News Pistorius goes Psycho

[Gumbo]

Apparently he wanted to buy a new bathroom door, but his girlfriend was dead against it.

 

[Job]

Best one so far

 

[sayward]

Over two hours for the magistrate to get to the point

If it was gruelling for us to listen to it must have been diabolical for them.

 

[Gumbo]

What's got 2 legs and kills women?

Spoiler

The Pistorious brothers

 

[Madmaxx]

I don't get how he can be so "shaken and traumatised" to not take questions or do an interview, but he's ok with travelling abroad and taking part in a World Championship with thousands watching and taking loads of flash photography pictures and a media circus etc.

It just reminds me of the Lance Armstrong case, just tell the truth ffs !

 

[caLLous]

I seem to remember the "not travelling" bit was quite a large factor in his being granted bail in the first place.

 

[Madmaxx]

I seem to remember the "not travelling" bit was quite a large factor in his being granted bail in the first place.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/disability-sport/21967852

The 26-year-old athlete, who has run at both the Olympics and Paralympics, is charged with murdering his girlfriend but will be allowed to travel abroad after challenging his bail terms.

EDIT: He got quite a few of the original rulings over-turned.

 

[Job]

He's so going down
1. The deceased decided to relieve herself and did so without saying a word to the accused.

2. For no apparent reason she opened the bathroom window.

3. She took her cellphone with her to the bathroom.

4. She decided not to switch on any of the lights.

5. She did not utter a word whilst the accused was screaming, not even when he was in the bathroom.

6. The deceased got up from the toilet to close and lock the door.

7. The deceased dressed herself before she was shot.

8. The deceased did not hide as a result of all the screaming but stood upright facing the danger.

"It just gets ridiculous, with the utmost respect," Mr Nel told the court.

 

[russell]

I do 1-4 all the time?

 

[Job]

Yes so do I, but not anymore now I'm sleeping with a paralympian

 

[ECA]

So she was over his house, he wakes up in the night. She isn't there and he hears rustling in the bathroom. Jee, maybe your girlfriend went for a piss? Better get a gun and shoot through the door JUST TO MAKE SURE.

Yeah, it definitely wasn't a domestic that turned into her hiding in the bathroom for him and then he gets even more enraged and shoots through the door

 

[Job]

Ive heard he's been seeing a new girl...I can just imagine them at home...'I'm going to pick up the remote real slow Oscar..no surprises..it just turns the channels'

 

[Gwadien]

The Prosecutors prosecution was described as a 'show stealing performance' I forgot this was a Jeremy Kyle show, and someone is dead and someone could be in prison for a very very long time. -.-

 

[caLLous]

Oscar Pistorious has sacked his legal team. He has now hired Celtic as he heard they lost both legs and still managed to win.

 

[fettoken]

Does he actually have a "legal team", sounds kind of overselling it a bit. Or?

 

[caLLous]

What's he going to do otherwise? Turn up with a no-win-no-fee lawyer whose number he got off a bus shelter? Of course he has a team and it will be costing him tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of rand an hour.

 

[fettoken]

I'm not sure how the system works there, but it doesn't seem really sympathetic having a whole team defending you. I mean the Jury and all taking that into consideration.

 

[ECA]

Verdict on sept 11th. I'm sure that'll be a blast.

 

[caLLous]

Well they don't use the jury system in SA so all he thinks about is hiring the most thorough, conniving legal experts he can get his hands on and his wealth kind of lends itself to that.

 

[caLLous]

Not sure why the facepalm dys? I know you're from that part of the world, I wasn't having a go at SA. I think the Jury of the World (TM) has already decided that he is guilty as sin so it's going to be an uphill struggle to get him off by arguing his case so his lawyers will try to get him off by finding little holes in the prosecution's evidence/witnesses/etc or with technicalities. I know that's basically what happens in every court case ever but when there's this many submissions and this much evidence you surely need a massive team with handfuls of paralegals etc poring over everything (yeah I've read Grisham bitches). They aren't going to convince the judge that he didn't do it just by telling her a story.

 

[Ormorof]

He has apparently sacked his legal team and contacted Celtic, because if they can lose both legs and still win so can he!

 

[caLLous]

Did not see him getting off both murder charges tbh.

 

[old.user4556]

Wtflolomgffs?

 

[caLLous]

Not quite sure what you're trying to communicate there, chief.

 

[ECA]

He's off the hook for premeditated murder/murder, but not culpable homicide ( the equivalent of manslaughter ), for which he seems eminently guilty of.

That verdict has been delayed and won't be announced until iirc friday?

 

[old.user4556]

Not quite sure what you're trying to communicate there, chief.

I just don't believe he got away with murder (literally).

 

[Raven]

He will have a spring in his step now for sure.

 

[Gwadien]

I just don't believe he got away with murder (literally).

I'm sort-of glad about it, shows the judge isn't necessarily make an example of him because he's a celebrity.

 

[caLLous]

I'm sort-of glad about it, shows the judge isn't necessarily make an example of him because he's a celebrity.

But he is obviously guilty (I mean come on) so now it looks like she is favouring him because he's a celebrity. Fair enough not guilty on the premeditated murder charge but how many shots did he fire through the door, all the while not trying to kill anybody?!

 

[Gwadien]

But he is obviously guilty (I mean come on) so now it looks like she is favouring him because he's a celebrity. Fair enough not guilty on the premeditated murder charge but how many shots did he fire through the door, all the while not trying to kill anybody?!

But the full verdict isn't out yet, isn't 'Murder' like you know who you're killing sort of thing, where as he thought someone was in his house, so he shot at them?

I'm no lawyer.

I'm not sure of South Africa's laws, but if this was America, I could see him getting away with it, because it was in his mindset (atleast he says) that someone broke into his home.