Model’s ashes exhumed after grave attacks
The mother of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman has revealed the 18-year-old’s ashes were exhumed after “cruel people” repeatedly desecrated her grave.
Linda Bowman was forced to guard her daughter’s resting place after it began to be vandalised at night.
The mother told how the site was damaged four times in six months, including occasions when the headstone was smashed and ghoulish cards were left at the site. Miss Bowman was raped and stabbed to death by serial violent sexual predator Mark Dixie, now 46, outside her home in 2005.
She was laid to rest in a south London cemetery. “We had to have Sally Anne’s remains exhumed and her ashes brought home because someone kept destroying her grave and her headstone,” Mrs Bowman told the Daily Mirror.
The incidents included the teenager’s grave being covered with dirt and dead flowers.