Yahoo News Sally Anne Bowman killer Mark Dixie handed two more life sentences for sex attacks
A ‘monster’ killer already in jail for raping and murdering teen model Sally Anne Bowman has been handed two more life sentences for two further sex attacks.
Mark Dixie, 47, was jailed for at least 34 years in 2008 for repeatedly stabbing 18-year-old Miss Bowman, before raping her as she lay dead or dying in south London in 2005.
He finally admitted the killing to detectives in January 2015 and went on to confess to two more attacks over the course of 40 interviews, including the rape of a woman when he was aged just 16.
Dixie was sentenced to two further life terms, with a minimum of 28 years, on Friday at Southwark Crown Court, which heard Dixie may have confessed to maintain ‘a degree of notoriety’.
Police afterwards described him as a ‘monster’.
Dixie’s previous life sentence meant he was not eligible for parole until 2040, when he will be 69, and the new sentence means it will be another four years until he has a chance of being freed.
Judge Jeffrey Pegden QC told Dixie, who pleaded guilty to charges of rape, indecent assault and grievous bodily harm, that he was a serious danger to the public.
Miss Bowman’s family were in court as the verdict was read out.
Father-of-three Dixie, with a large tattoo visible under his grey polo shirt, appeared by videolink from HMP Frankland in County Durham.
He sat with his hands clasped in front of his face as prosecutor Zoe Johnson QC outlined his horrific crimes, which she said showed ‘an escalating pattern of violence towards women coupled with sexual depravity’.
After being convicted of Sally Anne’s brutal murder, Dixie wrote to police in January 2015 saying he wanted to ‘tell the truth’ about what happened to the blonde teenager, before telling detectives he had killed her in a frenzied attack.
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Chef Dixie went on to admit two further attacks.
The first victim was targeted by Dixie in her own car at an isolated south London car park in 1987, he then tied her up inside and set the vehicle on fire.
She said he ‘seemed delighted in her evident fear’ as she became hysterical, fearing she was going to die.
The woman, aged 44 at the time, managed to free herself and raise the alarm.
In a victim impact statement, she said: ‘I didn’t seek counselling, I had survived, I was in one piece. I just wanted to get on with life.’
The second attack, in 2002, saw Dixie bludgeon a woman with a chef’s steel, normally used to sharpen kitchen knives, before telling her ‘I’m going to kill you’ and molesting her.
She managed to escape when Dixie was interrupted by a man who heard her screams.
The court heard Dixie took his victim’s mobile phone during the attack and later boasted to her ex-boyfriend in a call: ‘I’ve battered her. I’ve battered her. I’ve left her by the railway.’
By the time Dixie was jailed for Miss Bowman’s murder, he had already been convicted of charges of robbery, indecent exposure and indecent assault in the UK, while his trial heard of another horrific sex attack in Australia, where he lived for six years.
Dixie has also admitted a serious sexual assault in Spain in 2005, his barrister Andrew Mooney said.
Speaking outside court after the sentence, senior investigator Chris Le Pere said of Dixie: ‘He’s a monster.’
The officer, who was part of the original team that put Dixie in jail for Miss Bowman’s murder, said: ‘Women are safer with Mark Dixie behind bars. We know he’s offended in Australia, Spain and here, and I believe he’s committed other serious offences here and abroad.
‘I would appeal to anyone with information about Mark Dixie to come forward.’
