Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick

Author:Chris Marnewick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Shepherds & Butchers
ISBN: 9781415203279
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2011-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

V3747 Stanley Allen Hansen

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Hansen faced two charges of attempted murder and two of murder. On 13 December 1986 he had tried to kill Dennis Marthinus and Geraldine Sauls by stabbing them with a knife. On 15 December he managed to kill Geraldine Sauls by stabbing her to death. After his arrest and appearance in court he stabbed Emily Patel to death in the back of the police van taking him to the cells, on 19 December 1986.

Hansen pleaded guilty to all four charges and was quickly convicted. The full picture emerged when evidence was being led on the presence or absence of extenuating circumstances.

In mid-1985 Hansen was released from prison after serving a sentence for theft from a motor vehicle. He moved to Bredasdorp where he met Miss Geraldine Sauls. Her boyfriend was Mr Dennis Marthinus, who was in prison at the time. Hansen and Miss Sauls struck up a relationship after she told him about Marthinus, saying that the affair was over. Hansen warned her that if he ever caught her and Marthinus together he would kill both of them. Hansen moved in with Miss Sauls and her parents and by all accounts their relationship was a fairly steady one until the end of November 1986, shortly after Hansen was convicted of possession of cannabis and given a suspended sentence. Sauls’ parents asked Hansen to leave their house just as word arrived that Marthinus had been released from prison and was back in town. Miss Sauls left with Hansen and they moved to another house down the street.

Hansen started hearing rumours that Sauls was seeing Marthinus again. He threatened Marthinus and argued with Sauls about this. On 13 December he sent Sauls to the grocery store, but she did not arrive back home at the time he expected. He took a knife, went in search of her and found her with Marthinus at the side of the road. He tried to stab Marthinus in the heart, but Marthinus turned at the last moment and received a wound in the back and ran off. Hansen could not catch him. Then he turned on Sauls and stabbed her once in the chest and once near the collarbone. After this his senses seem to have returned to him, because he carried Sauls to a doctor’s rooms for treatment.

The police arrived at the doctor’s with Marthinus. The police sergeant inexplicably told Hansen to close his knife and go home, ordering him to report to the police the next morning. The police took Sauls to the hospital, but her injuries were not serious enough to warrant her admission and she was sent home. She returned to her parents’ home.

The next day, Sunday, Hansen went looking for her and, when he saw her at her parents’ home, shouted that he was going to kill her. Then he went looking for Marthinus, but could not find him as the police were keeping Marthinus in protective custody. Hansen later told the Court that he had made the

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