Overview
- March changed his plea to guilty at the Old Bailey after a defence expert withdrew support for his diminished-responsibility claim.
- Following the plea, the judge discharged the jury and lifted reporting restrictions, revealing March’s 2000 murder conviction and life sentence.
- Prosecutors said Alana Odysseos, 32, was stabbed 19 times at her Walthamstow home while in early pregnancy.
- Witnesses reported Odysseos pointing to March and shouting that he stabbed her, and March recorded a voice note saying he had killed a woman.
- The court heard evidence of controlling and abusive behaviour in the months before the killing, and that March was on licence after previous release and recall.