Sally Anne Bowman's killer admits to two other attacks
A former pub chef who raped and murdered a teenage model has admitted offences against two other women including committing a rape when he was just 16 years old.
Mark Dixie, 46, repeatedly stabbed 18-year-old Sally Anne Bowman before raping her as she lay dying near her home in Croydon, south London, in 2005.
The warped killer was jailed for 34 years in 2008 for the horrific attack, but has now admitted to raping another woman after ambushing her in a car park in 1987 and battering another victim with a knife sharpener in 2002.
Mark Dixie (left) is serving a life sentence for the rape and murder of Sally Anne Bowman (right)
Through his trial and for years afterwards, Dixie always denied the attack on Sally Anne, but in 2015 contacted police from his jail cell and revealed he wanted to confess to that crime and also others he had previously not been linked to.Â
And today, Dixie appeared at Southwark Crown Court in London via videolink from HMP Frankland and admitted rape, causing grievous bodily harm with intent and indecent assault.
The first attack involved the rape of a woman in an isolated car park in Croydon, south London, in 1987.
He pounced on his victim before bundling the woman into her own car.
After Dixie raped her he left her tied to one of the car doors before setting light to the front sea t and items in the car.
Fortunately, the woman managed to break free and raise the alarm.
Dixie was jailed for 34 years in 2008, but has now admitted to raping another woman
Dixie also admitted a second attack in Croydon town centre in 2002, when he fractured a woman's skull by repeatedly smashing her over the head with a chef's knife sharpening tool.Â
He struck her on the head with the weapon, described as a small crowbar, before dragging her up some stairs and threatening 'I am going to kill you'.Â
He then indecently assaulted her. The attack was interrupted by a member of the public.
Dixie, who appeared wearing a sports top and glasses, will be sentenced on 22 September.
Rob Davis, from the CPS, said: 'These were serious crimes which followed the pattern of Mark Dixie's offending both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
'These offences took place many years ago and we thank both victims for supporting this prosecution.'
Dixie attacked Sally Anne Bowman soon after he returned to the UK from living in Spain.Â
Her partially nude body was left in a pool of blood just yards from her home.
Dixie was arrested the following year by chance after a fight in a pub, and was linked to the gruesome killing through his DNA.
Left, Warped killer Dixie and right, Sally Anne Bowman on her 18th birthday in Kos with boyfriend Lewis Sprotson
He was jailed for life - and told he must serve a minimum of 34 years - in February 2008 after a trial at the Old Bailey.
The killer had refused to admit to his crimes, forcing Sally Anne's mother Linda, father Paul and sisters Danielle, Nicole and Michelle, to endure the ordeal of the trial.
However, he finally confessed to police in January 2015, prosecutor Crispin Aylett QC told the court today.
Mr Aylett said: 'He wrote to to police indicating he wanted to tell them the truth of what had happened to Sally Anne, because at the trial he said that he was not responsible for her murder.
'He also admitted two other serious attacks on women that had taken place some time before.'Â Â
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