That reminds me, I met a girl at a club the other night and she told me she’d show me a good time.

When we got outside, she ran 100m in 9.69 seconds.

Wtf is that all about

 

For a guy charged with murder, he still has a surprising spring in his step...

 

And the winner is............

 

I dont think there's much chance of him not being found guilty, he hasnt got a leg to stand on.

 

Well this ones going to run and run....bit like the dewani murder

Except there were neighbours

 

I was thinking that.

South Africa jail is very bad, I hear. It's like the ones in the movies e.g. Vinnie Jones' football film one.

 

Can you imagine getting out of bed strapping on your legs, whist not even glimpsing the shape next to you
Then seeing a light on in the john, reaching for your tools and deciding there's an intruder taking a dump and best shot him away

Bloody unlucky, im not saying he didn't make a mistake -. but just crazy eh

 

Or.....you live in country where break ins and murders are relatively common. You are a well off person who is a potential target. You wake from a deep sleep, hear a noise, adrenalin kicks in and you move on stumps (his version) and shoot as you feel threatened (given your disability).

Sounds unlikely to me as I would have expected him to give a warning before firing but it is a different world and only time will tell (if ever)what happened.

 

Why would, even if they could get over the walls and past gate man, assailant be cowering in the loo

And wouldn't his first reaction be enquire where his women was first

 

And a gaffe like his must have had a decent alarm system and, I would have thought, a few hungry guard dogs.

He could well become the O J Simpson of South Africa.

dl

 

Look at the layout of his room/house. It seems soooo unlikely that an intruder would sneak past sleeping occupant to go into an ensuite bathroom and then into a tiny toilet cubical closing the door behind him. Even in the 'heat of the moment' I can't so how anyone could ever expect to find anyone other than their partner/spouse in there.

Factor in that they were heard arguing, that he shot downwards to try and make it 'look' like he was shooting from a lower height (i.e. on his stumps), that he made no attempt to turn on a light or make a warning, and that he didn't call from one of 4 mobiles for help. It seems pretty clear what happened to me.

 

I don't disagree with any of the above BUT......

We don't know all the facts yet, there has NOT been a trial just some partial detail played out with loads of press speculation.

We can't just assume someone is guilty based on this.

My gut feel is he did it but how do we know he shot downwards to make it look like he was shooting from a lower height based on what we have heard? Etc etc

God help us all if we are faced with any sort of trial.

 

Read something on BBC news website about angle of bullets through the wood. I agree, lots of facts still to emerge. However, it certainly doesn't look good and I really struggle to see how his story (even if he can prove every fact of it) is justification for what he did.

You don't just unload rounds into a tiny ensuite bathroom in the dark in the middle of the night without there being more than a good chance that it's your wife/gf as opposed to a random intruder with a toilet bowl fetish. I know it's not the UK, but I still feel that shooting unprovoked into a tiny room blind when you know a human is in there is intent to kill and surely that, if nothing else, is a crime in any country?

 

that's the point -- whether it was his girlfriend or not

he seems a bit trigger happy

 

Prosecuter looks to be piece of work too , case is allready compromised by him stepping all over the room/ door handles...

 

The Blade Runner is going to need Bob Massingbird in his corner as more info comes out.

 

Granted bail then?

I get the feeling the "Chewbacca Defense" is going to be used.

 

What a shambles, couldn't do anything else really

 

More misery for the South African police.

 

Or maybe he is innocent?

 

Yep he's left the windows open all night with a loaded gun under his pillow got up cos he heard a sound, innocently shooting somebody offering no resistance stone cold dead

 

Maybe he did

You heard the evidence to make a judgement either way or just going on the half baked detail we have heard so far?

FWIW, I do think he is guilty but we are too quick to judge based on half the facts

 

Where will he turn up dead ?
He's surely going to do himself in now.

 

I've stayed in people's houses in Pretoria as a mate of mine got married there. Living in fear is just the way it is out there, the family pet is a pitbull, the gardens have barbed wire, even in the gated communities, there are armed private guards in mini outhouses dotted around the housing estates, it's like a peacetime warzone. People live in constant fear that they will be robbed/raped/murdered even in their own homes, so it's not that surprising that he is trigger happy.

 

Jeezus why would anybody want to continue living in a country like that?

 

Because most of it isn't quite like that.!?!




It's also an amazing mix of people's and cultures,a very young country full of hope, breathtaking scenery and of course where we all come from ultimately

 

So a burglar just nips over the wall, cuts the wire, pats the pitbull on the head and waves to the armed guard befoe climbing into the bathroom. Yeah right!!

dl

 

Hm. I think you have to be a damn good runner to live over there.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21563911


Seeems bad luck runs in the family!

 

i swear this is true. when the story broke a few weeks back we were on a break in work and i was reading the story in the paper, so i said to the young guy who works for me "i see that bladerunner guy is getting done for murder" "who? harrison ford?" we were all rolling on the floor lol.