I cannot believe this has happened again. Right now, it feels like my sister died in vain
Roger Crossan’s second killing was a “carbon copy” of his first, according to the brother of his first victim Sandra Rose Fassam.
Paul Fassam, from Manchester, said his heart sank when he discovered Crossan had killed again, and has called for an investigation into how the killer was free.
The 55-year-old said: “It is absolutely unbelievable. This woman’s situation, this murder, is a carbon copy of what happened to Sandra.
“I can’t believe this has happened again. We have all been let down badly by British justice. There needs to be an investigation to make sure this never happens again because right now it is as if my sister died in vain.”
Sandra, a 39-year-old psychiatric nurse, had been beaten by her on-off boyfriend Crossan before she was killed in 1998.
Paul had been forced to throw Crossan out of his sister’s flat in Ramsgate after he refused to leave, but months later the couple had got back together.
Paul said: “Sandra was just trying to help this guy. He would take her money; he was on the drugs then too.
“She thought because she was a mental health nurse she could help him.
“She had a black eye once, and she wouldn’t say what
happened. She wouldn’t talk to us about him, and she didn’t want us to know she was still seeing him just before she died.
“She had just had a birthday, when she died. It’s almost the same as this poor woman in Edinburgh. He stabbed her through the heart then too, and left strange notes.
“He said they had been cutting Sandra’s birthday cake and the knife slipped, and it stabbed her.
“It was obviously not true; how can that even happen? The knife he used was absolutely huge.
“My sister’s death just destroyed us. It destroyed my mum, she never got over it. And now, to know another family is going through the same thing is unbearable.”