So OP had a black eye in January, 2013 as the article you posted said it happened a month before. The article is dated 25 February, 2013. Has the video ever appeared online?
Will the appeal include the verdict on the illegal bullets in his safe that he was acquitted of?
".. now comes the knowledge of the appeal. [i assume the lawyers' visit would have been to brief him on this possibility]
I agree with a lot of the above Cherwell. Doubtless Nel will have had some niggling regrets about the way he played it at certain points.( ie He is bound to be self -critical, he is a top prosecutor - you don't get to be that successful without self/ "post-match" analysis. )
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I tried searching for the video the other day when I stumbled upon this story and couldn't find anything as it seems to have been scrubbed, sadly. What on earth was he thinking, turning up to be filmed for a video looking like that .. he clearly didn't seem to think there was anything wrong at all with it, though! :facepalm:
Didn't Masipa say that the verdict was unanimous? Can't see why she would say that if she had been overruled.
It has also emerged that the athlete sported a mysterious black eye in a video filmed a month ago for a charity campaign.
The Paralympian lent his support to a South African *campaign for gay and lesbian youth. But charity bosses were surprised when he turned up for filming with a black eye.
In the video message recorded to raise awareness for the It Gets Better campaign in South Africa, Oscar instructed young people who were being bullied about their sexuality to 'not retaliate'.
An It Gets Better charity source told the Sunday Mirror: 'Oscar turned up on the day of filming with a very angry *looking black eye.
'Oscar was keen for the filming to still go ahead and didnt seem to mind too much. Although eyebrows were raised, Oscar wasnt forthcoming on how he managed to get the injury.'
Absolutely, but I didn't mean the Heads of Argument for the judgment, I meant for sentencing. Was it called HoA for sentencing? I can't remember. I didn't like his HoA for the verdict at all either and I said as much. Too rushed, too disjointed, and I think I said at the time that posters here could have done it better. The Baker's Dozen was very disappointing. I think he thought he had it in the bag, well so did we, but it wasn't to be.
I'll never forget watching Nel as the verdict was read.
He never looked up.
I'm not sure he even moved.
He was pressing down so hard on his pencil/pen that I thought it would snap.
He got redder and redder as she kept stumbling through her papers until the top of his ears literally looked white to me.
(The white tops of those ears will stick with me forever.)
It seemed like an old cartoon where someone gets so mad that when their "slow burn" finally morphs into all-out flames, a really loud a steam engine whistle blows as smoke clouds pour out of their ears.
The producer of the 'It Gets Better South Africa' gay youth support campaign has confirmed that Oscar Pistorius has been dropped from the project.
The fallen sporting icon is facing charges of premeditated murder related to the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at his Pretoria home in the early hours of Valentines Day.
Pistorius and other local celebrities recently recorded video clips for the campaign, which is set to be launched on Wednesday.
When I click the link Mr Fossil provided...I get a page that has a link..if you click that link..you will get to his screen that has the timelines and witness statements..
Hope that works for you..
Hooray! Enjoy! Might be worth saving any files you open if your link is slow.Thank you so much, AW2B. That did indeed work for me though it took about (20) mins. for my slow dial-up to open. lol
After coming back to WS, I saw @Mr.Fossil's post of data links just below your reply. I clicked on "phone usage" link and within (3) mins it OPENED!!! Hooray!
Do we have any more details this morning regarding the appeal:
1. Does Masipa have to approve it or does it go directly to the SCA?
2. Is there an approximate date as to when this will take place, are we looking at a year down the road?