The family of 18-year-old Sally Anne Bowman, who was murdered in 2005, wait for a verdict on her death outside the Old Bailey in London last year. Her killer might not have been caught without DNA evidence.Photograph: Getty Images
CHEF MARK DIXIE believed that he had got away with murder until the night he went to watch a World Cup match in 2006 in Sussex and got into a fight. Questioned by police, he gave a DNA swab, writes MARK HENNESSY London Editor
Once taken, the swab was run through databases, and quickly linked him to the scene of the brutal murder of 18-year-old Sally Anne Bowman, who was found lying naked on the drive of her Croydon home in south London in 2005.
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Meanwhile, Steve Wright, the so-called Suffolk Strangler, who killed five Ipswich prostitutes within weeks in late 2006, was captured when DNA found at the scene of one killing was linked to a sample he gave after he stole £40 from a bar till.
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