If the judge isn’t lenient, Pistorius could be facing a 20-year prison sentence, as she has the discretion to decide whether the sentences run separately or concurrently.http://www.thejournal.ie/oscar-pistorius-prison-sentence-how-long-homicide-1667768-Sep2014/
Klatzow has harsh words, too, for the handling of the Oscar Pistorius crime scene. First policeman Hilton Botha was allowed to walk all over it, he says. Then a policeman handled the gun without gloves – and when alerted to this, wiped it clean and puts it down again. A bullet fragment in the toilet bowl was missed. And to top it all off, Pistorius’ watches were stolen.ein interessanter Artikel, die Polizeiarbeit betreffend, ein weiterer Ausschnitt, lohnt sich, es ganz zu lesen
“This is handed out as the best our police can do,” Klatzow said. He added that if Pistorius were to be convicted, it would be in spite of the police work on the case, not because of it.
He said that there is a justifiable expectation that the state, with its powerful resources, should be able to handle the processing and interpretation of forensic evidence correctly: “One would expect the state to get it right.”
But the reality, Klatzow says, is often depressingly different. He cited the example of Fred van der Vyfer, charged with the murder of his girlfriend Inge Lotz in 2005. Van der Vyfer was ultimately acquitted with the aid of Klatzow, who was hired by the accused’s family to look into the forensic evidence which the state claimed fingered van der Vyfer.
Though questions continue to swirl around who killed Lotz, if not Van der Vyfer, Klatzow remains adamant that “there is not a shred of evidence that proved he did it”. But he says it is frightening to consider what could have happened if van der Vyfer had not been from a wealthy family.
“Fred, had he not had the resources to throw R9 million at the case, would be sitting in Pollsmoor Prison,” Klatzow says, despite the fact that the state’s case against him was “nothing but smoke and mirrors”.
"I've just written a book, but I can't match the book written by the police. It's called How to screw-up a crime scene without trying."
Klatzow referred to the case involving Brett Kebble, the mining magnate who was found shot dead in his car in Johannesburg in 2005.
"I've never had the misfortune to come across a worse-handled crime scene."
On the investigation into the death of student Inge Lotz, he said the crime scene had been badly compromised by police officials walking all over it.
"So you'd think the cops would say, okay, we've already screwed up two high-profile crime scenes... let's get the next one right. And then along comes the Oscar Pistorius case..."
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so hieß es nicht nur, das wurde regelrecht im ganzen www so propagiert :D
ja, man lernt irgendwie nicht dazu und Botha scheint da anscheinend besonders resistent für genaue Ermittlungen zu sein.. :D
The sentencing of Oscar Pistorius is due to begin on Monday - and the Olympic athlete could make a personal plea to the court in an effort to avoid jail.
