Linda Bowman, 62, revealed she was desperate to confront “disgusting pervert” Mark Dixie over her daughter Sally Anne’s 2005 murder – so she could show him her “venom”
Murdered Sally Anne Bowman’s mum today revealed she had written to killer Mark Dixie TWICE in jail – but the coward refused to respond.
Linda Bowman, 62, said she wanted to confront the “disgusting pervert” inside maximum-security Frankland Prison. She said she had tried to contact him but the monster would not respond. It came as she learned of devastating police blunders in Australia which left Dixie free to kill and rape Sally Anne in 2005.
Linda said: “He wouldn’t see me. I sent him two letters but he won’t reply. I even spoke to the prison governor. I don’t even wanna ask him why he did it because he’s a dirty disgusting pervert. I just want to look him in the eyes so he knows what he’s done, not just to me, but to every single person that knew Sally Anne.
‘My daughter Sally Anne Bowman was RAPED and KILLED by depraved monster after huge police mistake’
“New children have been born into our family and eventually they ask about the photo on the wall of Sally Anne. We have to tell them about their aunty and what happened to her. I just want to sit in front of them and tell him what I think he is. I want him to see the venom from me.” She added: “I was told that he’s given up smoking and he’s lost a lot of weight. I don’t really care. I want him to get cancer. I hope it’s really slow and painful and no pain relief.”
Sally Anne was killed in a sex attack on her driveway at 4am after returning home from a night out in Croydon, South London, to celebrate her 18th birthday. Dixie stabbed her seven times outside her flat before returning to have sex with her as she lay dead or dying. He then dumped her body next to a skip.
At his trial he claimed he found her dying or dead in the street – but claimed he sexually assaulted her corpse. The pub chef was arrested a year later after his DNA, taken following a bar brawl, matched samples on Sally Anne’s body. He was jailed for life with a minimum of 34 years in 2008.
After Sally Anne’s murder, her possessions, including her purse were taken. Linda revealed she would return to the area where her daughter was killed and scour the scene for clues. But she now believes Dixie took them with him when he left the country in the hours after Sally Anne’s murder.
Linda was also forced to exhume her daughter’s ashes after “cruel people” repeatedly desecrated her grave. Now the family has a new final resting place for Sally Anne. Linda said: “It’s a secret place where we can go and pay tribute to her. It’s special.”
It comes as a fresh probe in Australia showed serial sex predator Dixie pictured by cops in Australia just moments after allegedly attacking a woman in Victoria Park, near Perth, in 1997.
But despite the image appearing in a local paper, he was never prosecuted because the victim was not able to positively ID him. The former pub chef – who emigrated to Australia in 1993 – was eventually deported in 1999 for stripping and trying to rape a woman jogger.
Dixie evaded authorities in Australia by changing his name as he carried out a string of violent sex attacks. After an attack in Perth in 1998, Dixie left the city and moved to Dunsborough, adopting the alias Shane Turner.
There, he worked as a chef at a backpackers’ hostel which was also a cafe. He was hired by Val and Peter Newman at their new business, Cafe Vazza. Val recounted how Dixie, who she knew as Shane Turner, was a “bit of a lad”, but she would never have suspected he was a killer.
Speaking to the West Australian newspaper, Val revealed: “When he was remanded (in custody) in England for the murder, his lawyers rang me and said would I be prepared to give him a character reference,” she says.
“And I said, ‘no I can’t do that.’ I said ‘he’s a murderer’. They said he’d be very disappointed, and I said ‘I don’t care’. I couldn’t believe it when they rang.” Looking back, she remembers some young women who were staying at the backpackers in late 1998 for “schoolies” week had complained.
“A couple of them said to me ‘your chef is creepy’,” she recalls. “I said to him ‘Shane, are you coming into the property after hours?’ and he said ‘only to chat to some of the girls.’ And I said ‘no, that’s not happening.’ I told him he was too old and he was not to come in here with schoolies.”
