One of the things that struck me during my recent visit was that,in affluent areas at least (which is where we stayed before and after our "safari") there are fences,barbed wire,signs that say stuff like "Acme Security Armed Response". Violent crime in affluent areas is absolutely incredible...including during daylight hours.
It seems to me that his claim of being in fear of an armed intruder is absolutely plausible.Of course he absolutely could be lying through his teeth.
> It seems to me that his claim of being in fear of an armed intruder is absolutely plausible <
Interesting post yours. I didn’t follow the trial. But I gotta wonder...if it was self-defense, why would he shoot through a closed door, not knowing where his girlfriend was?
Fear of an intruder isn’t plausible re Pistorius, who lived in a locked-gated “estate” complex where armed guards patrolled 24-7. The most damning evidence came from neighbors who testified to hearing a loud argument and the victim’s screams through their open windows. Open windows indicates no fear of intruders imo.
What destroyed his defense about intruders was two neighbors heard her screaming in a bloodcurdling way....their words in describing her screams.....screaming for someone to help her please
She knew he was going to try to kill her
Something along the lines of this ain’t working out and I’m leaving you which means in girl talk “I’ve met someone and likely they have two legs and perhaps a larger penis or more money or both” and he reacts thinking oh shit I can’t let this absolutely goddess woman leave me and do all we do with another man who likely indeed does have two legs unlike me
So I’ll show her
I’ll kill her and then me....I just couldn’t live without her
She runs to bathroom and he fires through door into bathroom....an odd intruder spot.....
Then he lacks stones to off himself as plannned and the rest is a trial
That’s my hunch
It was known that she was thinking of leaving him and had packed her bags according to her parents
Here’s a quick synopsis I copied from a thread in SA on it
No I dont think his story is believable I think the facts all show that his story did not happen:
1) There was internet connections past ten pm, when he said they were sleeping
2) The neighbors heard screaming and an argument
3) She was in full clothes, not clothes that people wear to bed, clearly she had not just woken up from sleep
4) she locked the bathroom door with phones inside, noone does that who just wakes up from sleep and is going to the bathroom
5) there was proof there was food in her stomach two hours before her death, which shows she was not sleeping
6) one neighbor said they saw the light on in the bathroom
7) they also checked her bladder and she had not just used teh bathroom
8) she was standing and obviously was there to protect herself from him, thats why she was in defensive position
9) most ballistic experts say she would have screamed after the first bullet
10) there was blood in the bedroom as well, indicating that more had happened
11) there was some indiaction from here text messages that he had tantrums and she feared him
It was a brief 11-12 week affair and she was done.....probably from his temper....women who don’t have one themselves don’t like tempers so she was bugging out
Real pity gunned down unarmed