A recently surfaced photo of convicted murderer Mark Dixie taken near the scene of an attack on a woman in Victoria Park shows how close he was to being caught before he was deported.
As part of a Sunday Times investigation into Dixie's life in Western Australia between 1996 and 1999, a 1997 Canning Times newspaper article was found in the State Library archives, along with a photograph taken by police in the hours after the woman was attacked overnight. The attacker fled as she screamed.