{"id":236262,"date":"2025-10-31T16:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236262\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T16:44:07","slug":"shaine-march-man-who-stabbed-pregnant-girlfriend-to-death-after-release-for-teens-murder-jailed-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/236262\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaine March: Man who stabbed pregnant girlfriend to death after release for teen’s murder jailed | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A convicted murderer who killed his pregnant girlfriend by stabbing and slashing her 23 times at her home in Walthamstow, northeast London, has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 42 years.<\/p>\n

Shaine March, 47, of Surrey Quays, London<\/a>, attacked Alana Odysseos, 32, when she was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child on 22 July last year.<\/p>\n

Today, March appeared in court by video link, from Belmarsh prison, after initially refusing to come to the Old Bailey.<\/p>\n

He did not react as Ms Odysseos’s family spoke of the devastation he had caused them.<\/p>\n

‘It’s only sentencing’<\/p>\n

Defence barrister, Sandip Patel KC, said March had refused to leave his cell and had told prison staff: “It’s only sentencing.”<\/p>\n

March, who previously admitted to manslaughter by diminished responsibility but denied murder, changed his plea and admitted to the murder of Ms Odysseos on the seventh day of his trial.<\/p>\n

Following the guilty plea, Mr Justice Murray discharged the jury and lifted reporting restrictions of March’s previous conviction for murder.<\/p>\n

It could then be reported that March was aged 21 when he killed a man by stabbing him in the neck at a McDonald’s restaurant in January 2000.<\/p>\n

He was convicted of the murder of Andre Drummond, 17, in July that year and jailed before being released on licence in early 2013.<\/p>\n

He was then recalled to jail later that year after an assault on another partner in July, and released again in February 2018.<\/p>\n

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\n Shaine March was sentenced on Friday. Pic: Metropolitan Police\/PA<\/p>\n

Before the killing, March had been seeing Ms Odysseos for around four months.<\/p>\n

The court heard they had an argument hours before over whether to abort their unborn child, with Ms Odysseos heard to have said: “I don’t want to kill my baby.”<\/p>\n

Members of the public in Lynnmouth Road rang 999 after finding Ms Odysseos outside her home wearing a nightie and a dressing gown, clutching her right side.<\/p>\n

She was bleeding from multiple stab wounds and shouted: “Shaine stabbed me, he stabbed me. Help, help.”<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.”<\/p>\n

After his arrest, March told police: “I did it. I killed her Alana Odysseos. I killed her hahahaha.”<\/p>\n

‘I want him to die in prison’<\/p>\n

The victim’s mother, Karen Cronin, said: “Alana, my beautiful kind and loving daughter, left this earth in the most callous and brutal way imaginable.<\/p>\n

“The person who has done this to my daughter – who I don’t think deserves the respect of using his name – is evil and a coward. Why did he have to resort to the level of violence he used?<\/p>\n

“The anger I feel towards him doesn’t feel Christian so I can no longer go to Church. I will never have forgiveness in my heart.<\/p>\n

“I want him to die in prison. He should never be let out.”<\/p>\n

‘We will never get over our loss’<\/p>\n

Father, Alan Yates, said his daughter changed after meeting March and became a “timid vulnerable person who was not our Alana”.<\/p>\n

He said: “I hope a sentence is given that means Shaine March will never cause another family the pain and loss we are suffering. It is unimaginable and we will never get over our loss.<\/p>\n

“Every day I wonder why he didn’t walk away. Alana was pregnant with his child. This meant nothing to him.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A convicted murderer who killed his pregnant girlfriend by stabbing and slashing her 23 times at her home…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-236262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}