Jill Meagher dragged into laneway before rape, prosecutor tells court The committal hearing for Adrian Ernest Bayley has heard details of Jill Meagher's alleged rape and murder. THE man accused of murdering Jill Meagher dragged the young ABC staffer into a laneway before raping her three times, a court has heard. Details of Jill Meagher's alleged rape and murder have been revealed in the Melbourne Magistrates Court where Adrian Ernest Bayley, 41, today began his committal hearing. Opening the hearing, chief crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert SC said Meagher had left the Brunswick bar where she had been drinking with colleagues at 1.30am on Saturday 22 September last year. "At 1.38am the accused accosted the deceased," Mr Silbert said. He has then proceeded to drag her into a laneway...where he has raped her and strangled her. It is alleged Mr Bayley raped Meagher three times. Mr Silbert said Mr Bayley then left Meagher's body in the laneway, and went to his Coburg home to fetch a shovel. At 4.22am he arrived back at the laneway, Mr Silbert said, and put the body in the boot of his car. At 4.26am he drove to Gisborne South where he buried the body on the side of the road. Mr Silbert said Mr Bayley had been interviewed by police for ten hours, during which he made admissions to raping and strangling Jill Meagher, and directed detectives to the location of her body. Zixue Qiu, who lived near the laneway, told the court she had heard a woman say "Get out of there" in a loud, slurring voice around 1.45am on the morning Meagher went missing. Ms Qiu said she had heard the woman say this several times, but could not see anyone in the laneway when she went to the window. No screaming or yelling was heard. Ms Qiu's husband told the court he had also heard the woman's voice and had previously warned his wife not to walk in the laneway. Meagher's husband Tom, parents George and Edith McKeon, and brother Michael watched from their seats in the courtroom as Mr Bayley entered the dock.