Woman gang-raped, boyfriend shot execution style

A young woman enduring a horrific six-hour ordeal had to watch her boyfriend Steve Petersen being murdered execution-style before being gang-raped and dumped in the vicinity of Macassar.

After two men had repeatedly raped her and then left her tied up in an open field near Macassar in the Helderberg area of Cape Town, the 23-year-old woman freed herself and went for help to the nearest house, from where the police were contacted.

Mfuleni police station spokesperson Anneke van der Vyver said the men approached the woman and her friend in his dark blue Toyota Corolla early on Sunday while they were parked near Blue Downs magistrate's court.

They demanded he hand over his vehicle and when he refused a scuffle broke out. The car owner, also 23, was shot once in the chest, Van der Vyver said. He died at the scene.

She said the hijackers then drove away in the car with his woman friend inside and went to Macassar, where they parked in an open field, raped her, tied her up and and left her.

She managed to untie herself at about 6am and ran to a nearby house, where the occupants called the police. She was taken for medical attention and trauma counselling, but was not taken to hospital.

Van der Vyver said the woman was still too shocked to assist the police in compiling identikits of her assailants, but said one was in his 40s and the other in his 20s.