Man admits brutally raping woman in attack that an innocent man has spent 12 years in prison for

Spain: The killer of Sally Anne Bowman has admitted brutally raping a woman in Spain - a crime which another man has spent nearly 12 years in prison for.

Murderer Mark Dixie, 44, is serving life for killing 18-year-old Sally Anne in south London in 2005.

But the former pub chef is also suspected of attacking three women on the Costa del Sol where he was living before Sally Anne’s murder.

In a dramatic twist in the case last week, Dixie admitted raping one of the women in Spain, MailOnline has revealed.

Dutchman Romano van der Dussen was wrongly jailed for the Spanish attacks - yet he remains behind bars to this day.

The killer of Sally Anne Bowman has admitted brutally raping a woman in Spain - a crime which another man has spent nearly 12 years in prison for.

Murderer Mark Dixie, 44, is serving life for killing 18-year-old Sally Anne in south London in 2005.

But the former pub chef is also suspected of attacking three women on the Costa del Sol where he was living before Sally Anne’s murder.

In a dramatic twist in the case last week, Dixie admitted raping one of the women in Spain, MailOnline has revealed.

Dutchman Romano van der Dussen was wrongly jailed for the Spanish attacks - yet he remains behind bars to this day.

Dixie’s handwritten, three-page statement will be lodged with the Supreme Court in Madrid as part of Romano’s appeal.

In a statement PrisonLAW, a law firm specialising in overturning miscarriages of justice, said: "Mark Dixie confessed that in 2003 he was living in Fuengirola and he remembers committing a rape that Romano van der Dussen has been convicted of.

"He also stated that he is sorry that another person has been in prison for such a long period of time for that rape.

A new analysis of DNA evidence carried out at the National Forensic Investigations Agency has also confirmed that Mark Dixie carried out that rape.

"Dixie claims he does not remember the attacks on the other two women."

Dixie was found guilty of Sally Anne's murder by a unanimous verdict after three hours of jury deliberation at the Old Bailey on February 22, 2008.