Oscar Pistorius is guilty.....

For me anyway

 

Right, you've convinced me. Thanks for putting such a fair, insightful and legally astute case. Hang him and throw away the key!

 

Won't he start to smell after a short while?

 

Sorry, I meant hang him, embalm him and throw away the key. In that order.

 

Actually Twillo may have a point. Perhaps this should be how we administer the South African legal system. The members of the BBS serve as jury, based on a bail application, processed through the limited information that serves the particular agenda of whichever media outlet we happen to subscribe to, with the decision conducted by one of our much loved polls.

Access to the courtroom through a Colchester stub.

Either that or we can start naming random people as criminals based on tenuous rumours.

 

At one time you were innocent until proved guilty. Nowadays you are guilty until proved innocent

 

Does anyone know the South African legal system at all, as in do they have death sentence for murder.

 

I think the worst he can get, if guilty of Section (?) 6 crime is an indeterminate sentence with no parole for the first 25 years.

 

No, they don't have the death penalty.

 

I m glad about that.
At the end of the day we and no one will ever know the truth except Oscar and his now departed girlfriend, he seems very remorseful so that tells me hes either a very good actor or and i hope this is the case it was a tragic misunderstanding.

 

Might as well stick his decaying body up in arrivals at Jo'burg airport to deter any miscreants from breaking the law. Just like we used to do with pirates on the banks of the Thames...

 

I would like to think it was a tragic accident, but the more I read and hear about it, the more it doesn't sound good for him

 

It's not a tragic accident. He aimed the gun and fired it. There's no debate about that. He may not have meant to shoot his girlfriend (he may have done, we don't know) but he definitely meant to shoot someone. When you set out to shoot someone and you achieve that, it's not an accident. In my opinion, if we all started shooting people rustling about in bathrooms the world would be a much worse place. He may not be guilty of the premeditated murder of his girlfriend, but he's certainly guilty of summat. You don't shoot someone through a bathroom door. You ask who is in there. It could be yer mam coming round for a piss.

 

I did wonder how when you wake up in the pitch black, you can't locate your girlfriend who you believe is in bed next to you, but you can locate your prosthetic limbs and gun then make your way to the locked toilet door and shoot several times through it. Does anyone else lock their en suite when using it in the night?

 

I bet Columbo could work it out.

 

Agreed. Or shooting anyone, anywhere really. Apparently he nearly shot his mate in the foot the week before when dicking around with someone's gun.

That said the South African rugby player who shot his daughter was let off. He might not have known it was his daughter, but he clearly thought it was acceptable to shoot someone driving away from his houses in his car. I imagine living with what he did is a worse punishment than any prison sentence but he obviously had little regard for the life of whoever he thought he was shooting at.

 

They've argued, she's locked herself in loo......he's flipped and shot at the door, unfortunately fatally wounding her. I reckon that's the long and short of it.

 

Course he is. He can tell all the tales he wants but the evidence (well what has been reported anyway) tells a different story.

 

Not anymore.

 

Re: Oscar Pistorius is guilty..... What I don't understand, unless...

...the press reported it inaccurately (highly unlikely!!!??) Pistorius claimed:
1 He did not have his prosthetic legs on when he got out of bed and so felt very vulnerable and anxious
2 Hearing a noise in the bathroom he was scared and fired the gun (he just happened to have handy) into the bathroom as he thought there was an intruder
3 Failed to notice his girlfriend's side of the bed was empty
4 Carried his wounded girlfriend downstairs (see point 1??) Did he stop in his panicked state to put his legs on before calling emergency services??

Don't know whether he is guilty or not but the above - with the huge caveat re accurate media reporting - just doesn't add up.