thrall.
“When Brian was arrested he wanted to get his life sorted out.”
Debt recovery worker O’Shaughnessy, of Camberley, Surrey, told The Sun: “I was an associate of Levi Bellfield.
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“I don’t condone what he has done.
“It is disgusting and vile.”
Brinkworth Films, which makes Can’t Pay?, said Brian told producers he knew Bellfield but had no idea of his crimes during their “association”.
Bellfield got a whole-life term in 2011 for killing Milly, 13, in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, in 2002.
At his Old Bailey trial, he was already serving life for murdering French student Amelie Delegrange, 22, in 2004, and Marsha McDonnell, 19, in 2003.
