Anthony Bowl

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Dr. Anthony Bowl is a paranoid schizophrenic killer. At Wimbledon station, he pushed Margaret Pucci in the path of the oncoming Portsmouth to London express. Witnesses saw a smiling Bowl emerge through the crowd of passengers with his arms outstretched. He gave Pucci a powerful push onto the tracks. She managed to get back onto all-fours but was hit by the train a second later. Off-duty police sergeant Andrew Freestone and American businessman Gary Youdam tackled Bowl.

At his trial at the Old Bailey, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter through diminished responsibility. On 1 December 1987, he was committed to Broadmoor Hospital

Bowl had served as a policeman in the then Rhodesia and had an estimated IQ of 150. At the time of the killing, Bowl was living in a hostel in Kingston upon Thames and was a part-time patient at mental hospital. He was trying to earn a living as a part-time maths tutor.

In 1984, Bowl attacked a CID typist with a pair of scissors outside a Liverpool police station. In 1986, Bowl knifed his fifth wife 18-year-old Austrian Martina Kreischbaum. She divorced him.

Margaret Pucci – a telephonist from Addlestone, Surrey – was aged 40 at the time of her killing. She left behind a husband Nicholas and two sons Ricardo, then aged 24, and Andre, then aged 20.^[1]

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1. ^ Paul Hooper, Shan Lancaster, Keith Deves The Sun 2 December 1987