Tragic Lady in the Lake's parents will never see justice for murdered daughter after man charged 34 years on
TRAGIC Shani Warren’s parents will never see justice for their beloved daughter as they died before a breakthrough in the case 34 years on from her murder.
A pensioner was yesterday charged with the murder of the Lady in the Lake, more than three decades since her death.
Joseph and Elsie Warren both passed away earlier this year, before anyone was ever charged for Shani’s murder in Taplow, Bucks, in 1987.
The 26-year-old’s body was discovered submerged and gagged in a lake in the leafy village.
Donald Robertson, 66, has now been charged with the murder, false imprisonment and indecent assault of Shani on 17 April 1987.
Both of her parents died this year during the global pandemic having never discovered who killed their beloved daughter.
Her aunt Mavis Caney told The Sun: “My sister and her husband are now dead.
“You cannot get away from it. The person who will be most affected is their eldest son.
“He will be devastated because you can’t get away from it.
“You step aside and you put the emotion aside but you just know what people are going to go through.
“You can never get away from it. If you look on the web now it is all there but at the time it wasn’t.
“Nothing is sacred. I think for her two sons when you keep getting things re-surfacing it’s very difficult.
“It just re-surfaces and re-surfaces and for the family it is not nice. You just have to do the best you can.
“Every young girl or young man who is murdered their families take it with them. But you deal with it.
“I’m glad that my sister and her husband died this year because they will not be affected.”
Robertson has also been charged with the kidnap and rape of a 16-year-old girl in Farnham Lane, Slough, on 16 July, 1981.
He was unable to appear at High Wycombe Magistrates court via video link from custody, as he was in isolation due to a Covid-19 outbreak in the prison where he was being held before the hearing.
Robertson, formerly of Slough, Berks., was remanded in custody and will appear at Reading Crown Court on November 29.
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