Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Well - I guess I am hoping for 3 things
1. An appeal
2. Someone leaks the trial exhibits - we need ALL the call logs!
3. Someone blabs
Or failing all that - see you for Nel's memoirs in 20 years!
I agree! Meanwhile, I'm continuing to work on what really happened with what information we have and think I'm close to having a version that fits all the objective facts. I know there will be no re-trial but I still want to get as close to the truth as possible. I am now convinced the bat comes after the gunshots ... but before anyone fears I'm doing a complete about face on OP's guilt, I also think he knew Reeva was in the toilet. More to follow.
Those who are decrying that OP shouldn't go to jail or that 5 years is too long seem to forget that for the victim, it's a life sentence
“Five years doesn't seem very long a sentence to make up for taking someone else's life. After all, that person is gone forever, not just relocated to the underworld for a few years. Ten months is a bad joke”.
So why is it that the victim and the one now paying the ultimate price in this scenario, seems to be the furthest from people's minds when discussing the ruling.
OP is even starting to be framed as the new 'victim' - with a life ruined by the experience.
Articles discuss his future - a future Reeva was robbed of - and even speculate about when he'll next race.
(I wish I could have quoted the entire article. It's really good)
https://uk.lifestyle.yahoo.com/blog...-killed--let-s-not-forget-that-122418295.html
9 minute interview with Marc Batchelor on the sentence.
http://www.sport24.co.za/Multimedia/Other-Sport/Batch-weighs-in-on-Oscars-sentencing-20141022
OP’s agent, Peet van Zy,l says he's seeking a meeting with him in prison in the next few days to discuss his running future. South Africa's Olympic committee says OP is ineligible to compete for five years.
He said that lawyers will meet with OP in prison on Friday, after which it will become clearer when Van Zyl and OP’s track coach, Ampie Louw, can talk to him about his career.
The only thing Peet and Ampie can tell him about his career is that it’s over, finito.
http://www.bradenton.com/2014/10/23/5431610_pistorius-agent-to-have-prison.html?rh=1
OPs agent, Peet van Zy,l says he's seeking a meeting with him in prison in the next few days to discuss his running future. South Africa's Olympic committee says OP is ineligible to compete for five years.
He said that lawyers will meet with OP in prison on Friday, after which it will become clearer when Van Zyl and OPs track coach, Ampie Louw, can talk to him about his career.
The only thing Peet and Ampie can tell him about his career is that its over, finito.
http://www.bradenton.com/2014/10/23/5431610_pistorius-agent-to-have-prison.html?rh=1
Makes me sick and VERY angry
The speed in which his manager and coach lay their hands on him - solely to get their OWN careers starting again asap, using OP as their 'vehicle'. It's disgusting. FGS - how can they ever pretend to care about him ???
No matter how one may feel about OP, I think right now he has a myriade of other things to be concerned about. It's really weird for me to write this down - but I feel pity for him now.
Makes me sick and VERY angry
The speed in which his manager and coach lay their hands on him - solely to get their OWN careers starting again asap, using OP as their 'vehicle'. It's disgusting. FGS - how can they ever pretend to care about him ???
No matter how one may feel about OP, I think right now he has a myriade of other things to be concerned about. It's really weird for me to write this down - but I feel pity for him now.
The NPA, however, has indicated that it has an "appetite" to appeal. "We have always stated first and foremost that we were disappointed with the conviction," NPA spokesman Nathi Mncube told reporters.
Officials described Pistorius as tense and nervous when he was fingerprinted upon his arrival. Prison commissioner Zebilon Monama told the South African Press Association that the jail’s chaplain and psychologist met with Pistorius, as he tried to adjust to his new surroundings. He underwent a medical examination before going into his cell.
Asked if she believed the athlete's account that he shot Steenkamp through a locked toilet door under the mistaken belief that she was an intruder, June Steenkamp expressed skepticism.
"No -- there's more to the whole story than everybody knows, only Oscar knows," she said.
There, he will have undergone a health risk assessment within six hours of arrival, Morwane said. Within 21 days, a comprehensive assessment of his needs will be done.
Oscar Pistorius was heard weeping inconsolably during his first night in prison.
http://www.scotlandnow.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/strathclyde-university-urged-strip-oscar-4490542
Do you think that the University of Strathclyde should strip OP of his Honorary Degree?
Yes 30% No 70%
Please vote at above link!