Estelle
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The problem with this is that has already been testimony that suggests a witness mistook sounds Oscar was making for sounds made by a woman. We know that is what the defense will try to suggest with regard to the screams witnessed. In that event it becomes crucial to prove that the first sounds heard were not the the fatal shots. That has not been done.
From OP's Bail Hearing Affidavit with the focus on possible SOUNDS/SCREAMS/YELLS HEARD BY NEIGHBOURS FROM OP SOUNDING LIKE A WOMAN AND THE SEQUENCE OF SHOTS AND CRICKET BAT SOUNDS:
On my way to the bathroom I
1. SCREAMED "GET OUT OF MY HOUSE"
2. SCREAMED "REEVA PHONE THE POLICE"
3. FIRED SHOTS AT THE TOILET DOOR
4. SHOUTED "REEVA, CALL THE POLICE"
5. RETURNED TO BATHROOM CALLING "REEVA"
6. SCREAMED "HELP" FROM BALCONY
7. TRIED TO KICK TOILET DOOR OPEN
8. BASHED TOILET DOOR WITH CRICKET BAT
9. PANEL/S BROKE OFF
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/19/world/africa/south-africa-pistorius-affadavit/
IMO OP would have been shouting words which would not have sounded like the bloodcurdling screams that MB and CJ or the other neighbours heard. I would have imagined, the neighbours could have heard the words if OP did shout them - not as screams.
The semantics are interesting here because IMO a scream does not consist of a word so in 1,2 and 6 it should read "shouted" not "screamed"
So I am now thinking that Roux already had this idea when he assisted OP in writing his Affidavit, that he would write "screams" in those three places rather than "shouted" and then claim at trial that OP screams like a woman.
I find it very interesting that the word, "scream" was used as I would not have used it in this context, would you?