Robert Clive Napper was born on 25 February 1966 and is an English serial killer and rapist.
19 Facts About Robert Napper
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Robert Napper was sentenced to indefinite detention at Broadmoor Hospital on 18 December 2008 for the manslaughter of Rachel Nickell on 15 July 1992.
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Robert Napper was previously convicted of the 1993 double murder of Samantha Bisset and her daughter Jazmine Bisset.
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Robert Napper is the eldest child of Brian Napper, a driving instructor, and his wife Pauline.
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The marriage of his parents was violent and Robert Napper witnessed his father abusing his mother.
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Robert Napper's parents divorced when he was nine and he and his siblings were placed in foster care and underwent psychiatric treatment for six years at the Maudsley Hospital in Camberwell.
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Robert Napper was socially awkward at school, where he was shunned by his peers who later described Robert Napper as being "despised".
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The offender was jailed, but Robert Napper became introverted, obsessively tidy, and reclusive, according to his mother.
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Robert Napper bullied his siblings and spied on his sister while she was naked.
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In 1986, Robert Napper first came to police attention after being convicted of an offence with an airgun.
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At this point, Pauline Robert Napper broke off all contact with her son.
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On 15 July 1992 on Wimbledon Common, Robert Napper stabbed the young mother Rachel Nickell 49 times in front of her son Alex, then aged two, who clung on to his mother's body begging her to wake up.
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Robert Napper was questioned about unsolved attacks on other women during the year, but was eliminated from inquiries.
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Robert Napper was convicted at the Old Bailey in October 1995.
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Robert Napper is believed to have committed most or all of the attacks attributed to the "Green Chain Rapist" who carried out at least 70 savage attacks across south-east London over a four-year period ending in 1994.
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Robert Napper is known to have kept detailed records of the sites of potential and actual attacks on women.
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However, there are conflicting witness reports of the rapist's height and Robert Napper walked with a stoop.
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On 18 December 2008, Robert Napper was convicted of the manslaughter of Nickell on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
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Robert Napper was portrayed by Jack Riddiford in the 2021 miniseries Deceit, which retold the story of Operation Edzell.