Soutie, yes, the ordeal continues! For the public, I mean. I have the impression the defence team are scraping the barrel now, having been short of arguments from day-one.
Môre Jay, the show must go on.
Reports yesterday indicated that the defence are calling 10/12 witnesses, they estimated another 2 weeks of it.
I’m not sure why but everybody seems to have been shy about revealing that Oscar’s live-in servant was at home when the incident occurred. Predictably, he (like another servant in a neighbour’s house) claimed to have heard nothing and will not be called as a witness for either side. Why not, i wonder? Surely not because he would be unemployable afterwards? Or because the residents are shy about their ‘help’?
First I’ve heard of it!
I’m certainly not ‘shy’ about it, in fact I can hear Nomte washing the dishes as I speak 😉
Meanwhile the defence is playing the mental health card, while not wishing to claim Pistorius is akshully ill. So did he shoot accidentally, in self-defence or because the balance of his mind (etc)? Is Roux hoping the Judge will choose a card and let his client win?
Looks like he’s going to be sent for a month’s psychiatric observation.
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Soutie, yes, the ordeal continues! For the public, I mean. I have the impression the defence team are scraping the barrel now, having been short of arguments from day-one.
Môre Jay, the show must go on.
Reports yesterday indicated that the defence are calling 10/12 witnesses, they estimated another 2 weeks of it.
I’m not sure why but everybody seems to have been shy about revealing that Oscar’s live-in servant was at home when the incident occurred. Predictably, he (like another servant in a neighbour’s house) claimed to have heard nothing and will not be called as a witness for either side. Why not, i wonder? Surely not because he would be unemployable afterwards? Or because the residents are shy about their ‘help’?
First I’ve heard of it!
I’m certainly not ‘shy’ about it, in fact I can hear Nomte washing the dishes as I speak 😉
I think I’ll go and ask her for another cuppa 🙂
🙂
And now the plot thickens: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-accused-of-intimidating-reeva-steenkamps-friend-in-court-9326974.html
Meanwhile the defence is playing the mental health card, while not wishing to claim Pistorius is akshully ill. So did he shoot accidentally, in self-defence or because the balance of his mind (etc)? Is Roux hoping the Judge will choose a card and let his client win?
Looks like he’s going to be sent for a month’s psychiatric observation.