By Ethan Singh
A GRIEVING niece caught her aunt’s killer by flirting with him online on Facebook – and now he’s locked up for life.
Lehanne Sergison, 51, turned Facebook detective to catch the fugitive suspected of raping and murdering Christine Robinson, 59, in South Africa.
Lehanne Sergison made up a fake Facebook profile to snare her aunt’s killer[/caption]
Andrew Ndlovu, who changed his name to Andrea Imbayarwo, was found guilty of raping and murdering Christine Robinson[/caption]
Christine Robinson was raped and murdered at her lodge in South Africa[/caption]
And today Andrew Ndlovu, 32, was banged up for a minimum of 22 years after being found guilty of killing the former schoolteacher at the beautiful Rra-Ditau safari lodge in July 2014.
The heartless thug even changed his name to Andrea Imbayarwo to try and dodge arrest.
Christine’s stabbed body was found bundled inside a duvet in August 2014, with fistfuls of money she had withdrawn to pay staff, stolen.
In South Africa, local police were quick to pinpoint Imbayarwo, a gardener who had worked for Christine for two years, as a suspect.
Read More in World News
He vanished from his living quarters at the lodge on the night of the killing and was picked up on CCTV heading for the Zimbabwe border.
Police interest in the case waned as months passed, and, infuriated by a lack of help from the UK foreign office, Lehanne grew incensed that her aunt’s killer still walked free.
Lehanne, from Kent, posed as flirty alter-ego Missy Falcao to reel in Ndlovu with a honeytrap.
She began to slowly add his friends before finally plucking up the courage to message him directly and they exchanged hundreds of saucy late-night texts.
Most read in News
When Imbayarwo gradually revealed himself to be an electrician living alone in Johannesburg, Lehanne set up a date and tipped off detectives.
Unfortunately the sting was a bust as Imbayarwo failed to show, but he suddenly reappeared on social media again in February 2020.
Lehanne then posted his photo on Facebook in July 2020, telling followers: “Six years ago today this man raped and murdered my aunt Christine Robinson.”
The post was shared 70,000 times and within hours Imbayarwo was tracked down to the grounds of his new employer before being arrested.
Christine was a keen traveller and spent time teaching English in abroad before making the retreat her home with ex-mechanic husband Daniel ‘Robbie’ Robinson, before he died in 2012.
Lehanne, paid tribute to her aunt saying: “Christine Robinson was a kind, funny and brave woman who evidently fought to her last breath for her life.
“She was the complete antithesis of Imbayarwo – a violent predator who brutally raped and murdered her simply because he could.
“Justice is hard to equate when someone is killed in such horrific circumstances.
“But we will take solace that Imbayarwo will not have the opportunity to hurt rape or kill again.”
The 125 acre lodge where Christine was raped and killed[/caption]
Imbayarwo was arrested after his photo trended on social media[/caption]
Imbayarwo pleaded not guilty at Polokwane High Court in South Africa, but Jiudge Mariette Louw-Carstens found him guilty.
Judge Louw-Carstens said his crimes were “heinous, brutal and shocking” and gave him two life sentences for murder and rape.
Lehanne was unable to attend the trial and sentencing because of health problems.
In a statement she said: “We all wanted to attend, to hear his reasoning, his excuses and to look him in the eye.
“He didn’t even have the decency to plead guilty, his arrogance has been his downfall.
“He did not count on the kindness of the people of South Africa to be so alarmed by his crime they wanted to help and for police officers to help beyond their duties.
“I miss Chrissie every day and the joy she brought to everyone she met. For the past eight years there’s not been a day when I hadn’t thought about the injustice of her murder.
“The pain never subsided and only served to make me more determined to find the person responsible.
“Members of my family thought I was nuts and should let sleeping dogs lie – but there’s no way I could do that.
“Auntie Chrissie was a life force. She was one of those people who makes the world a better place.
Read More on The Sun
“Her murder has taken 8 years of my life and it will continue. In this heinous crime, we all suffer the grief day after day.
“Christine was a much loved sister, aunt, step-mother and a dear friend to many people all over the world. Her life was taken by a vile, cowardly predator.”
Source: I caught my aunt’s killer by flirting with him on Facebook – now he’s banged up for life
Category: News, World News
