Mark Dixie Murder of Sally Anne Bowman

mark philip dixie (born 24 september 1970) born in streatham. when 18 months old, parents separated. when 8, mother remarried; had 2 sons new husband. dixie took stepfather s surname, mcdonald.

dixie s criminal record begins in 1986. between , 1990, found guilty of robbery, burglary, assaulting police officer, indecent assault, indecent exposure , assault occasioning actual bodily harm. lived in australia january 1993 until deported uk in april 1999 after being fined indecent exposure. lived in london until moving spain in 2002. moved england in 2003.

dixie later started work chef @ ye olde 6 bells pub in horley, surrey. arrested on 10 june 2006 in nearby crawley, west sussex, after being involved in fight while watching england vs trinidad , tobago world cup football match. dna taken , matched of bowman s killer.

dixie denied murder. part of defence claimed had spent night drinking , taking drugs, , had gone out buy more cocaine. claimed have come across body of bowman, murdered, said, third party, , had sex after killed.

dixie s dna matches left @ sexual assault in 2001, believed masturbated in front of woman in telephone booth.

in october 2006, dixie s dna sent western australia tested against of dna evidence in claremont serial killer case between 1996 , 1997, believed in area @ time of killings, , may have committed them. @ trial murder of bowman, unnamed thai woman gave evidence dixie had stabbed , raped in australia in june 1998 in subiaco, western australia whilst dixie burgling house; dixie has yet formally charged attack, though dna sample woman s underwear has been matched him.