This is the final version. There are a couple of new entries, amendments and additional information. The Van der Burgh/Batchelor incidents have been changed yet again after much checking.
Feb 14, 2006 - Nodded off at the wheel after setting off for Vicky Miles’ house, 400 miles from his, at 3am after they had a blistering row. One side of the vehicle was completely destroyed.
2008 - At the pre-games training camp for the Beijing Paralympics he phoned David O’Sullivan and raged about what he perceived to be an inadequate training kit. His fury caught O’Sullivan by surprise. OP “knew he couldn’t be ignored and his anger would ensure his demands were met”.
2008 – OP’s ex-stylist, Francois Louw, witnessed a terrifying temper tantrum whilst they worked together to create a fragrance. When there was an issue when delivering the finished products, OP screamed, swore, kicked the garage door, went inside and screamed even louder, swearing constantly. He also threatened Louw’s family.
Sept 12, 2009 - Cassidy Taylor-Memmory charged OP with assault when he punched a door so hard a piece broke and fell on her leg following an argument with his then girlfriend, Melissa Rom.
Feb 21, 2009 – Crashed his boat into a relatively new pier on the Vaal River which shattered his face and nearly cost him his life. He lied when he said that 1) the pier was submerged; 2) it happened at sunset (it was after 10pm); 3) he hadn’t been drinking (he was seen drinking in a river pub and 3 empty bottles of liquor were found on his boat. He was never breath tested).
A further individual had an altercation with OP on the river that same evening which occurred “long” after sunset but before the boating accident took place.
Sept 6, 2011 - Stormed out of a BBC radio interview after taking exception to a question about his fight to take part in non-disabled athletics.
Oct 2011 – At a Kings of Leon concert he was very drunk and stumbled into a group of people. Later, two women were practically shoved off their feet by an aggressive OP. One told him his behaviour was rude and unacceptable. He was extremely abusive to the two women, calling them “*advertiser censored**ing lesbians”. One of the women said “What is your problem?” to which he replied, “I’m drunk, what’s yours?”
June/July, 2012 - Attends shooting range with friends, including Francois Hougaard, and fires at a watermelon which explodes. He says,” It’s a lot softer than brain, but *advertiser censored**, it feels like a zombie stopper.”
July/Aug 2012 - Temper tantrum at London Paralympics when he loses a race to Brazilian, Alan Oliveira whom he wrongly accuses of using illegal blades. Following his outburst on the track he was taken to an underground room where he went on a 2 hour rampage, shouting, screaming, crying, hitting tables, kicking walls and throwing furniture around. Each time Paralympic chiefs went into the room to try and calm him down they saw a fresh escalation of his hysterical reaction.
Room-mate, Arnu Fourie changes rooms to get away from OP’s constant screaming on the phone.
Sept 2012 - Enraged by jealousy, confronts and swears at Quinton van der Burgh at the Kyalami racetrack about his relationship with Sam Taylor. He said he would break his legs and *advertiser censored** him up.
Sept 2012 - Started sending threatening SMSes to Van der Burgh.
Sept 30, 2012 - Shoots through the sunroof of a car.
Nov 2012 - Marc Batchelor, a friend of van der Burgh got involved and he and OP exchanged threatening SMSes. Threatened to break Marc Batchelor’s legs.
Nov 2012 – Divaris arranged a meeting with the Hawks to settle the dispute. Batchelor said OP turned up with a black eye and stitches in his head because he had been involved in a fight at a party the night before. Schultz said, “He was so pissed he fell and cut his head. He was dancing with his gun”.
Jan 2013 - Tasha’s shooting incident
Jan 2013 – Turned up for filming at “It Gets Better” gay and lesbian youth campaign with a very angry looking black eye
Feb 2013 - Shoots and kills Reeva
Apr 2013 - 52 days after killing Reeva he turned up, uninvited, at a private party in Illovo, Joburg, hosted by a businessman. Guests said he was drunk, knocking back one drink after the other, including tequila shots. He hit on Kesiah Frank, a beautiful blonde model who holds a law degree. He asked her to dance and flirted with her repeatedly until she made it clear she was not interested.
Apr 6, 2013 - Out partying with friends at the Kitchen Bar restaurant, throwing back shooters and patted a friend’s girlfriend on the bottom. Patrons were shocked and thought it horribly insensitive to go out for drinks with friends so soon after Reeva's death.
After leaving the Kitchen Bar he went across the road to the Buddha Ta cocktail lounge accompanied by Craig Lipschitz who was involved in a vicious brawl with former bouncer, Guil Yahav. Lipschitz is always accompanied by 4 bodyguards. Yahav was implicated in the vicious murder of another bouncer, Patrick Caetano who was hacked to death with a butcher’s knife at the Kyalami Business Park and was caught on CCTV.
July 2014 – OP attended The VIP Room nightclub with Guil Yahav. He was intoxicated and got involved in an argument with Jared Mortimer. The club’s bouncers were asked to remove him after he then got into a confrontation with another man.
Miscellaneous:
2002 - At 15 he was allowed to drive Carl’s car illegally around Pretoria
2004 - Bought his first car when he was 17, too young for a driver’s licence
Mothers had to remove their children from the gym because of his continual swearing. He was known to rant and rave as he struggled to complete the simplest of routines, would stalk out in a fury, returning only when his anger had expired.
His biographer Gianni Merlo said, "He could get very furious suddenly"
