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She contacted her ex-boyfriend, Lewis
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Stuart Cundy, who had led the Bowman investigation, said: "It is my opinion that a national DNA register—with all its appropriate safeguards—could have identified Bowman's murderer within 24 hours. Instead it took nearly nine months before Mark Dixie was identified, and almost two-and-a-half years
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Shortly after 04:00, Bowman left the car and
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At 22:00 on 24 September 2005, Bowman, her older sister Nicole, and a group of friends went to Lloyd's Bar in
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until at least 2040, when he will be seventy years of age. This is among the longest minimum terms ever imposed upon a single murderer in the UK. It was subsequently revealed that Dixie was already a convicted serial
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to the murder, having taken a DNA swab from Dixie when they arrested him two weeks earlier for allegedly being involved in a brawl at the pub where he was working as a chef.
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with her after finding her on the ground outside her home, but denied murdering her; and said that he did not realize she was dead or dying when he found her.
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The calls for such a register were, however, turned down by ministers and other politicians who claimed that it would raise practical as well as
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series documented Bowman's killing, with interviews, the history of the case and reconstructions included, aired on 29 June 2009.
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watches, and took part in the Swatch
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on 8 April 2008. Another TV documentary, as part of
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651:"Man gets life for model's murder"
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293:having sex
281:Old Bailey
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214:supermodel
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