That should not be forgotten even in the distant years to come. Her mum, dad and sisters miss her terribly and her death has shattered the family."Ms Bowman, who had also worked as a hairdresser, had formerly attended the Brit School for the Performing Arts in Croydon, whose former pupils include music stars Morcheeba, Amy Winehouse and Katie Melua.. The Soham murderer Ian Huntley will not be considered for parole for at least 40 years, a High Court judge has ruled. The families of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the two 10-year-olds killed by Huntley, were disappointed he was not given a "whole-life" sentence. Kevin and Nicola Wells and Leslie and Sharon Chapman attended the court in London yesterday to hear how long their daughters' killer would spend in jail.They said in a joint statement later: "We understand that judges can only sentence on the facts of the case put before them. It read: "Sally Anne was a kind, lovable girl who brought love and warmth to all that met her.

Police appealed for anyone who had seen the items or been offered them to come forward."It may be that the person who murdered Sally Anne discarded these as he left the scene, or he may have sold them on," said DCI Cundy.A statement from her family released to the press said how much they "loved and missed her". He had recently returned from a week-long holiday with her.Detectives said the part-time model had spent Saturday night out with her sister and some friends in Croydon.She went to Lloyds Bar, before returning to a friend's house at 1am, but later returned to the town-centre bar in a cab.She was picked up from there by Mr Sproston, who dropped her off outside her home.She is believed to have been murdered between 4.15am and 4.30am on Sunday, shortly after he left.Neighbours raised the alarm after hearing the young woman - who had been wearing white high-heeled shoes, a denim skirt and white top with a butterfly motif - screaming in the early hours of the morning.During the frenzied assault, the suspect stole her white leather Prada handbag which contained a Samsung D500 mobile phone Her passport is also missing. He was of proportional build with short dark hair and clean-shaven.Mr Cundy said a witness who is believed to have seen the suspect shortly after Ms Bowman was stabbed to death near her home had come forward with details.Four men who were arrested since the murder have all been released without charge after forensic tests ruled them out of the inquiry, including Ms Bowman's former boyfriend, Lewis Sproston, 20, from Tooting, south London. Detective Chief Inspector Stuart Cundy, leading the investigation, said forensic evidence linked the incidents and that it was possible the suspect had assaulted other women since 2001. "Obviously it's possible that that suspect has committed other crimes since 2001," he said.The victim of the 2001 assault survived and her description of the attack was very similar to Ms Bowman's case, although a knife was not used.DCI Cundy urged anyone who had been the victim of an unreported sexual assault to come forward, and he warned women in the area to take extra safety precautions when going out.He said: "I want to urge women in the south Croydon and Purley area to be vigilant, to take sensible precautions, such as being aware of your surroundings, arranging how to get home when planning a night out, [and to] make sure someone knows where you are going and when you are due back." He said he could not rule out the possibility that the attacker had been lying in wait for his victim.The suspect is described as white, in his 20s or 30s, and between 5ft 9ins and 6ft tall. Her body was found on the pavement next to a skip on Sunday morning.Police yesterday advised women living in the area to be vigilant. Detectives investigating the murder of Sally Anne Bowman linked her murder in Croydon, south London, to a sexual assault committed in 2001 in nearby Purley. Ms Bowman was stabbed and sexually assaulted.

Fears that a serial sex attacker murdered an 18-year-old model grew yesterday as police warned the suspect had struck at least once before. "But the application to have permission carries with it a right to have an oral hearing So it turns into a mini-appeal process. It takes a lot of court time."He added: "Nearly 40 per cent of applications for permission to appeal are being brought by litigants in person. The vast majority of those, about 90 per cent, are cases in which we refuse permission to appeal on grounds that there is no arguable case and of those where we refuse permission there are a very large number where we say that the application is wholly without merit.". He said there was an increasing "resort to litigation, particularly in fields of public law ... which had opened up new avenues for those suffering or potentially suffering from paranoid feelings."Earlier, a leading psychiatrist told the International Bar Association's annual conference in Prague, attended by 8,000 lawyers and their families, that obsessive litigants were often paranoid schizophrenics or suffering from other personality disorders.Dr Frank McManus, a consultant psychiatrist and adviser to the UK surgeon general, said they often ended up causing more harm to themselves.Characteristics included high levels of delusion, self-hate, and a need to give meaning to an empty life.But he said that because they did not accept their conditions nor present a danger to themselves or others, they escaped the attentions of the mental health system.Lord Philips said to reduce the cost and judicial manpower needed to hear the cases of obsessive litigants, the court had introduced a requirement to have permission to appeal at all levels.