A convicted murderer who fatally stabbed his pregnant girlfriend 23 times after being released on licence has been jailed for a minimum of 42 years.

Shaine March, 47, murdered 32-year-old mum-of-two Alana Odysseos at her home in Walthamstow, east London, in July 2024.

Alana was in the early stages of pregnancy with her third child, which was conceived with her killer.

The incident disturbingly mirrored another act of brutality carried out by March on another woman after his release.

He was locked up in 2013 for stamping on the stomach of his then-girlfriend, who was also pregnant, months after being set free on licence from a life sentence for murder.

That sentence was imposed for March’s fatal stabbing of a 17-year-old at a McDonald’s in south London in 2000, when the killer was 21.

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