My opinion is that he was shooting at the sound of the person behind the door. Reeva could have stood into the right corner and would have been missed by shots, so could an intruder. IMO, there is no way OP would risk that happening if we are to believe his story.
So imo, OP heard the screams, knew first shot hit target, heard the shuffles, the fall on magazine rack, hence knew location of Reeva, and maybe, could see her through crack in door. Not too convinced of the last one yet.
But if we are to believe there was an heated argument and Reeva fled to the toilet cubicle to escape, all the rest really is a moot point, because OP was enraged for whatever reason and chose to silence her once and for all.
JMHO
Agreed - totally agree that when he shot he could judge his shots in relation to sounds.
Completely agree that locked or not its all a moot point in respect of out come- as is motive, but it's fascinating to try and piece together a narrative based on evidence and lies precisely because he is so defiant in his denials- he doesn't want the sordid reality to be known.
Agree - about him looking through cracks - still not sure of that.
I must say that
MrsB's point about the door tag is really plausible even though I went to great length to write about why she had locked herself in! ie was there really ever a key in the door?
"* OP is a single guy. This toilet was in his master bedroom/bathroom. There was no need for him to ever lock it and therefore no reason to always leave key inserted into lock & hanging from the toilet door. (And when the occasional female guest spent the night, I doubt he ever gave a thought to them needing a key for any reason."
Yes, it is a little strange for a single man to keep a key in a door if he never needs to use it - we typically put those in drawers don't we?
Unrelated points:
Would love to hear if any "spare room" forensics/detective evidence was presented too because, like a previous poster, I do think she may have, during the"kitchen argument" have decided to stay in the spare room- well before it got deadly.
DO also assume that she had said they had better split up either earlier or during the row EVDMerwe heard. Once it got much worse - when she got out her newly laundered jeans she was actually going to try to drive home alone, despite the danger, instead but he wouldn't let her.
We have heard so much about his actions, it's good to consider what she was doing as she did try to survive.
PS Re previous poster Yes she would have known Frank was there, in SA households with servants you do know they are on premises even though they too should be neither seen nor heard in their "downtime" JMO
Yes she may have though Frank might help too.
Really surprised some enterprising SA journalist hasn't tracked him down.
Maybe he's in Arnold's Mozambique bolthole? Nah - probably just been sent back to his family with his cash?!
Again mods, please feel free to tell me to move to theory thread!!
