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An “evil” double murderer who stabbed and slashed his pregnant girlfriend 23 times after being released from prison on licence has been jailed for at least 42 years.
Alana Odysseos, 32, was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child when she was murdered by “lifer” Shaine March at her home in Walthamstow, east London, early on July 22 2024.
March, 47, of Surrey Quays, south-east London, had admitted her murder on the seventh day of his trial after an expert no longer supported his claim of diminished responsibility.
Jurors in his t
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