The murderer of teenage model Sally Anne Bowman has a £50,000 bounty on his head, her mother claims.

Mark Dixie, who raped 18-year-old Sally Anne as she lay dead or dying is currently in Long Lartin prison, Worcestershire, serving a life sentence.

Dixie was moved from Belmarsh Prison to HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire after inmates at the south London jail vowed to maim him after he was caged in February 2008.

And now, according to Sally Anne’s mother and sources close to Dixie, he is now living in fear of being stabbed or beaten to death after a price was put on his head.

Linda Bowman said: “I have it from a reliable source that there is a £50,000 bounty on Dixie’s head.”

The 47-year-old, who was left devastated by the death of her daughter, said she would never forgive Dixie.

She said: “Why is he still breathing and looking forward to his Christmas dinner when all we have is an empty space at the table on Christmas Day."

A prison source said Dixie, who is housed in the maximum security wing of HMP Long Lartin, was “genuinely worried” someone could get to him.

He said: “Dixie is a coward who preys on vulnerable women and attacks them, sexually and physically. He is not well liked, especially among his fellow prisoners so this has come as no real surprise.”

He added: "He was moved from Belmarsh because other prisoners had threatened to maim him and now the same thing has happened at Long Lartin.

“He’s a marked man.”

Dixie, who pleaded not guilty to murder, told the Old Bailey he had stumbled across Sally Anne’s body outside her home and had sex with her before realising she was dead in September 2005.

The court heard how Dixie, a chef branded “repulsive” by Judge Gerald Gordon, had a 20-year history of sexual violence before he was caged for a minimum of 34 years for the teenager's murder.

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