BIB
Nope, it was between 1:57 and 3 as per her testimony:
EVDM(I): My lady I woke up around 1:56 in the morning. I heard sounds. It seemed like somebody was involved in a fight and this people they are talking in loud voices, my lady. It lasted for about an hour. I couldn't hear what this person was saying and I also couldn't understand in what language this person was talking."
I think the interpreter misinterpreted "this people" and "loud voices" because she only heard one voice as per the following exchange after Nel referred to the "voices" she had heard:
Judge: She didn't say voices.
EVDM(W): Eine voice.
Judge: One voice.
Nel: One voice.
Judge: Thank you. Thank you.
EVDM(I): My lady, I just heard a woman’s voice.
Nel: Yes. Yes (inaudible).
and later:
EVDM(I): This person was talking, stopping, talking again. It wasn't continuously. To me, from where I was sleeping, my lady, it seemed like two people were involved in an argument, but I couldn't hear the other person's voice.
and later still:
Roux: Or, let me put it to you again, take you back, all you heard was a, I'm reading it again, (reads Afrikaans), now translated, that was, you heard a woman's voice, you could not hear the words or the language spoken, and it was "far from your house". That is what you heard.
VDMI: Yes, that's what I said, but I must say that I know a woman's voice, and there's many movements between a woman's voice, especially when we become angry, or cross my lady.
Roux: But here it's far away, you can't hear words, you can't hear language.
VDMI: To tell the honest truth, my lady, I do not know from which direction those sounds were coming from because [our time at home is to... to fall asleep].
Etc.
IDK but to date can't think of many possibilities which explain credibly, for me at least, EVDM not hearing OP's voice as the other party to the female voice she heard in this supposed "argument" when several neighbours heard him quite easily later, so I am stuck on 4 options:
➊ She heard someone or something else (she had no idea where the voice came from)
➋ She heard two "female" voices one of them OP's ! ;-)
➌ She heard Reeva arguing on the phone (I don't think it possible since the call would I presume had to have logged on her incoming call list)
➍ She heard a soliloquy. e.g. Reeva, unable to sleep, nervous about the speech she was to give the next morning, went downstairs to practice. Now iirc the speech was about women in abusive relationships, all very emotive stuff and depending on the speaker could easily sound like a one sided argument which is not that surprising since that is basically what a speech is, a one sided argument. And if she were downstairs on the other side of OP's 580 sq m2 house he wouldn't hear her asleep or otherwise, (at least in the 200 sq m2 I am we can't hear anyone on the other side of the house downstairs even when we are awake). Further on a hot night talking doesn't need to be that "loud" to travel over open spaces in a direct line, and EVDM never said the voice she heard was loud and she thought that was a female too and it was only her husband said it was OP when at that time he had no way of knowing that it was.
Or what explanation have others come up with for EVDM not hearing OP's voice? Unless there is a credible explanation how will Masipa find an argument between OP/RS with just one voice? And I can't see her speculating too much around what it could be either so my soliloquy is really just for my fantasy and Masipa may not even make a finding on it and leave EVDM's one sided argument as an unsolvable. JMHO
