Mark Dixie guilty of Sally Anne Bowman murder

Maverick · Feb 23, 2008

-shockHow can someone do a thing like that!!!-shock
Perhaps the death-penalty should be reintroduced in UK for this punk-devil

Mark Dixie guilty of Sally Anne Bowman murder

A chef obsessed with violent sex has been found guilty of murdering aspiring model Sally Anne Bowman.
The partially naked body of the 18-year-old was left in a pool of blood in her driveway in Croydon, south London. She had been stabbed seven times and subjected to a gruesome sexual attack when she was dead or dying.

Police, who believe Mark Dixie may have killed before, have released several new pictures of himDixie had denied killing her, saying he stumbled across her prone body in front of her home in Croydon, south London and had sex with her, before realising she was dead.

But the jury of seven women and five men found him guilty of the September 2005 murder in Blenheim Crescent, Croydon.

Dixie had a string of previous convictions for sex offences. Detectives believe he may even have killed while living in Australia in the 1990s.
He was brought to justice for Sally Anne's murder by chance when he was arrested nine months later after getting into a minor scuffle over a World Cup football match at Ye Olde Six Bells pub in Horley, Surrey, where he was working.
His DNA was taken and matched to the murder when it was put on the police national computer 12 days later.
But his refusal to admit the crime meant Sally Anne's mother Linda, father Paul and her three sisters Danielle, Nicole and Michelle, had to sit through a trial and hear the horrific details of the attack.

Dixie's refusal to admit his hideous crime also meant two previous victims had to give evidence against him, re-living attacks he carried out years before.
Mrs Bowman fled the court in tears at one point when Dixie was explaining how he had sex with her daughter's corpse.
His fantasising about the sex killing on an earlier occasion, when he performed a sex act over newspaper pictures of blonde Sally Anne, helped convict him.
Dixie filmed the act and the recording was discovered among his belongings in the barn of the Horley pub.

On the day of the murder, Dixie had been staying overnight with friends in a flat near to Sally Anne after spending a drug and booze-filled day celebrating his 35th birthday.
Some 400 yards from Blenheim Crescent, where he used to live, he is thought to have attacked a woman motorist whose mobile phone was stolen before a taxi driver came to her aid.
Forty minutes later, neighbours heard Sally Anne's screams at 4.20am. One saw Dixie walking around but could not see the body in the dark.
It is thought Dixie had been lying in wait after seeing the teenager arguing with her boyfriend Lewis Sproston, who had dropped her off around 4.10am to the "comparative safety" of her driveway.
After the verdict, Sally Anne's father Paul Bowman said on behalf of his family: "The last two-and-a-half years have been torturously painful and immensely difficult and I do not think we could have got through it without the love and support that has been hugely available from family and friends.
"I hope that now Sally Anne can rest in peace and those affected so deeply by her untimely and brutal death can be afforded at least the chance to begin to grieve in earnest."
He then sent a message to his daughter: "Sally Anne, you may have been taken from us, but rest assured, you will forever be missed and never forgotten."
Quoting from the Celine Dion Titanic song, he said: "In the words of the song, 'Your heart will go on'."
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xmichelly · Feb 23, 2008

wth that is just so wrong. ...
poor girl , she was only 18 =(
r.i.p. and condolences to her family ..

zero_c · Feb 23, 2008

And I thought this kind of events only happen on Law & Order: SVU.

Mark Dixie guilty of Sally Anne Bowman murder

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