But there was expert testimony that he was especially anxious. I think such a finding is not based on what happened post shooting but is from his character and his character as a disabled person. He claims he felt very vulnerable on his stumps and the SCA seems to have disregarded the finding he was scared for his life. Even though he put himself in that position as he had done before when investigating noises.
There was a psychiatric report stating that he did not have any anxiety disorder on the night in question...signed by three doctors.
I don't care what his mate Derman said. A more biased witness it's hard to imagine.
The SCA did not disregard the finding that he was "scared for his life" - they addressed it and found it to be untrue.
From the top:
Being scared does not justify murder. Do you fully comprehend this?
It is a crime to shoot someone without good reason. This you accept too?
From everything he said in his own testimony, it is impossible to conclude that he held a genuine, rational belief that his life was in danger. Because it was based on nothing.
We cannot put it down to "he wasn't thinking rationally because of his fear" because he clearly was thinking rationally about other things, scared or not.
Even taking into account his "fear" (if it existed), even taking into account that his disability might have provoked more fear than the average person might feel there was still no justification at all for his actions in arming himself, heading off to confront someone, trap them and then kill them.
Fight or flight is irrelevant. That's an instananeous response when under threat. It would make total sense if Pistorius shot an intruder who leapt out at him...having to fight because he couldn't flee.
But fetching your gun and deliberately hunting down a human being does not count as a "fight or flight" response.
His intention to kill began the moment he fetched his gun. And, far from trying to use his disability to explain why he did this, it actually gives lie to his entire version....because a disabled person is the least likely of all to behave in such a reckless manner.
He would have been dead if there had been an armed intruder. They would have heard his shrieks run out and shot him.
But this is a bit academic. There was no intruder...he killed his girlfriend, and he knew that's what he was doing. You know it, he knows it, we all know it.