Lehanne Sergison, now 51, spent years writing to her aunt's
killer online and tried to set up a sting operation, after becoming frustrated
with the lack of progress on the case.
Yesterday, Christine Robinson's killer, Andrea Imbayarwo,
32, was found guilty of attacking his 59-year-old employer at her 125-acre
Rra-Ditau lodge in Limpopo, South Africa.
He was employed at the game park as a gardener, and fled to
Zimbabwe after staff found Ms Robinson wrapped in a duvet, and her throat
slashed.
The year of her aunt's death, Ms Sergison, from Kent,
created a petition calling for action to find her killer. She also began
searching for him online.
Four years later, in 2018, she found he was active on
dating sites and living in South Africa again.
Ms Sergison created a false identity on Facebook under the
name of Missy Falcao — a combination of her dogs' names — and connected with
some of his friends.
She then approached Imbayarwo directly, flirting and
telling him he was 'so hot' and had 'sexy eyes'.
'I told him I was a stewardess as it meant I wasn't always
contactable,' she told The Times.
'It was hard as this man murdered my aunty. I had
nightmares when we were messaging each other.'
The pair arranged a date in Johannesburg, and Ms Sergison
contacted the South African police, hoping that they would organise a sting
operation.
'He wanted to speak to me on the phone so I spoke to the
South African police and they got a female officer to contact him. But it
didn't work out,' she told the paper.
After the first set up, she tried to contact him under more
false names, but her messages were ignored.
She wrote a Facebook post in 2000 naming him as the killer
and more than 70,000 people shared the post, and it was picked up by Ian
Cameron, an anti-crime activist in South Africa.
Mr Cameron was approached by Imbayarwo's then employer, and
arrested at his Johannesburg staff accommodation a few hours later.
Ms Sergison said tears were shed after she got the call to
say Imbayarwo had been arrested. Ms Robinson was a former teacher from
Liverpool. She bought the game park, located near the Botswana border, with her
husband Daniel, also known as Robbie, in 2002. She continued to run the
30-guest lodge after his death in 2012.
Imbayarwo claimed he had a sexual relationship with Ms
Robinson during his trial, and denied a range of charges including murder and
rape.
He is being sentenced tomorrow. Daily Mail
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