I promised I would get back so here goes. Firstly I need to correct some timing. I have listened to Mrs Stipps evidence (not the cross ex that I listened to before). She does say the clock registered 03.17 when hearing the second set of sounds. Given that her clock is known to be 3-4 minutes fast she is talking about 03.13-03.14. So the length between the shots, on her timekeeping, was between 15-16 minute apart. I think I was confused a little by having listened to Roux and Nel arguing about the timing when both stated 03.17 for the second sounds. So we now have first sounds at 02.58 and second sounds at 03.13/14. If one follows OP's argument that the first sounds were in fact when he killed RS, he left it 21 minutes before calling Stander for help at 03.19. WHY? At 3.21 he told security he was OK or fine, ie did not need help. WHY? It seems neither OP or Stander had called for an ambulance until Stipp arrived. WHY?
One of the most interesting tactical battles in terms of trial management all along was the difficulty in timings for the defence that needed to be kept as confusing as possible, even though OP must obviously know what the timings were.
The problem is as follows.
The second bangs are fixed by Stipps call to the security phone at 3:15:51 (we don't know how exactly that relates to Stipps' personal clocks)
While Stipp might have been able to call essentially as the 2nd bangs were heard, Mike N also calls security - so there has to be enough time for his wife to wake him up, muck around, and then call security.
Generously that puts the 2nd bangs at 3.14 at the latest - and the "shots" somewhere from 2-5 mins earlier - which creates impossible difficulty with the blood spray
So the "fix" for this is to pretend that Mr & Mrs N were awoken by the first shots and completely don't hear the second bangs !!
However that creates a mess of Stipp's evidence so now we are pretending they had their timings out by 10 mins and order wrong!
But even with all this - it doesn't work
The problem is that all the screaming really needs to be short. Grab gun. Shout a bit. Shoot. Break door. 2-3 mins. That's a lot of screaming and yet doesn't cover what the witnesses heard.
So because of the "timeline" (™
it also needs to be more like 5+ mins not to mention filler time of hugging Reeva etc to account for the missing 2 odd mins before calling.
So you end up with the strangeness of the time between the shots being both a couple of minutes and 5 minutes according to OP
But clearly neither elapsed time can work in order for the Stipps to work with Mr N AND for Mr Johnson to still hear shots at 3.17
Especially because Stipp either has to call security to report 2nd shots which haven't happened yet OR hasn't got enough time to call
Even shaving 10 mins off the Stipps and ignoring what time they saw on their clock can't fix that aspect.
You keep coming back to OP needing to shoot Reeva at around 3.12 - but then the impossibility of Arterial spray after 3.19
Or you can shorten it by 2-3 mins but then people are trying to dial in shoots which didn't happen yet
