A convicted murderer has admitted to killing his pregnant girlfriend by stabbing her 19 times at her home in Walthamstow, northeast London.
Shaine March, 47, of Surrey Quays, London, attacked Alana Odysseos, 32, while she was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child on July 22 last year.
A court heard the couple had an argument hours before over whether to abort their unborn child.
They had an argument hours before over whether to abort their unborn child, with Ms Odysseos to have said: “I don’t want to kill my baby.”
March previously admitted to manslaughter by diminished responsibility, but denied murder.
Today, March, who had been released from prison on licence, changed his plea and admitted to the murder of Ms Odysseos.
The plea came after it emerged during legal arguments on Thursday that a defence expert due to give evidence in his trial no longer supported his diminished responsibility claim.
Following the guilty plea, Mr Justice Murray discharged the jury and lifted reporting restrictions of March’s previous conviction for murder.
Now it can be reported that March was aged 21 when he killed a man by stabbing him in the neck at a McDonald‘s restaurant, back in January 2000.
He was convicted of the murder of Andre Drummond, 17, in July that year and jailed. March was then released on licence in early 2013.
But he was recalled to jail later that year after an assault on another partner in July, and released again in February 2018.
Before the killing, March had been seeing Ms Odysseos for around four months.
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Members of the public, in Lynmouth Road, rang 999 after finding Ms Odysseos outside her home wearing a nightie and dressing gown, clutching her right side.
She was bleeding from multiple stab wounds and shouted: “Shaine stabbed me, he stabbed me. Help, help.”
March walked away and the victim died on the ground outside her home, having suffered stab wounds to her chest, stomach, pelvis, shoulders, buttocks, right arm, thighs and lower legs.
Before throwing his mobile phone in a drain, March recorded a voice note saying: “Mum, I just killed a woman, and I’m going back to jail.”
Following his arrest, March allegedly told police: “I did it. I killed her Alana Odysseos. I killed her hahahaha.”
March has been remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on October 31.
