A massive 82lb rock used to smash the skull of a university student after she was kidnapped and brutally gang-raped has been presented in court.

The two-foot by one-foot by one-foot boulder had been used to cover a borehole and was slammed down on Hannah Cornelius's head twice as she was held down, a court was told.

The fatal blow was delivered after at least three men had taken turns to rape the gifted scholar.

Hannah, 21, would almost certainly have died instantly according to experts. However, to make sure, one of her killers also plunged a knife into her neck.

Vernon Witbooi, 33, Geraldo Parsons, 27, Nashville Julius, 29, and Eben Van Nieberk, 28, face charges including murder, kidnap, robbery and rape.

The chilling exhibit was lifted with a struggle onto a desk before the judge at the Western High Court in Cape Town, South Africa, by two strong security guards.





https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6293729/Two-foot-82lb-rock-used-smash-South-African-student-death-gang-raped.html

Hannah Cornelius, 21, was raped and murdered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, after she and her friend were carjacked by four men.


Ms Cornelius was dragged from her car and raped by at least three of the men, before they stabbed her in the neck and crushed her skull with a large rock.





Vernon Witbooi, 33, Geraldo Parsons, 27, Eben Van Nieberk, 28, and Nashville Julius, 29, face a string of charges including murder, kidnap, robbery and rape.

Accused (left-right) Vernon Witbooi, Geraldo Parsons, Nashville Julius, and Eben Van Nieberk, in court yesterday

It was said that magistrate's daughter, Hannah and a friend Cheslin Marsh, 22, were kidnapped after she gave him a lift home.


She had parked her blue VW Golf a gift from her grandmother outside his flat but as they parked a gang of four men attacked them opening both doors.


They put a screwdriver to her chest and put a knife to the back of fellow student Mr Marsh and threatened to kill him.


The court heard one of the gang shouted at him: 'Sit still or she dies'.(Recordings)


Mr Marsh was robbed of cash and his phone and locked in the car boot and then the gang drove to a drug dealers home to buy drugs and smoked crystal meth.


Hannah was wedged between two of the four men in the back seat of the VW and the gang drove out of the upmarket wine producing town of Stellenbosch.


They pulled over and took Mr Marsh into the bushes and made him lay his head on a rock on the ground and then battered his skull with house bricks.


That afternoon Marsh recovered consciousness and staggered to a nearby home suffering severe head injuries and a broken arm to raise the alarm about Hannah.

Unknown to him her body had been found earlier several miles away dumped by the road and a huge police search was already underway for him and the gang.

She had been dragged into bushes at a vineyard and gang raped by at least three of the men in what was described in court as an 'extremely painful' ordeal.

Hannah suffered severe vaginal and cervical injuries in the prolonged attack.

When it was over it is alleged that the gang then found the large boulder covering a water borehole nearby and manhandled it across to where she was laying.




Forensic pathologist Dr Deidre Abraham who carried out the autopsy on Hannah confirmed that her murderers dealt the fatal blows by dropping the rock twice.

She said: 'The skull is made up of very strong bones indeed. It is not easy for a skull to break or crack unless a lot of power is used to actually break the skull.

'The blunt force injuries to her head were very rapidly fatal' she said.

Two workers Conrad Booysen and Flippie Matthee told the court they were repairing a borehole pump at Groenhoek Farm near Stellenbosch the day before.

After they removed the pump from the bottom of the well Mr Booysen said they placed the rock over the hole to stop people or animals falling in after dark.













A still from CCTV footage of Ms Cornelius and Mr Marsh who were chatting in a blue Volkswagen Citi Golf (pictured right during the subsequent police chase of the killers) when they were approached by four men.



Three men made Mr Marsh (pictured after the attack) put his head on a rock then battered his skull with house bricks until they thought he was dead.

D

Na wa,

Some people joke with God these days. Its a pity, they forget What happened to king Herod on his death day

This guys no get joy one bit

See them even smiling. ****

Might as well smash their evil faces with that rock.


What a horrible way to die. Father Lord!

I don't even imagine how people get erection during struggling to tape. I mean how on heart do they get erection? Instead of south Africa to deal with internal problem facing them, it is foreigners that they will be going after to attack. Smh.

Really terrible ..glad to hear they HV been apprehended

This is too much


These guys deserve the highest penalty available except life, fucking bastards

Man's inhumanity to man!
Just look at those scums smiling sef. Smh
I feel like smashing their heads too.

what a painful way to die....rip girl

How wicked and heartless can one get?

This is chilling and heartbreaking.

You rape someone, the pain she was passing through wasn't enough for your wicked souls, you still smashed her with a rock and then stabbed her just to be sure she died??

This is appalling!

They deserve capital punishment. Disgusting souls.

SPDAZZY:
How wicked and heartless can one get?

This is chilling and heartbreaking.

You rape someone, the pain she was passing through wasn't enough for your wicked souls, you still smashed her with a rock and then stabbed her just to be sure she died??

This is appalling!

So shocking, the deserve death by hanging or electrocution.

They deserve a very slow, painful death. How can people be this heartless?

This is bad

Jeeez!!!

Explorers my blood turned cold while reading this story, then became boiling hot. God have mercy but I've tried imagining terrible ways for these men to be executed if convicted.

Hang them upside down by the balls with a meat hook! Or tie them naked in a hot, parched desert till they die of dehydration! What bloody nonsense!

South Africa's rape issue has seriously gotten out of hand walahi.Very soon they'll be declared a dangerous country to visit by the international community

ogbiwa:
Jeeez!!!

Explorers my blood turned cold while reading this story, then became boiling hot. God have mercy but I've tried imagining terrible ways for these men to be executed if convicted.

Hang them upside down by the balls with a meat hook! Or tie them naked in a hot, parched desert till they die of dehydration! What bloody nonsense!

South Africa's rape issue has seriously gotten out of hand walahi.Very soon they'll be declared a dangerous country to visit by the international community

As in, what we're doing to hurt ourselves in this world these days will shock the devil.

Lalasticlala

Reading this is so painful...this is not good at all.

The daily crimes going on in that sa is chilling...

Witnessed one myself... Just run for your life when you see a blue golf gti following you or Mercedes c300...thier cat of choice for robbery, car jacking and a whole lot of rubbish.

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ogbiwa:
Jeeez!!!

Explorers my blood turned cold while reading this story, then became boiling hot. God have mercy but I've tried imagining terrible ways for these men to be executed if convicted.

Hang them upside down by the balls with a meat hook! Or tie them naked in a hot, parched desert till they die of dehydration! What bloody nonsense!

South Africa's rape issue has seriously gotten out of hand walahi.Very soon they'll be declared a dangerous country to visit by the international community

You don't sound any different from the rapists.