Thread: The murders so brutal they shocked even South Africa: Couple shot dead, then son aged 12 is drowned

The murders so brutal they shocked even South Africa: Couple shot dead, then son aged 12 is drowned in scalding bath


Sobbing child was tied up and gagged before being murdered in bath 'because he could identify them'

The three men assaulted the father with a golf club and blade before shooting both adults

Family dog had stomach cut open

Trio worked for the family and said killings were revenge for being badly treated




Violent death: Amaro Viana was brutally killed in a bath of boiling hot water because he have identified his parents' murderers

Even in a country that sees 44 murders a day, the case has left the public horrified.

A gang of robbers gunned down a father, raped and murdered his wife.

Then, in a final act of sickening brutality, they drowned the couple’s 12-year-old son in scalding bath water.

Amaro Viana was murdered to prevent him from identifying the three housebreakers who carried out the raid in suburban South Africa.

The gang included the family’s gardener and the son of a domestic servant.

It was claimed they were motivated by the way they had been treated by the Viana family.

Appearing in court yesterday, the gardener Patrick Radebe, 24, confessed to being part of the gang which broke into their home in October last year.

Vereeniging Regional Court heard that, after gaining access to the house in Walkerville, a suburb of Johannesburg, the gang lay in wait for Amaro’s engineer father Tony, 53, to arrive home.

When he walked through the front door, they attacked him with golf clubs and a machete-like knife known as a panga before tying him up and ordering him to tell them how to open the family safe.

Twisted:

From left, Sipho Mbele, David Motaung and Patrick Petrus Radebe smiled in court as they admitted to their sick crimes



Torn apart: Amaro with his mother Geraldine and father Tony, who were shot to death by the robbers, along with Gabriela Correia, Mr Viana's daughter by his first marriage

Read more: Walkerville family murders: Horrific death of boy, 12, drowned in boiling water after robbers raped his mother | Mail Online

These are Subhumans in every sense of the word! I wouldn't call them 'animals', because there's no animal on Earth that could commit this sort of act.

When I try to imagine what these people, and especially this child, must have went through it leaves me literally gasping for breath and feeling sick.

These criminals and those like them should be pulled out of prison and exterminated like insects!