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Kill Total: |
3+ |
Kill place: |
London |
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Kill date: |
15 July 1992
3 November 1993
3 November 1993 |
Victim(s): |
Rachael Nickell
Samantha Bissett
Jazmine Bissett |
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Date of Birth: |
1966 |
Marital Status: |
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AKA: |
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Occupation: |
Storeman |
August 1986, Napper
stopped and arrested for possession of a loaded air
weapon in a public place. Given 12 month conditional
discharge.
August 1989, Rape - This is dropped during
trial in October 1995.
November 1989: Napper's mother tells police that
Napper confessed to a rape in Plumstead Common. Nothing
is done.
March 1992,
attempted rape, Napper please guilty at the Old Bailey
in October 1995. Attempted rape of third victim a week
later. Napper admits the offence at the Old Bailey in
October 1995
May 1992, Fourth
rape. Napper pleads guilty at the Old Bailey in October
1995
15th July 1992,
23-year-old Rachel Nickell was attacked as she
walked with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common in
south-west London. A passer-by found Alex clinging to
his dead mother's blood-soaked body, repeating the words
"Wake up, Mummy.
She had been stabbed 49
times.
3rd November 1993, Samantha Bisset, 28, was
stabbed to death and brutally assaulted in her flat in
Plumstead, alongside her 2 year old daughter Jazmine.
Plumstead High Street resident Robert Napper, aged 38,
was arrested a year later and charged with their
murders. He was sent to Broadmoor.
Described as a loner,
Napper was also found to have raped and battered an
Eltham woman in May 1992 and was a serial Peeping Tom.
Such was the brutality of Napper's attack the police
photographer who recorded the scene was off sick for two
years and Samantha Bisset's mother died shortly
afterwards of a heart attack.
1994, Colin Stagg
from south-west London, went on trial for
the murder of Rachael Nickell, but the case was thrown
out after evidence from an undercover policewoman was
ruled inadmissible.
Mr Stagg spent 13 months in custody. In 2008, he was
awarded £706,000 compensation from the Home Office.
Napper had originally been on the list of suspects for
Miss Nickell's murder, but this was not followed up as
Colin Stagg had been arrested.
October 1995, Robert
Napper admits the two manslaughters, a rape and two
attempted rapes at the Old Bailey. Another rape charge
is dropped.
2004, New DNA
techniques become available, particles taken from the
scene of Rachael's murder are now analysed, and the link
to Napper is made.
November 2007, After
a cold case review, Robert Napper was charged with the
murder of Rachael Nickell.
Thursday 24 January
2008, Napper appeared at the old Bailey in London,
charged with the murder, he pleased not guilty.
Thursday 18 December 2008, Robert Napper pleaded
guilty to manslaughter of Rachael Nickell on the grounds of diminished
responsibility, at the Old Bailey in
London.
He will continue to be held in Broadmoor,
indefinitely.
Police have apologised to
Colin Stagg.
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