Chef found guilty of model's murder (bbc news)
Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 7:54 am
Chef found guilty of model's murder
Press Assoc. - 1 hour 17 minutes agoSex-obsessed Mark Dixie has been found guilty of murdering model Sally Anne Bowman.
The partially naked body of the 18-year-old was left in a pool of blood in her driveway. She had been subjected to a gruesome sexual attack when she was dead or dying from seven stab wounds.
Sally Anne's family cheered as the verdict was delivered.
Dixie, a 37-year-old chef with an obsession with violent sex, denied killing her, claiming he found the teenager, thought she had passed out drunk and had sex with her.
He told the Old Bailey he did not realise she was dead until after he had sex with her in front of her home in Croydon, south London.
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.
Dixie's refusal to admit his crime also meant two previous victims had to give evidence against him, reliving attacks he carried out years before.
Press Assoc. - 1 hour 17 minutes agoSex-obsessed Mark Dixie has been found guilty of murdering model Sally Anne Bowman.
The partially naked body of the 18-year-old was left in a pool of blood in her driveway. She had been subjected to a gruesome sexual attack when she was dead or dying from seven stab wounds.
Sally Anne's family cheered as the verdict was delivered.
Dixie, a 37-year-old chef with an obsession with violent sex, denied killing her, claiming he found the teenager, thought she had passed out drunk and had sex with her.
He told the Old Bailey he did not realise she was dead until after he had sex with her in front of her home in Croydon, south London.
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.
Dixie's refusal to admit his crime also meant two previous victims had to give evidence against him, reliving attacks he carried out years before.