It's the fine detail that he freely offers that always puts me on high alert with his answers. Why not just say something like, "I needed to protect Reeva and me so I reached down and grabbed my gun". To me it was totally unnecessary to mention the holster at all. If Nel wanted to know if it was in the holster he could have asked, but no, OP had to get it in first and there was probably a reason for that. It's beyond belief all the small detail he remembers about inconsequential things but when it comes to anything important he either didn't have time to think or wasn't sure. In cross-examination alone he didn’t have time to think approx. 12 times and wasn't sure approx. 30 times. Sort of telling isn't it?
And then there’s that excellent article
http://www.africanman.co.za/?p=309
“… in the rest of his affidavit Oscar refers to himself (‘I’
82 times. He refers to Reeva just 6 times”. Yep, it’s all about him. She’s only worthy of being mentioned in passing ... could have been anybody.
“When Oscar describes Reeva (in his affidavit and his testimony) his descriptions are mute and constrained. But his descriptions of everyone else are in the finest details”. “The officer had shorts on…they were casually dressed…” He tells us where they were standing, what they say to him, their gestures and movements. About Stipp we get a psychological assessment. “He seemed overwhelmed by the…the situation.” Stipp, a doctor, discovered the young woman had been shot to death. If there was nothing he could do to save her, this does not mean he was overwhelmed”. Once again, lots of fine detail.
“In Oscar’s affidavit he uses the words ‘I have’ 13 times and shows similar disassociation when referring to Reeva. In explaining how and why he shot Reeva Oscar tells us ‘I have received death threats’ and ‘I have been a victim of violence.’ Why would he say this in his affidavit? These two statements did not have to be included. All he needed to say at this point was that he heard a noise and thought an intruder had entered his home.
“During his testimony-in chief he said, “I ran back to the room…and shouted from the balcony for help. I screamed ‘help, help, help’. I screamed for somebody to help me…. I was crying out to the Lord to help me….” Me, me, me, me, me. “Help me”!!! To my way of thinking, if it was an accident and once he saw what he’d done, a “normal” person would have said “Oh my God, nooooooooooo” and immediately run and grabbed his phone, rung Netcare and said, “I’ve just shot my girlfriend. I’m not sure if she’s still alive but she’s seriously wounded. Send an ambulance immediately”, not sit down for he doesn’t know how long and cried. This can only be because he was waiting for her to die. He said that Netcare had told him to bring her to hospital, except the court was never shown any evidence of that alleged conversation. No doubt he just blubbered into the phone and gave no details whatsoever but phone records would show that he had rung them. And seriously, take a person to hospital with a gunshot wound to the head, an arm that’s virtually amputated, and the hip injury? OP never told Stander to ring for an ambulance only to come to his house and that he shot her because he thought she was an intruder. And how did Oscar feel … saddened. It beggars belief.
“But does he help Reeva? A disabled person trying to carry a mortally wounded person down stairs? Isn’t that reckless endangerment? Oscar claims he was ‘helping’ her by attempting to get her to hospital”. I can’t even begin to contemplate that either he or any of his family or friends would have considered taking her to hospital. Total bulldust and utter cr*p.
“Crucially, during cross-examination Oscar said: “At that point I was shouting and screaming for him (Stipp) to help me.” Me. Not Reeva. And just how was Stipp supposed to help him?
His whole story is disgusting, stomach-churning, revolting and sickening in the extreme, and I hope he rots in prison for many years. He said many times that he didn’t have time to think that night but I’m hoping he’ll have many, many years to think about it when he goes to prison.
- Judgejudi