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22nd October 2014 #121
If you were found guilty of aiding and abetting Les you would get 'life'
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22nd October 2014 #122
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22nd October 2014 #123
For killing my Daughter worth every year poor Oscar my ....
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22nd October 2014 #124
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22nd October 2014 #125
I have never believed his story tho. It's ridiculous.
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22nd October 2014 #126
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22nd October 2014 #127
Still not buying it. He got away with it. A complete idiot with guns. If I knock someone down by bad driving I would go to jail for longer. If I had been caught say, driving on the pavement twice before like an idiot, it would count towards my punishment.
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22nd October 2014 #128
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In cross examination he was asked about his firearms training. He said that it would only be in the very last resort that he would be permitted to fire.
That is more or less the same as in UK. That is when he was directly threatened with a lethal weapon and could not do anything but use his weapon, it would be justified.
Thus when he fired at the door knowing that someone was on the other side, but not being threatened at all, he was admitting in effect murder.
That he got acquitted of course does not mean he was ‘not guilty’. He got off.
If they have the balls to appeal he could easily be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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22nd October 2014 #129
Totally agree John.
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22nd October 2014 #130
He's a nasty piece of work anyway!
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22nd October 2014 #131
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23rd October 2014 #132
Maybe he thought Warwick Davis had broken in, and he was shooting 4 warning shots above his head
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23rd October 2014 #133
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23rd October 2014 #134
Of course.. Accident was the wrong word.. "Tragic Mistake" would have been a better choice of words..
I happen to believe that he didn't have the faintest clue she was in there.. He thought she was asleep in a pitch dark bedroom,which was where she was when he left her for a short period..
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23rd October 2014 #135
But it wasn't pitch black though. Oscar made it clear that there was a blue LED lit on the stereo. Just one blue LED is enough to light up a room like a Nazi camp looking for escaping Englander's at night. With one blue LED you can clearly see the wrinkles in a face, never mind a whole body. This is because of the way our eyes see blue light, hence alarm clocks are usually red or green. He even admitted that the LED light was bothering him, which is why he tried to cover it up, unsuccessfully.
It was also shown during the trial that the balcony light was on according to witnesses, and even with blackout curtains, light still gets in.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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23rd October 2014 #136
According to witnesses they were arguing up until shots were heard!
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23rd October 2014 #137
He is Snidey that's my considered opinion,I have no doubt when he gets released after a brief period of mourning and adjustment he will be partying like it's 1999 and making shed loads of money from tv appearances and book sales.
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23rd October 2014 #138
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Fred, but he believed someone was behind the door, that was why he fired. So he intended to injure or kill.
Sorry M' Lady, Murder would have been the correct finding.
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23rd October 2014 #139Fred, but he believed someone was behind the door, that was why he fired. So he intended to injure or kill.
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23rd October 2014 #140
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23rd October 2014 #141
An LED light? Are you kidding me? I just turned off the lights in my living room and have two LED`s running.. I cant see a F@king thing!!
Where would your focus be if you think you are being invaded and threatened?? From the the illusions emitted from an LED light or the noise from the door and the perceived threat from within?
Get real!
I love it when people say how they would react in a given situation as if such a situation had happened to them at the spur of the moment!
Hopefully that situation never occurs...But if it does..At the very least expect a surprise that cannot be thought of as logical in the cold light of day!
The surprise quite often comes too late.
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23rd October 2014 #142
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As South African law seems to be the same as UK, in those circumstances you would be guilty of murder.
One can only take life to protect one's own life or that of another person, providing there is no alternative.
So chase the guy down the street who just shot and killed your wife and kill him, murder. Or, as he is about to kill your wife you kill him --- justifiable homicide.
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23rd October 2014 #143
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23rd October 2014 #144Yes thats true..And if I thought there was someone behind a door in my home that was there to do me or my family no good and I had a gun.....!! Guess what?
If he was of presence of mind to get his gun - he had time to ascertain where she was.
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23rd October 2014 #145
There was one time, in the middle of the night, Keith heard a loud bang (with glass breaking) at the hall by the kitchen. Well what he did was woke me up and ask what's that and if I heard something. Turns out it was the mirror by the hall, it fell from the wall.
Like what Les said, the first thing you do is ask whoever you are in bed with if he/she heard something, not get a gun and shoot 4 times on the bathroom door without even knowing if someone really is in there. It's one of the basic scenarios even in movies which involve burglars!
Oh, and blue LED light is quite bright in a dark room. Every night I have to flip over my phone if the small blue LED light flashes for notifications (if family in the Philippines sent messages and such), coz it lits up the bedroom with its continued flashing.-=rayna.keith=-
...When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible...
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23rd October 2014 #146
It is real!
This was in Oscar's own evidence He even stated that he got out of bed as it was annoying him.
Blue LED's are used by astronomers so they can see in the dark, but not change their pupils. They are also used as night lights for babies/kids so the parents can see in the room.Keith Driscoll - Administrator
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23rd October 2014 #147
Also your vision in poor light adapts so he managed to find his gun alright?
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23rd October 2014 #148
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23rd October 2014 #149"When you shouted at Reeva to phone the police, she was 3m away from you in the toilet, but she didn't say anything," he said. "Why would she not say anything?
Mr Pistorius said he did not know.He asked why he had not checked whether Ms Steenkamp had heard his calls for her to phone the police, or why he had not taken her to safety instead of going to confront the supposed intruder.
Mr Pistorius said it was his personality to confront what he believed was an intruder.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26984472
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25th October 2014 #150Reeva Steenkamp 'hadn't slept with Oscar' before he killed her says mum June
She was killed on Valentines day, maybe if what her mother said is true, this was the cause of the alleged argument
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