[6] Over the following weeks, the girls continued to argue online until Hau made remarks on Facebook on supposed promiscuous behaviour by her opponent.
This resulted in Polly W. asking her friend, the 17-year-old Wesley C. from Rotterdam, to deal with the situation, who then contracted Jinhua K. from Capelle aan den IJssel to "punish" Hau.
The public prosecutor asked to have the two tried as adults due to the severity of the case, and demanded five years in prison and judicial involuntary commitment, but the court ruled against this.
Hau's father expressed his lack of surprise at Jinhua K's reoffending, stating that "he is severely disturbed; that was evident from (Winsie's) murder".
[12] In 2017, the Facebook murder was adapted by Dutch public broadcaster BNNVARA for the episode Unlike of the crime drama television series Van God Los.