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| Woman recalls model's body find | Woman recalls model's body find |
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| A neighbour has told a court of the moment when she discovered the body of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman. | A neighbour has told a court of the moment when she discovered the body of murdered model Sally Anne Bowman. |
| Miss Bowman, 18, was stabbed seven times, sexually assaulted and bitten near her home in Croydon, south London, in September 2005. | |
| Ann Hardy told the Old Bailey she heard screams in the night, but went outside in the morning after seeing a pair of legs on the ground behind a skip. | Ann Hardy told the Old Bailey she heard screams in the night, but went outside in the morning after seeing a pair of legs on the ground behind a skip. |
| Chef Mark Dixie, 37, of no fixed address, denies murdering Miss Bowman. | Chef Mark Dixie, 37, of no fixed address, denies murdering Miss Bowman. |
| Mr Dixie denies murdering Miss Bowman, but says he had sex with her corpse after finding the body. | |
| The court heard Mrs Hardy had been woken in the night by two screams which she thought came from a vixen or a girl on 25 September. | The court heard Mrs Hardy had been woken in the night by two screams which she thought came from a vixen or a girl on 25 September. |
| I knelt, just as a natural thing, and said 'Oh, poor darling' Ann Hardy | |
| Early in the morning she looked out her bedroom and saw "a pair of white legs", the jury was told. | Early in the morning she looked out her bedroom and saw "a pair of white legs", the jury was told. |
| She went outside to investigate, and told the court: "I just felt I knew what I would see. | She went outside to investigate, and told the court: "I just felt I knew what I would see. |
| "It was not going to be a model or a mannequin. I just related it to the screams." | "It was not going to be a model or a mannequin. I just related it to the screams." |
| Asked what she saw, Mrs Hardy said: "Sally Anne's body." | Asked what she saw, Mrs Hardy said: "Sally Anne's body." |
| She added: "I knelt, just as a natural thing, and said 'Oh, poor darling'." | |
| Dragging sound | Dragging sound |
| Earlier, the court heard from another neighbour June Cumpper, who said she was woken by screams in the night and looked out of the window. | Earlier, the court heard from another neighbour June Cumpper, who said she was woken by screams in the night and looked out of the window. |
| The jury heard she saw a man looking from side to side and who crossed the road before she lost sight of him. | The jury heard she saw a man looking from side to side and who crossed the road before she lost sight of him. |
| She said she heard a "dragging" sound and thought someone was trying to place something in the skip. | She said she heard a "dragging" sound and thought someone was trying to place something in the skip. |
| The prosecution alleges Mr Dixie stabbed Miss Bowman, moved away and then went back to drag her body further down the driveway and had sex with her. | |
| Pathologist Peter Jerreat told the court she died as the result of haemorrhaging due to multiple stab wounds. | |
| She had been stabbed three times in the neck and then four times in the abdomen as she lay dead or dying on the ground. | |
| Dr Jerreat said she could have been unconscious in 20 seconds and dead in less than two minutes. | |
| The trial continues. |