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Kill Total: |
1 |
Kill place: |
Corydon |
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Kill date: |
25 September 2005 |
Victim(s): |
Sally Ann Bowman |
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Date of Birth: |
1971 |
Marital Status: |
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AKA: |
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Occupation: |
Pub chef |
Mark Phillip Dixie had a
string of previous convictions for sex offences, prior to
the murder of Sally Ann Bowman.
Dixie was charged with
indecently assaulting a woman when he was just 16 and
continued to get into trouble with police throughout his
life.
Police suspect he may have targeted other women while
living in Australia. He lived there from 1993 to 1999
working as a cook in bars and restaurants, eventually
being deported to England from Western Australia after
jumping out of a bush naked and making lewd suggestions to
a woman jogger.
After arriving back in England he lived in various parts
of south London, moving to Spain in 2002 and to Amsterdam
in 2006.
He has three sons, two with
the girlfriend he followed to Australia, and one with
Stacey Nivet, with whom he lived in Corydon in 2003.
Surrey Police arrested him
in connection with a pub brawl at his workplace, Ye Olde
Six Bells in Horley, and took a DNA swab. It took two
weeks for Dixie's profile to be added to the national DNA
database, five hours later he was arrested for murder.
His defence was that he
found a young girl unconscious in the street and he had
sex with her, he denied that he had anything to do with
the murder.
Police believe Dixie, was
responsible for an assault on a 36-year-old woman about an
hour before Miss Bowman was killed.
It is believed that it was
Dixie that attempted to attack this monan and steal her
mobile phone, when a taxi driver came to the woman's aid,
Dixie is thought to have run about 1,300ft to a safe place
- Blenheim Terrace, the street in which he had lived with
Miss Nivet.
Police are sure that it was
there that he saw Miss Bowman and her boyfriend Lewis
Sproston having an argument in a car, and lay in wait,
attacking moments after Mr Sproston left. Local residents
reported hearing screams in the street about 4:30am.on the
morning of 25th September. She was found dead in a pool of
blood in her own driveway, she had been stabbed
repeatedly.
During the three-week
trial, Mark Dixie denied the charge. He claimed he found
Miss Bowman dead after he had been on a drink and drugs
binge and had sex with her body
February 2008 -
Dixie is found guilty of murder, to serve a minimum of 34
years.
