He is currently behind bars for that crime, having been convicted in 2010 after the incident was reviewed by the police's cold case team.
In a similar vein, less than two months after attacking and killing Ms Warren and only a few miles from Taplow Lake, he raped a 17-year-old girl who was walking home having missed the last train. Just days after being released by police in connection with that offence, Robertson raped a 14 year-old girl who had been riding her bicycle in Farnham Royal, a crime to which he pleaded guilty in October 1981. Police described 'evil' Robertson as someone with a 'long and horrific list of previous convictions' and said it is 'a regret' there was not enough evidence at the time to charge him with the teenage girl's rape in Farnham Lane, Slough. He was also found guilty of the kidnap and rape of a 16-year-old girl, who cannot be identified, on July 16 1981. Robertson was convicted of the false imprisonment, indecent assault and murder of Ms Warren following his trial last year. 'We never found out who those people were and I still wonder to this day whether that was true,' he added
It took 34 years to identify her killer, with her parents tragically dying in 2021, before they could find out what had happened to their daughter.Īt the time the 26-year-old's body was found in Taplow Lake, Home Office pathologist Dr Benjamin Davis put forward the theory that Shani had tied her own hands and feet and taken her own life. Shani's body was found by a dog walker shortly after Easter Weekend 1987 - her wrists having been tied with a car jump lead and ankles bound by a tow rope. He then appeared to pretend to get her name wrong, asking officers: 'Shane Warren?'. The clip cut to Robertson as he asked the officer to 'clarify' something for him, before repeating Shani's name several times, as if to suggest he has no idea who she was. 'Following a re-investigation of the murder of Shani Warren, whose body was found in Lake Taplow in 1987, forensic evidence has now been obtained that identifies you as a suspect.' 'I'm here on behalf of the major crime review team at Thames Valley Police in Milton Keynes,' an officer told him. It shows a haggard-looking Robertson standing with police officers. The short clip was recorded by an officer's bodycam in 2021, after the case was re-opened in 2020, and its forensic evidence re-examined. In the clip, the convicted rapist showed no emotions as he was told by police that he has been identified as a suspect in the murder of the 26-year-old secretary.
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