From OP's bail application statement:
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I am acutely aware of violent crime being committed by intruders entering homes with a view to commit crime, including violent crime. I have received death threats before. I have also been a victim of violence and of burglaries before. For that reason I kept my firearm, a 9 mm Parabellum, underneath my bed when I went to bed at night.
I felt a sense of terror rushing over me. There are no burglar bars across the bathroom window and I knew that contractors who worked at my house had left the ladders outside. Although I did not have my prosthetic legs on I have mobility on my stumps.
It filled me with horror and fear of an intruder or intruders being inside the toilet. I thought he or they must have entered through the unprotected window. As I did not have my prosthetic legs on and felt extremely vulnerable, I knew I had to protect Reeva and myself. I believed that when the intruder/s came out of the toilet we would be in grave danger. I felt trapped as my bedroom door was locked and I have limited mobility on my stumps."
The parts that I have quoted directly from OP's bail application statement told Nel where the defense was going to go with their defense. The downstairs broken window shows that OP was not as afraid of intruders as he claims. Nel then in turn entered into evidence the picture of the broken downstairs window in order to bring that up to OP if/when OP took the stand. As a lawyer for the State, Nel would not have been doing his job if he did not enter that picture into evidence. It goes to show that OP is lying in regards to his fear of intruders.
link for bail application statement:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/210201629/Oscar-Pistorius-Bail-Application-Statement
MOO
Yeah, I don't think not getting a window fixed right away is evidence of lying. Just don't. I need more than that, and so far we have more evidence than not that he had issues with feeling safe. Who knows, maybe the window had been broken for only a couple days and his contractor could only get it done on the 14th or 15th?
That may be evidence of procrastination, but not that he's lying about his own fears, of which there is evidence he has. My MIL is a very paranoid woman. She's an old Polish woman so it's kind of cultural. But she is the most cautiously fearful person I have ever known. Can't feed my daughter gluten around her, she freaks out, always looking outside, making sure nothing's going on. What, I don't know. Keeps pepper spray all over the house since she lives alone. But she doesn't have bars up all over the house, no guard dogs, save for a golden, in the summer she opens up every window in the house because she doesn't want AC because she's afraid of allergies and such.
We don't know why exactly people do what they do or why they feel what they feel. Maybe they know, deep inside, their fears are irrational. Maybe they convince themselves they can't be afraid of everything all the time, and make the decision to live their lives, fear be damned. But it doesn't mean they don't go away. Things like that can imprint on your soul.
We're not in Oscar's head. We don't know for a fact he doesn't have fears. Everyone has fears. To say that this window is evidence of his lies is just too thin IMO. If that's where Nel's going with it, then God bless him for trying. But to believe the the whole thing is untrue because he has a crack in his window. No, gonna need a little more than that. We've heard from ST about him waking her up, fearing intruders. We've seen that tweet about going recon mode on his washing machine. Why is it so hard to believe he may actually have the issues he says he does?
