Yes, although we only get to see OP's phone data from 17:15 on the 13 Feb, we get Reeva's from midday that day, and it shows two of the calls he made to her were from the 4949 'business' phone. She doesn't call him on that number at all. It looks to me like OP switches the business phone off outside what he considers to be business hours. His phone log suggests this and the evidence shows that calls and texts to it were not reaching it overnight because it is switched off.
Sam Taylor testifies that he normally kept this phone downstairs in the kitchen on charge overnight. This is where I believe it was on that night and he switched it with the 0020 phone to buy time. It's the 0020 phone that Nel refers to being on charge in the kitchen. Why would OP take a phone that is switched off to the bathroom? And why did he need 2 phones? In fact, OP slips slightly when telling the court about fetching his "phone ... both my phones" from the bedroom. He often makes these little slips.
OP only uses the 0020 phone that night and I think initially the 4949 phone is in the kitchen as usual. So why swap it? My guess is that this is key to what happened. The 0020 phone mysteriously disappears and isn't handed back to police until 25 Feb. OP needed to get it out of the house and away from the police. No chain of custody and nothing is read out from that phone's data (just billing records) in court. But the judge has sight of what, or what was not, on it. Was it tampered with? If so, I'd expect some legal action to follow this case.
Following this line of thought, what could be incriminating on the phone that had to be removed? Evidence of someone else?
OP was asleep. Reeva was up (another OP slip perhaps in his EIC when he states twice that he asked Reeva to close curtains etc. "when you come, when you fall asleep". e.g. when you come up/come to bed). At some point she sees something on his phone, maybe something to do with the usage at around 22:30-midnight. At 01:48 she confronts OP about it (5 mins usage on phone). At 01:56 EvdM hears arguing for an hour. Reeva is shouting at OP. She tells him she is leaving. Perhaps what she finds on his phone is damaging to brand Pistorius? We may never know. The result is as we know and it costs Reeva her life.
I’ve appended this to my previous post as it builds on the argument.
In the I2 Analyst Notebook phone usage charts that Moller shows the court the term GPRS is being used generically to mean data connection. Most of the time the data connection is actually 3G, occasionally slipping to 2G. The phone will always attempt to get the best connection available, hence many short 2G connections which are upgraded to 3G when it is offered by the cell tower. This is negotiated via the control channel, the same channel that is also used for SMS messages. The data connection is always on when the phone is on, unless the signal is lost (in an area of poor coverage or tunnel etc.) or the phone is put in Airplane mode. This is why the times shown on Reeva’s chart for each GPRS cell tower are contiguous.
What the chart does not show is data usage but this is available from the carrier (I can see it when I look at my usage online, where is gives times and amounts of data transferred). I imagine this would have been included in the detailed data provided to the judge.
Switching an iPhone on and off when you don’t want to be contacted is time consuming, especially if you do it often. OP would have learned to switch his phone to Airplane mode during his frequent travelling. This suspends the phone’s signal transmission function and is extremely quick to do (if you know how) on an iPhone. You simply slide up the hidden menu and select it to toggle the setting on and off.
When Carice Stander-Viljoen makes the calls on OP’s behalf in the early morning of the 14th the police would have believed that he was using Carice’s phone and thought nothing of it. Carice testifies that she asked OP if there was anyone he wanted to contact.
I believe OP uses Airplane mode rather than switching the phone physically off when he doesn’t wish to be contacted or to stop it ringing and attracting attention to it. It also explains the short GPRS connections to the same cell tower. The cell tower has no reason to re-establish the connection unless of course he’s flicking in and out of Airplane mode, possibly to check for a Voicemail? I’ll put my draft of his phone usage charts up shortly to illustrate this. As an aside it is possible that this is what he does to the 4949 phone each night too when he charges it in the kitchen.
If the above thinking is correct, this tells us a lot and is contrary to what Moller agrees in cross examination by Roux. It may well be possible to tell things from the connection times.
For instance one can see from his phone usage there is no GPRS connection immediately after receiving the call from Pieter Baba. I believe he has switched to Airplane mode. This is no surprise as the call and conversation (“Everything is fine”
put him off his balance. He didn’t expect Baba to be outside. He thought just the Standers would be arriving. Likewise he flicks it on whilst he’s in the garage.
And looking at the previous evening he flicks to Airplane mode when he gets home, when he has dinner and when he goes to sleep. That all makes sense. It's a habit. Then we have the activity that I believe is Reeva discovering something and challenging OP.
Draft OP phone usage analysis to follow shortly.
