Oscar Pistorius, das Model, der Valentinstag und das war dann Notwehr

#OscarPistorius shaking hands with a members of the ANC's Women's League during the tea break, day 5.

He's been coached well.

https://www.facebook.com/Justice4ReevaSteenkamp/posts/445278818936434?stream_ref=10

Baba testified at 2:55am, a guard on bike duty arrived at the gate and said he'd heard rifle shots.

Witnesses

We have learnt that there is a price to pay for being a witness in court. One had her photo broadcast by a TV channel in spite of a court order barring exactly that, and another had his phone number read out by the defence advocate - resulting in an avalanche of calls and messages, some of them threatening. (Again, it is completely against the law to interfere with witnesses!)

Being a witness also means having your memory, intentions and integrity closely questioned by aggressive lawyers. In the full face of the media, you might come across as a fool or a liar, for simply doing your civic duty.

Who on earth would want to testify in such circumstances? Will this case make it more or less likely that people will step forward in future?

It tells us something about ourselves too, that Pistorius could set off a firearm inside a bustling restaurant in Melrose Arch, Johannesburg’s favourite hangout for the ostentatiously moneyed, and all that would happen is shocked silence, and then nothing. Do we not have occasion to ask if one must reasonably assume that even the nicest boy (which is what many of Pistorius’s fans call him) might set off a shot in a public area?

Outside the courtroom, the media has set up a camp with tents bearing the names of organisation from every corner of the world.

They want Pistorius details in Atlanta, Sydney, London and Paris.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Oscar_Pistorius/Demystifying-Oscar-trial-20140307

Oscar Pistorius murder trial: March 7 as it happened


Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee Olympian, returns to Pretoria court for the fifth day of trial over killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/oscar-pistorius/10682260/Oscar-Pistorius-murder-trial-March-7-as-it-happened.html (Archiv-Version vom 08.03.2014)

Oscar Pistorius case highlights plight of South Africa's disabled prisoners

Detainees on remand in South Africa often endure worse conditions than convicts. This is one paraplegic man's story


http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/22/paraplegic-remand-south-africa

Ahnungslose schrieb:Baba testified at 2:55am, a guard on bike duty arrived at the gate and said he'd heard rifle shots.

#OscarPistorius Baba: says the guards use cel phones and a landline as a means of comms with the residents. BB

https://mobile.twitter.com/barrybateman/status/441910295376965632

#OscarPistorius Baba: at about 02:55 I was back at the gate. The guard on bike duty reported that he had heard gunshots. BB

https://mobile.twitter.com/barrybateman/status/441910624491413504

Baba says that one of the guards then informed him that he heard rifle shots. Then he received telephone calls from residents including Dr Stipp who also made the report that they had heard gunshots from their neighbours. He said he didn't know which neighbours they were referring to.

Baba sent a buggy to Dr Stipp's house, and by then Dr Stipp was standing on the balcony. At that stage Dr Stipp pointed directly at Mr Pistorius's house. Pistorius's hosue was directly visible from Dr Stipp's house and Baba says the lights in Mr Pistorius's house were on so he immediately drove there.