The Double Killer Who Should Never Have Been Free: David Baxendale
A mother of three meets a stranger one afternoon in Surrey. Hours later she is dead on her living-room floor. The man who killed her has already murdered once before — in Spain — and the system had let him walk free.
In this episode of A True Crime Podcast, Alexander Lawson tells the full story of David Baxendale: a two-decade history of knife violence, a 2001 murder in Spain, a catastrophic release back into the UK, the ferocious killing of Sarah Thomas in 2010, the flight to the Costa del Sol, the whole-life sentence, and his death behind bars in 2026.
A case that asks the hardest question…
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