The ballistics expert has said, in court, that it had to in fact be one shot, a break and then three more. I don't understand why an experts testimony is being ignored.
By the way, how do we know that Van Der Merwe actually heard the gunshots as bang-bang-bang-bang and not OP hitting the door twice, the metal plate on the tub once and the tiles on the side of the door once? Of course this then means that OP lied and the cricket bat came first. Also, if Reeva was in fact still alive when he was carrying her down the stairs then the gunshots had to have come at a time closer to 3:17 am, which would put the gunshots second and cricket bat first.
MOO
Merwe only heard the second set of bangs ...not the first. She lives to left side of Oscars. Although she heard the argument prior and I addressed this with the positioning of the accused & victim as being on the left of the house at the time, not in the bedroom or bathroom that are on the right side. She didn't hear the 3 bangs(softer?) but she definitely heard the shots (louder) Burger was further away but the gaps between houses and noise bouncing off walls of other homes allowed for her to hear first & second set of bangs but not the argument.
Van der Merwe also testified about hearing arguing and bangs on the night Reeva Steenkamp was murdered.
http://www.citypress.co.za/news/mys...ment-oscar-pistorius-house-last-month-solved/
This evidence concluded a dramatic morning in court, which saw Michelle Burger, who lives in an estate next to Pistorius, breaking down and crying on the witness stand.
This followed a withering cross-examination by Roux, who accused her of refusing to concede anything that is good for the accused.
You see, even when I ask for an obvious concession, you will still not make it
because its good for the accused, said Roux.
Yesterday, Burger testified that she had heard a womans terrified screams which became increasingly anxious that she had heard a man cry for help three times and that she then heard four gunshots.
But Roux accused her of coming to testify with preconceptions about Pistorius, which were based on negative media coverage.
If a man is about to kill his girlfriend with a firearm, she runs away and he shoots her, one thing thats inconsistent [in that] is a man in that house shouting for help to the extent that you reconcile that with them being attacked, Roux said to her.
Roux put it to Burger that what she had really heard was not the screams of a woman, but those of Pistorius, after he had discovered that it was Reeva he had killed.
She refused to concede this, saying that it wasnt possible because she had heard the woman screaming just before the mans plea for help.
Roux also questioned if it was possible for Burger to have heard screams during the shots and fading away after the shots, as she had testified.