Oscar Pistorius shoots girlfriend

[HTP99]

80sMatchbox said:

Oscar's back on Twitter....though I doubt he'll be reading the replies..

First reply on his tweet today? "MURDERER'. I bet he loves social media.

Back on Twitter; just shows the arrogance of the man, any normal person, given the circumstances and what is going on, would want to keep a low profile until either convicted or cleared.

[McWigglebum4th]

Has anyone done the he hasn't got a leg to stand on joke yet?

[pcvdriver]

McWigglebum4th said:

Has anyone done the he hasn't got a leg to stand on joke yet?

What? Legally, or otherwise? We'll soon know when the judge asks him to stand before her.....

[zygalski]

Cobnapint said:

As painfully difficult to understand as the prosecution's.

I watched a couple of days of this trial & I thought the mighty Gerrie Nel was poor.
How many times did he say "Ok Mr Pistorius, we'll come back to that later" only to not do so, at least during the same day.
Totally scattergun & disjointed is how I would sum up the prosecution's case. I started to have doubts about OP's guilt re murder.
Guilty of culpable homicide will be the result.

[Cobnapint]

zygalski said:

Cobnapint said:

As painfully difficult to understand as the prosecution's.

I watched a couple of days of this trial & I thought the mighty Gerrie Nel was poor.
How many times did he say "Ok Mr Pistorius, we'll come back to that later" only to not do so, at least during the same day.
Totally scattergun & disjointed is how I would sum up the prosecution's case. I started to have doubts about OP's guilt re murder.
Guilty of culpable homicide will be the result.

Quite agree. In the early stages he was jabbering on, cutting short his sentences, and making no sense whatsoever.

The defence lawyer wasn't much better.

[Steffan]

zygalski said:

Cobnapint said:

As painfully difficult to understand as the prosecution's.

I watched a couple of days of this trial & I thought the mighty Gerrie Nel was poor.
How many times did he say "Ok Mr Pistorius, we'll come back to that later" only to not do so, at least during the same day.
Totally scattergun & disjointed is how I would sum up the prosecution's case. I started to have doubts about OP's guilt re murder.
Guilty of culpable homicide will be the result.

If the result attributes the responsibility to Pistorius and ensure a very lengthy prison term then I would regard that as fairly reasonable. IMO he s guilty of murder but so long as he is ruined by the process and serves a considerable period in jail then I think that some justice will have been exacted. He treated that women as absolute trash and literally spread her across the walls of that room. Evil bd with full intent IMO. Any other verdict would be a travesty.

[greygoose]

FourWheelDrift said:

Rocksteadyeddie said:

And we're done...

M'lady returns September 11th with her verdict.

Is she going on holiday for a few weeks?

Ridiculous delay in returning a verdict in an already lengthy trial, surely she can consider everything in a week at most?

[Mermaid]

Steffan said:

If the result attributes the responsibility to Pistorius and ensure a very lengthy prison term then I would regard that as fairly reasonable. IMO he is guilty of murder but so long as he is ruined by the process and serves a considerable period in jail then I think that some justice will have been exacted. He treated that women as absolute trash and literally spread her across the walls of that room. Evil bd with full intent IMO. Any other verdict would be a travesty.

Justice, fame, money, South Africa, Colour, media circus, tourism - quite a cocktail. Anything is possible.

Edited by Mermaid on Saturday 9th August 11:52

[zygalski]

Steffan said:

zygalski said:

Cobnapint said:

As painfully difficult to understand as the prosecution's.

I watched a couple of days of this trial & I thought the mighty Gerrie Nel was poor.
How many times did he say "Ok Mr Pistorius, we'll come back to that later" only to not do so, at least during the same day.
Totally scattergun & disjointed is how I would sum up the prosecution's case. I started to have doubts about OP's guilt re murder.
Guilty of culpable homicide will be the result.

If the result attributes the responsibility to Pistorius and ensure a very lengthy prison term then I would regard that as fairly reasonable. IMO he s guilty of murder but so long as he is ruined by the process and serves a considerable period in jail then I think that some justice will have been exacted. He treated that women as absolute trash and literally spread her across the walls of that room. Evil bd with full intent IMO. Any other verdict would be a travesty.

"Roses are read, violets are blue, I think today is a good day to tell you that I love you".
That was written days before she was shot. The CCTV store footage from days earlier show what appears a happy, loving & relaxed couple.
By anyone's standards, to suggest Reeva lived in constant fear for her life is just plain dumb.

[Steffan]

zygalski said:

Steffan said:

zygalski said:

Cobnapint said:

As painfully difficult to understand as the prosecution's.

I watched a couple of days of this trial & I thought the mighty Gerrie Nel was poor.
How many times did he say "Ok Mr Pistorius, we'll come back to that later" only to not do so, at least during the same day.
Totally scattergun & disjointed is how I would sum up the prosecution's case. I started to have doubts about OP's guilt re murder.
Guilty of culpable homicide will be the result.

If the result attributes the responsibility to Pistorius and ensure a very lengthy prison term then I would regard that as fairly reasonable. IMO he s guilty of murder but so long as he is ruined by the process and serves a considerable period in jail then I think that some justice will have been exacted. He treated that women as absolute trash and literally spread her across the walls of that room. Evil bd with full intent IMO. Any other verdict would be a travesty.

"Roses are read, violets are blue, I think today is a good day to tell you that I love you".
That was written days before she was shot. The CCTV store footage from days earlier show what appears a happy, loving & relaxed couple.
By anyone's standards, to suggest Reeva lived in constant fear for her life is just plain dumb.

In you opinion. Whatever the circumstances of her life with Pistorius prior to being murdered, murdered she was by OP. Anything less than a long street in prison would suggest corruption to me. Time will tell.

[El Guapo]

My opinion has not changed from day 1. Even if it had been an unknown intruder in the bathroom Pistorius would be guilty of murder. Send him down.

[bigunit00]

My bet - culpable homicide / 15-20 years. I don't see how they have proved it was premeditated. He is a psycho and went off on one. She was the collateral damage. Wrong place wrong time.

[TEKNOPUG]

bigunit00 said:

My bet - culpable homicide / 15-20 years. I don't see how they have proved it was premeditated. He is a psycho and went off on one. She was the collateral damage. Wrong place wrong time.

He walked to his bed, picked up his gun, walked to the bathroom and fired 4 shots through the door. I think that he had plenty of time to think about what he was doing.

No matter though, 15 years in a SA prison is a life sentence.

[pincher]

BREAKING NEWS: Oscar Pistorius has sacked his legal team and hired Celtic's as he has heard you can lose both legs and still win.






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[MrMagoo]

Both lawyers didn't impress me. I was expecting a couple of Harvey Specters to fight it out, yet all I heared from both sides were a lot of ummms and drawn out sentences that didint seem to make a point. Are they really two of the best lawyers around or has my expectations been skewed by watching too much suits?

[burwoodman]

anonymous said:

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Overall I thought he was very good and more impressive than bully boy roux

[TheSnitch]

anonymous said:

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I agree. Personally, regardless of his performance in court I think the preparation of the defence was puzzlingly inept. Some of their witnesses were laughably incompetent. What on earth possessed Roux to use Dixon, for example? The man was as effective as a catflap in a giraffe house. I have seriously wondered if the idea was to give OP grounds for an appeal on the basis of having a fking useless brief.

[anonymous-user]

I hadn't seen any of the footage of the trial until now... Just watching the prosecution's final summary on Sky News now.

From everything I've read on here, I expected this Nel chap to be some kind of powerhouse... He seems like a bumbling buffoon in this coverage - barely strung a coherant sentence together in the half hour or so I've been watching.

Lord knows how bad the defence must have been for this prosecutor to be regarded so highly in this thread.

[Mermaid]

Nyphur said:

I hadn't seen any of the footage of the trial until now... Just watching the prosecution's final summary on Sky News now.

From everything I've read on here, I expected this Nel chap to be some kind of powerhouse... He seems like a bumbling buffoon in this coverage - barely strung a coherant sentence together in the half hour or so I've been watching.

Lord knows how bad the defence must have been for this prosecutor to be regarded so highly in this thread.

Has he been Bernie'd?

[Rocksteadyeddie]

greygoose said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Rocksteadyeddie said:

And we're done...

M'lady returns September 11th with her verdict.

Is she going on holiday for a few weeks?

Ridiculous delay in returning a verdict in an already lengthy trial, surely she can consider everything in a week at most?

I believe she is already on an other case due to the OP case running over by so much. Originally acheduled for 3 weeks IIRC