{"id":3509,"date":"2025-07-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:17:57","slug":"i-helped-catch-my-aunts-killer-amazon-primes-documentary-tells-my-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.satecsite.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/27\/i-helped-catch-my-aunts-killer-amazon-primes-documentary-tells-my-story\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I helped catch my aunt\u2019s killer \u2014 Amazon Prime\u2019s documentary tells my story\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lehanne created a fake Facebook profile to lure her aunt’s killer into a carefully crafted trap (Picture: Middle Child Productions)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lehanne Sergison was out for lunch with a friend when her phone<\/a> buzzed with an international number. Assuming it was her aunt Christine, who lived in South Africa<\/a>, she picked up, waiting to hear her cheerful Liverpudlian voice. <\/p>\n

\u2018Chris was adventurous and loved to travel,’ Lehanne tells Metro from her London<\/a> home. <\/p>\n

‘She loved to chat; she’d be next to somebody on the bus, and they’d know her whole life story. She was very much an open book.\u2019<\/p>\n

Describing her aunt as ‘warm and inspirational’, while a little chaotic at times, Lehanne says that Chris, as she was known to family, was definitely someone who lived their life to the fullest. <\/p>\n

\u2018She was a great one for finding the good in life. She was fun-loving and had good energy,\u2019 Lehanne remembers.<\/p>\n

The popular school<\/a> teacher had never had children of her own and so would treat Lehanne like the daughter she never had. ‘I was very close with her,’ she shares.<\/p>\n

So when a voice over the phone delivered the horrific news in 2014<\/a> that Chris had been raped, stabbed and strangled in her game lodge home in Thabazimbi, Lehanne was astounded. <\/p>\n

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Christine Robinson was found raped, stabbed and strangled in her South African game lodge home (Credits: Facebook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After making dazed calls to her family to let them know what happened, she later googled her aunt\u2019s name. <\/p>\n

Plastered across the internet was the excruciating reality that her lovely, generous aunt had been brutally murdered. Staff had found Christine Robinson\u2019s body on the floor, covered with a duvet and with a knife in her neck, and immediately called the police. Meanwhile, lodge gardener Andrew Ndlovu had vanished. <\/p>\n

Lehanne\u2019s first instinct was to travel from her London home to South Africa<\/a> to help in some way. However, it wasn’t possible as Lehanne, who hadn’t flown for 20 years, was chronically ill with severe asthma, so she was in and out of the hospital.<\/p>\n

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On November 25, 2024 Metro<\/strong> launched This Is Not Right, a year-long campaign to address the relentless epidemic of violence against women.<\/p>\n

With the help of our partners at Women’s Aid, This Is Not Right aims to shine a light on the sheer scale of this national emergency.<\/p>\n

You can find more articles here<\/a><\/strong>, and if you want to share your story with us, you can send us an email at vaw@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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