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If OP needed help picking up RS, why didnt he fetch Frank, who was already on the property?
That is such a good question.
If OP needed help picking up RS, why didnt he fetch Frank, who was already on the property?
That is such a good question.
Frank is referred to by OP as his "houseboy" and apparently sometimes his "servant". It seems he is a jack of all trades.
You ought to listen to Robyn Curnow and especially legal analyst Kelly Phelps on CNN. The latter in particular is a shocker - really bad in terms of not being balanced at all. She claims that Dixon was an excellent witness and Curnow described Nel's questioning of Pistorius as a 'character assassination'. Shockingly bad really.Sky news reporting of today's witness evidence is clearly cut and twisted in favour of OP, it is bloody well annoying. Just as well 'My Lady' hears it all first hand.
Here's the reference (scroll to find) to the kicking the of the dog, he was home:
'..a man he saw lurking in his garden kicked his dog'
http://www.hlntv.com/article/2014/04/07/oscar-pistorius-reeva-steenkamp-murder-trial-day-17
Frankly, I'm amazed OP didn't at least fire a shot into the air when he saw that. If I was daft enough to buy myself a gun and saw some strange man on my property kicking my dog, I think I would definitely fire a warning shot....although I'd be so outraged I'd probably just yell and throw whatever I had to hand - which would be my ipad.
I read an article yesterday where Roux said he estimated finishing the defense case around the middle of May. The only reason that makes sense to me for his running out of witnesses today is that there are very few witnesses in any way helpful to OP, and he's trying to stretch out the process as long as possible to conceal the fact that, re OP's defense, there's no "there" there.
I think most people would like to know the answer to this question .He could have asked him when he went downstairs to unlock the door.
So Carice Stander was awoken by her dogs barking, she personally didn't hear either set's of sound's nor any scream's, this suggest's she was awoken by her dog's barking at the 2nd set of sound's, so would her dog's have slept through gunshots but been woken up by a cricket bat hitting a door like they must have if Oscar's version is true?.
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Pardon if this has been asked and answered, I'm late catching up this morning.
Is it common in SA, when it's 'rather hot', to not run one's air conditioner? Or, is it common to run the a/c and then let all the cool air fly out your sliding door? Or are these estates so shoddily built that no one's a/c works and everyone's sliders were open that night?
Interesting that she had 'issues' regarding the need to fiddle with her sliding doors at just the same time OP happened to run (on his stumps?) to his to yell help help help! Very ... fortuitous. Ahem.
Does anyone know whereabouts this Frank the caretaker's house is in OP's grounds? The grounds of OP's house isn't particularly big and I can't see any outbuildings in the overhead shots, unless I've missed something somewhere .. I also can't see any kind of fountain in the grounds, either ..
"A Malawian housekeeper was staying at Oscar Pistorius's house on the night Reeva Steenkamp was killed but heard nothing and will not be called by either the State or the defence team to give evidence in the athlete's murder trial, it has emerged.
Frank Chiziweni is understood to have slept in the domestic quarters next to Pistorius's kitchen on the ground floor of his home on a security estate outside Pretoria".
Taken from Daily Telegraph tonight.
Going back to Stander's testimony earlier this morning .. how come he was saying that he called for an ambulance when Dr Stipp had already testified saying that when he arrived and saw Stander at the house, he asked him whether an ambulance had been called and Stander said 'no'? Dr Stipp then testified that he had to call for an ambulance himself (and initially called the wrong number because he called the hospital directly, instead of calling the emergency number). Dr Stipp's testimony with regard to calling for an ambulance sounds quite solid to me (and I'm sure can be verified by the hospital .. I very much doubt that in his position as a medical professional, he is going to get that wrong) .. so why is Stander now saying that he called the emergency services when Stipp said that he originally said 'no' he hadn't, at the actual scene of the incident?
This just blows my mind. Frank, his personal assistant was right downstairs, while OP called someone he 'barely knew', and asked that person to drive over, and help him life Reeva into the car?
I wonder why Nel has not asked about this. It is unreal to me. :moo:
I agree.Going back to Stander's testimony earlier this morning .. how come he was saying that he called for an ambulance when Dr Stipp had already testified saying that when he arrived and saw Stander at the house, he asked him whether an ambulance had been called and Stander said 'no'? Dr Stipp then testified that he had to call for an ambulance himself (and initially called the wrong number because he called the hospital directly, instead of calling the emergency number). Dr Stipp's testimony with regard to calling for an ambulance sounds quite solid to me (and I'm sure can be verified by the hospital .. I very much doubt that in his position as a medical professional, he is going to get that wrong) .. so why is Stander now saying that he called the emergency services when Stipp said that he originally said 'no' he hadn't, at the actual scene of the incident?
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