Swedish students chased Stanford rapist away after he 'aggressively thrusted hips' into victim

Two Swedish university students who witnessed Brock Turner raping an unconscious woman behind a dumpster on the school campus have told of the disturbing moment they caught him in the act.

Carl-Fredrik Arndt and Peter Jonsson were cycling to a party at Stanford University in January 2015 when they saw a suspicious figure moving behind a rubbish bin.

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The men, who broke their silence to Swedish media outlet Expressen on Tuesday, said they immediately knew something was wrong.

“We saw that she was not moving, while he was moving a lot,” Mr Arndt said.

“So we stopped and thought, ‘this is very strange’.”

The PhD students decided to confront the Turner.

“When he got up we saw that she still wasn’t moving at all, so we walked up and asked something like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’”

When Turner tried to flee, Mr Jonsson chased him over a distance of 30 metres before tacking him to the ground.

Mr Arndt stayed with the victim, who has remained unidentified, to make sure she was alive.

“She lay perfectly still,” he said.

The men restrained Turner until police arrived, later telling them they saw him “aggressively thrusting his hips into her”.

“She was unconscious. The entire time. I checked on her and she didn’t move at all,” Mr Arndt told CBS News.

Turner faced court last week and was sentenced to serve six months jail time and three years’ probation - a penalty that sparked worldwide outrage for being too lenient.

It has been revealed Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky was also a Stanford graduate who captained the lacrosse team.

More than 371,000 people have signed a petition calling for him to be fired.

The victim, who was not a student at Stanford, read a heartfelt 7000-word victim impact statement in court directly addressing her attacker.

She described waking up in hospital to the news of the attack with no recollection of the events of the night before.

She found out via media websites and news broadcasts that her genitals had been left exposed by Turner, and had pine needled in her hair and inside her vagina.

After the hospital finished conducting their tests, they allowed her to shower.

"I stood there examining my body beneath the stream of water and decided, I don't want my body anymore. I was terrified of it,"she wrote.

"I wanted to take off my body like a jacket and leave it at the hospital with everything else."

The moving transcript has since gone viral.

Jonsson shared the statement on his Facebook page on Tuesday, asking his friends and followers to read the letter.

“To me it is unique in its form and comes as close as you can possibly get to putting words on an experience that words cannot describe,” he wrote.

Turner’s father, Dan Turner, also read a statement in court, where he defended his son, saying the six-month penalty was “a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action”.

He said his son's life has been "deeply altered" by the events of last January and he will never be the same again.

"He will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile. His every waking minute is consumed with worry, anxiety, fear and depression.

"Probation is the best answer for Brock in this situation."

Mr Turner's statement has been widely criticised by the public.

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