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Sally Anne murderer loses appeal
Paul Cheston, Courts Correspondent04.02.09
THE sister of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman wept today as she told her killer to "rot in hell" for devastating her family for a second time.
An appeal by Mark Dixie, who stabbed Miss Bowman to death in Croydon in 2005, has been thrown out by three senior judges, who described his attempt to win his freedom as "entirely without merit".Sending Dixie, 38, back to prison to resume his 34-year minimum sentence, they emphasised he had received a "fair and accurate" trial.
A tearful Nicole Chiddy, 26-year-old sister of Sally Anne, said the appeal had caused suffering only 12 months after the Old Bailey trial.
She said: "Dismissing the appeal was the best thing that could have happened but every time he comes to court I genuinely feel that there might be a technicality and he would be released.
"I wish he would just leave us alone - he should accept what he did and that he got what he deserved. I hope that this is the final chapter and he will rot in hell. It was only last week we found out that he was appealing and I was devastated that it was all brought back again.
"It was unfair to go over all this again in court."
Miss Bowman was 18 when Dixie, a chef, stabbed her seven times and had sex with her when she was "dead or dying". High on drink and drugs, he had wandered the streets and attacked the model yards from her front door after her boyfriend dropped her off.
