Estelle
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May I just vent about the things in this trial that seem suspicious to me?
From the start we were warned OP had been over charged and could get off the charge of premeditated murder. Then there were things like phone records that should have shown times called. Why look at the phones themselves? Is SA different? OPs phone records should have shown all the people he called. If it is so difficult to nail down times why would they toss multiple testimony about fighting and screaming so as to make dubious phone records match an uncertified scenario?
Why were obvious signs of an altercation overlooked? A bullet hole in the bedroom door, clothes ripped off, bedclothes tossed around bullet dent in the side of tub, blood all over end of bat, jeans lying outside the murder cubicle (was she trying to flag for help?). How loud is an air gun or a door slam? I would think louder than a few cricket bat pries on a panel door. Why was forensic evidence of them being awake a short time earlier tossed because OP said they were fast asleep. That bruise on her back...I never knew the dead could bruise. Since when do corpses hold their pee? Why didn't prosecution ask for maximum of 15 yrs as Nels said the crime was on the outer limits of culpable homicide?
Maybe it is the way the SA justice system works but all the grandstanding looked like they were putting on a show to make it look like they were being hard on OP. OP looked like he had to pretend he was suffering.
Has anyone told him he can stop acting now? I have never before heard the word of the accused accepted as fact so that any evidence must be twisted to fit or else ignored if it won't.
As for his"career", I hope Canada has no plans to let a felon in here.:tantrum:
Excellent post. I agree with everything you have said. Is this the fault of the head guy in their police force? Why weren't visuals of the timeline made by both sides to explain as far as they could all the bits of evidence to form the mosaic? Are visuals not allowed in courts these days? They are in the US and were used very successful by the Defence in the Casey Anthony case. Human beings are visual people so visuals assist the understanding. I realise that sometimes they cannot be accurate so they can say "about this time" or "between this time and that". What Mr Fossil is working on now should have been done by the police as they collected evidence. Police training is certainly lacking in South Africa. There were so many missed opportunities to nail this. The evidence was there but about one quarter of it was ignored. Timeline should have been done as they went along.