I also need to listen to that bit again where OP is tesifying about when he 'realised it could be Reeva' .. then checked the bed from the bathroom side, then got off the bed on the balcony side .. then I'm sure he said he checked the floor with his hands before checking the curtains .. but then later on he said he went straight to check the curtains after having checked the bed, and that he only checked along the side of the bed by walking along it! I swear that is what he said! I need to go back and verify ..
OK, have checked it now and he definitely does contradict himself quite substantially on that one .. first saying that he checked the floor with his hands, but then going on to say that he never checked it with his hands only that by walking along the passageway between the bed and the balcony side wall he would've known she was there because he would've tripped over her while walking along that bit! :facepalm:
I've type it out virtually verbatim (all apart from the occasional 'erm' or duplication of insignificant words):
Nel: and the duvet?
OP: MiLady, I know she wasn't on the bed because I crossed the bed <starting to sound angry now>.. I got on, on the foot (?) .. if you look at the bed on the left foot (?) side I still had to help myself up onto the bed because I wasn't tall enough I didn't want to keep my eyes off the passage and I moved across the bed .. when I got to the other side of the bed I was hoping that she was on the floor like I told her to be
Nel: so you what .. you check on the floor?
OP: yes MiLady
Nel: so you had visibility ... you could see if she was on the floor or not
OP: no I couldn't see
Nel: so how did you check to if she was on the floor as you asked her?
OP .. feel MiLady
Nel: but how did you feel? .. what did you do?
OP: with my hands, MiLady
Nel: now if you felt with your hands you've got everywhere because you were now .. she must be there, that's what you told to be
OP: yes that's where I told her to be
Nel: so you would've checked everywhere then
OP: I didn't check everywhere the place is so small MiLady .. if you can get out there <unidentifiable word) it's so small I don't even know if it's a meter .. I ran my hand along the curtain ..my first thought was that it might be Reeva now in the toilet
Nel: lets take it much slower, you told her to get down, you thought she was on the floor on the right hand side of the bed
OP: I was hoping she was there, yes
Nel: now you get onto the bed, and across the bed to the right hand side, am I right?
OP: that's correct MiLady
Nel: and it's pitch dark on your version
OP: that's correct MiLady
Nel: and that your first intention is to feel if she is on the floor
OP: No, my first intention was to feel if she was on the bed, MiLady
Nel: but then she wasn't
OP: that's correct
Nel: and second intention, second thing
OP: was to check that she if was behind the curtains
Nel: why behind the curtains and not on the floor
OP: because I wouldve tripped over her if she was on the floor
Nel: no but why did you not check on it, you didn't check on the floor
OP: MiLady, by walking in the passage if you came across her I would've tripped over her
Nel: but Mr Pistorius, you said 'go down'you thought she was there on the floor why did you not check?
OP: I did check MiLady .. by walking that passage, by walking I got off the right hand side of the bed in the passage between the bed and the curtains .. by walking through that part of the bed around back to the bathroom, that's how I checked.
.. starts from 20:49 in, here ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_hle5shsDY
