Mark Dixie linked to sex attacks in Australia An Australian criminologist is calling for one of Britain’s most notorious sex killers to be investigated over unsolved crimes in Western Australia. Mark Dixie, 50, was jailed for at least 34 years over the 2005 stabbing murder and rape of 18-year-old model and hairdresser Sally Anne Bowman in Croydon, south London. Sally Anne, who was born in Carshalton and attended Cheam High School, was attending the Brit School in Croydon before she was murdered. He killed the young model by stabbing her multiple times and subjecting her to a horrific sexual assault. The father of three, who worked as a pub cook, finally admitted the killing to detectives in January 2015.
By Press Association 2021
Convicted killer Mark Dixie
An Australian criminologist says one of Britain’s most notorious sex killers should be investigated over unsolved crimes in Western Australia.
Mark Dixie, 50, was jailed for at least 34 years over the 2005 stabbing murder and rape of 18-year-old model and hairdresser Sally Anne Bowman in Croydon, south London.
The father of three, who worked as a pub cook, finally admitted the killing to detectives in January 2015. He also confessed to two more London attacks which led to two more life sentences – raping a woman in 1986 when he was only 16, and bludgeoning a woman with a knife sharpener and threatening to kill her in 2002.
Share He should have been returned with a police escort and documentation that explained why they had suspicions about him but instead they just stuck him on a plane and said see you later. He was a known sex attacker when he was deported from Australia but he wasn t put on any register. We could have had his DNA at that time which would have meant he would have been caught before he killed Sally Anne.
Dixie murdered Sally Ann Bowman (pictured), raping her as she lay dying from numerous stab wounds he had inflicted
Dixie was arrested the following year by chance after having a fight in a pub and was linked to Ms Bowman s gruesome murder through his DNA.
The mother of Sally Anne Bowman, the 18-year-old raped and murdered by Mark Dixie in 2005, has said her daughter would still be alive if Australian police had “done their job properly”. The comments come amid calls for a fresh investigation to be launched into the serial sexual offender’s time in Western Australia in the 1990s, when he was arrested three times but only charged for a more minor offence and never added to any kind of register. Dixie, now 50, was sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for brutally attacking and killing Bowman, an aspiring model, in Croydon, south London.