Objection
The main reason Botha was dropped from the case was because he and two other officers were accused of firing at a taxi carrying seven passengers during an allegedly drunken incident in 2011
This case was originally dropped but it has been reinstated on February 4th 2013 but police only learned on February 20th that the DPP had reinstated the charges against Botha.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/21/oscar-pistorius-case-lead-detective-removed
Botha made mistakes but what do you expect?
The bail hearing started
five days after the shooting of Reeva and Botha couldn't be expected to have detailed knowledge of all the evidence at that point.
That hearing was meant to be a bail hearing, not a trial within a trial. If it was handled like a proper bail application, there would not have been so many questions. At bail applications you do not have all the information such as forensics.
Even judge Nair said in the end the state could not be expected to put all the pieces of its puzzle together in such a short time.
Roux grilled Botha because he wanted to know what kind of evidence the state would have against OP. But Botha wasn't as stupid as people claim when he confirmed he couldnt find anything that was inconsistent with Oscars version - he didn't want to show all the cards of the PT.
By the way - Roux said his forensic expert went through the toilet
on the afternoon after the shooting.
And it wasn't Botha who was responsible for *hoarding the bullet-riddled door on the floor of his office*. It was the Boschkop police station commander Colonel Schoombie van Rensburg who kept the door in his office. Schoombie van Rensburg has resigned in December last year
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http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Top-Oscar-Pistorius-cop-quits-20131215
