Daughter of horror murder victim talks of her grief...and her anger
A DAUGHTER is demanding to know why a crazed killer was set free—to hack her mother's body horrically into 16 pieces.
Evil Glyn Dix, who was released from a prison psychiatric wing, slaughtered his 54-year-old wife Hazel then chopped up her body using a power tool and a hacksaw after returning from a romantic walk.
Her daughter Tracie Gower, 34, said her mum wed the maniac after he convinced her he was innocent of a previous slaying — in which he tied a 33-year-old woman to a tree in the woods before raping and shooting her.
Tears
Distraught Tracie said: "Someone decided to let this man out to kill again. What he did to my mum was straight out of a horror film.
"I've written to the Home Office asking why he was allowed out. I want to know why nobody warned us of his past."
Dix, 50, who has pleaded guilty to Hazel's murder, had served the last few months of his life sentence in Bristol jail's psycho ward before being set free.
Hazel met Dix in the jail after he befriended her son Adam six years ago, while both were in Gloucester prison.
The couple married before Dix's release. But Tracie boycotted the ceremony at Redditch register office, Worcs, five years ago.
She fought back tears as she explained: "I couldn't stand the idea of having a killer as a stepdad. But Mum wouldn't listen.
"I'd never met him but felt it was a terrible mistake. The family asked questions but got no answers. He convinced Mum he wasn't guilty.
"Despite our warnings, she married him believing he'd been wrongfully jailed. Yet it was clear he was a menace to society.
"I asked Mum just before the wedding, ‘Do you know what you're doing?' and she replied, ‘He's the man for me'."
What neither woman knew was that in 1980 Dix murdered mum-of-two Pia Overbury in a copse at Hartpury, Gloucs, and given a life sentence.
Tracie said: "I only met Dix after mum married. At first he struck me as devoted to her. There were never any telltale signs of what he'd do.
"That's why we think it was a ritual killing, he'd planned it all."
Her brother Adam, 27, was serving six months for driving offences when Dix befriended him.
He stumbled across the killing scene last June, finding his mum's remains scattered across the kitchen of her home in Redditch
Dix was still crouched naked over her body, which he had mutilated using 17 weapons.
Animal
Now Adam is tortured because he introduced his mum to her killer. "I have sleepless nights," he said. "If I'd never gone to jail I'd never have met this animal and Mum would be alive today.
"I knew he was in for murder but couldn't find out anything about his past.
"He told me he was ex-SAS and had been fitted up after a woman hired him to kill her violent ex-partner. He also conned my mum. By marrying her, he was able to get out of jail on licence — he repaid her by butchering her."
Recalling the murder scene, Adam said: "I raced to a neighbour's home to raise the alarm.
"When I went back Dix looked at me with evil eyes and said, ‘Now we can be one.'
"I grabbed him and punched his head. I wanted to kill him.
Satanic
"He tried to stab me but then the police burst in. My mum gave him everything and he took her life—and ruined mine."
The family say that after her marriage, ex-college janitor Hazel changed from a happy-go-lucky person into a haggard figure.
They revealed that demented Dix daubed murals on walls showing a scantily-clad woman on her knees and a hooded knifeman. And Tracie said: "I'm convinced he was into the occult. I think he killed mum in some kind of sick, satanic sacrifice."
Dix, who admitted murder at Worcester Crown Court, has had his sentencing deferred until next month. The family will be there to see justice done.
But they want the Home Office to assure them that sick killers like Dix are never freed again.
The Parole Board said the case would be referred to a review committee. A spokeswoman added: "Regrettably, no matter how much care we take, a few people will re-offend.
"When they do we try to look at what lessons can be learned."
Tracie said: "This man has destroyed the lives of two families. Unless action is taken the same mistake will happen.
"And other innocent lives will be taken by evil men like him."
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