Prosecutors and police have denied serial killer Levi Bellfield is about to be charged with the murder of Walton schoolgirl Milly Dowler.

The News of the World reported yesterday that Bellfield, 40, was set to be taken from his cell and quizzed by cops over "dramatic" new evidence.

A source is reported to have told the paper: "They're going ahead this time.

"The case is circumstantial but includes a number of new key witnesses."

But the Crown Prosecution Service and Surrey Police both denied the claim.

A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service, which was handed a file by police last year, said: "We haven't made a decision yet.

"We'll make a decision when we make a decision. There's no date lodged."

And a spokesman for Surrey Police said none of its officers had been asked to quiz Bellfield since it handed its file to the CPS.

Before Christmas prosecutors were forced to deny Bellfield was to be charged "within days" after a report in the Sun.

Surrey CPS told the Surrey Comet: "We are still reviewing the case file.

"We are still hoping to make a decision by the end of the year."

But a spokesman for the central Crown Prosecution Service said there was no timeframe in place.

Bellfield is currently serving a full life term for the murders of Hampton teenager Marsha McDonnell in 2003 and of Amelie Delagrange, 22, on Twickenham Green in 2004, along with the attempted murder of Isleworth student Kate Sheedy in 2004.

Walton teenager Milly, 13, vanished while walking home from Heathside School on March 21, 2002. Her body was found six months later by mushroom pickers in Yateley Heath, Hampshire.

Bellfield, 41, emerged as a suspect after CCTV footage, taken moments after her disappearance, showed a red Daewoo matching the car Bellfield’s then girlfriend owned driving past the spot where Milly was last seen.