08-12-2015 9:35 AM
Apprently he was smiling & laugthing. So must the lawyers be.
I would have thought that it should be an immediate return to prison, and no priviledes, for anyone convicted of murder?
I am just so baffled why there has been so many light - hearted decisions in this case? It ALL seems to make a total mockery of the legal system.
Then so many lawyers it seems don't mind that. I wonder why?
08-12-2015 11:18 AM
If that's what he called sorting out apartheid, Nelson Mandela wasted his time.
08-12-2015 2:16 PM
08-12-2015 5:40 PM - edited 08-12-2015 5:40 PM
Even before the incident at the Olympics, to me he came across as a person with the attitude that the rules didn't apply to him and he would force changes where he could to suit him - and woe betide anyone who stuck to their guns.
After the incident, it must surely be clear that he is patently not safe to be allowed out.
The original verdict was quite shocking and even worse was his first attempt at parole from an obscenely short time inside, and then to find that he only served a bit more before being let out anyway.
I guess as he's on parole and his lawyers are appealing the decision, he's allowed to stay out on parole, but it must be heartbreaking and so distressing for Reeva's family.
@******lynda****** wrote:
I never understood the verdict in the first place. If you are living with someone and you wake up hearing sounds in the bathroom, would you not assume it is your partner? And only panic if you found them elsewhere?
When he woke up hearing noises, and he didn't find his partner in bed, then the first assumption would have been that the noises were her.
That is if one can really accept he had been asleep in the first place.
I think there was a terrible miscarriage of justice with this and I hope to goodness the second verdict stands and he is put back inside for a longer time and given proper monitoring to ensure he's no longer a threat to anyone.
08-12-2015 9:12 PM
'I think there was a terrible miscarriage of justice'
Yes, it seems an awful lot of people think that. And it's not difficult to see and hear why.
Most will remember his his wailing, weeping, sobbing, moaning, groaning, yowling, blubbering, sniveling, caterwaul. It made me quite sick actually.
If he had been properly sentenced in the first place, this wouldn't be happening now.
Anyway, I don't think he was smiling, and laughing, now for nothing. I think he's to evil and cunning for that. I have even heard on the radio that the way this is going he may have got away with this.
Reeva is in a coffin for Christmas, and her murderer is at his uncles festivities. The lawyers are rubbing their hands together AGAIN!
Lynda #3 yes. I thought that too.
08-12-2015 10:34 PM
The initial trial was more like a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Trial by Jury'. Absolutely farcical. And Pistorius should, by rights, have been presented with a SAG Award - or an Ocar - for his contribution to high drama. What a travesty that episode was.
I agree with Aernethril. I sincerely hope that for his next appearance, he is incarserated for a very long time, as he rightly should be. And if there was any justice, this would be along with Thokozile Masipa. Preferably both in the same cell.