The father of a young South African woman who was gang-raped by three men and then stoned to death faced his daughter’s killers in court this week. Speaking to the court, Willem Cornelius said his wife, Anna, 56, was never the same after Hannah Cornelius’ May 2017 rape and murder. The grieving father recalled how, 10 months …
A South African court learned how a college student begged her captors not to kill her after three of them reportedly gang-raped her—and how they allegedly murdered her anyway. Though four men have pleaded not guilty to the May 2017 murder of Hannah Cornelius, 21, Geraldo Parsons, 27, made an unexpected confession on the witness stand. A …
On November 3, a South African court will hear the State’s application to appeal Oscar Pistorius’ six-year jail sentence for murder. The Pretoria East Rekord reports that the appeal will be heard in the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in Bloemfontein. Pistorius, 30, was originally convicted of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years behind bars for …
Police in South Africa arrested a man after he was reportedly found eating a woman he allegedly kidnapped and murdered, as reported by Herald Live. According to News24, the unidentified 23-year-old man allegedly abducted the woman in Mount Frere on Saturday and took her to his home in Eastern Cape. Provincial police spokesperson Captain Edith Mjoko revealed that …
