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I bet she calls this integrity.

Her whole judgement was so bad, it'll be good for the appeal, if it comes.

I'm bemused by how Masipa still managed to mitigate based on remorse even though OP refused to take the stand at mitigation.

It's as though she felt the need to rebut the SCA's findings in order to have the last word. Stupid and stubborn and unprofessional. But IF the State appeal it's actually the best outcome. The SCA will sentence appropriately.

Masipa strikes me as stubbornly stupid and incapable of taking the SCA's judgement on board. Silly though, because if there's an appeal OP will likely get lots more time. It would be better for him if she'd given him 8-9 years and let the whole thing die away. Why highlight (again) that your...

[/B] So if things are so dire why isn't he hospitalised? Presumably because the psychiatrists don't agree with the psychologists. So, really, you could say Masipa that has a duty of care to consider that Dr Scholtz thinks that he mental health is deteriorating to the point that he needs to be...

Me neither. He lost me at the Reeva wouldn't have wanted me to waste my life tripe. As though he's some sort of grieving widower rather than an entitled, hot-heated idiot who murdered his girlfriend in hideous circumstances. He'd only been going out with her for 3 months. I'm glad Brexit has...

I've just read the comments, about 99.5% think he's a vile, snivelling liar. As a PR exercise i don't think this really worked.

There's a whole heap of stuff that a more competent judge would have shut down. Like the screams. Roux promised the court that he, "would prove that Oscar screamed like a woman when he was terrified" (or thereabouts). Not that some men can sound like some women when they scream which is what...

And - going back to basics - he bought a house with stairs, tiles and didn't modify it in any way.

I agree, but I doubt Oscar does.

Oscar will want to appeal any jail time at all, IMO. He's shown no genuine remorse - I bet he's still incredulous that he was charged in the first place, let alone convicted of murder. He'd be crazy to appeal say, a five year sentence, but I reckon he'd need to be talked out of it. It'd be...

The PR effort massively overestimated Oscar's appeal to the so-called average person. IIRC Arnie was rabbiting on after the initial verdict (or maybe just before) that the long term plan was to get him to the Olympics, as though some hard remorse and grief wiuld pace the way for redemption...

Surely that's bordering on the delusional.

But Oscar wasn't on the stand.

It's interesting that her father had a disability. Pistorians seem to fall into a few discrete groups : women with rescue fantasies, people who have family members affected by disability and pseudo-intellectual types (often men) who post their learned opinions on the Internet. The first two...

She's a well-known Pistorian - nothing new there.

The cynic in me thinks that all of the sentencing arguments were unnecessary, as Maipsa's probably already made up her mind. In essence, she was peer reviewed and found wanting with both her shoddy legal reasoning exposed and also her analysis of the State's circumstantial evidence. (As an...

I agree with the Steencamps releasing the pictures, for all people are braying about it being "distasteful". OP reduced her to being an entirely mute victim, utterly non-verbal whilst being slaughtered. Masipa reduced her to someone who "is good in front of the camera". OP has tried to shift the...

Presumably those same children that the convicted murderer wants to work with, in lieu of going to prison.