This reminds me - how come no sex that night?! I mean, I don't want to sound wild, but they were supposed to be in the honeymoon phase,
deeply in love, hormones going crazy, and they weren't living together (so that it would be more 'normal' not to engage in such activities necessarily every night
)
This may seem irrelevant, but I see it as a further (circumstantial) evidence of a quarrel between them that night. Otherwise, I don't see them just going straight to bed and baba watching *advertiser censored* and cars, while Reeva doing yoga and watching TV/Facebook entire evening. I mean, c'mon...
Oh, yeah, and her going to bed to sleep in the SAME clothes she exercised in?! With her fresh new boyfriend. No way. Any woman would tell you that.
THANK YOU, Patagonia. Some good solid reasonable common sense also tells us that
*women expect validation that they are special on Valentine's Day. If they were not going to be together the following day, then this evening of the 13th was their lovers' celebration.
*she expected to clear the air of any lingering disagreements and express her love, maybe even telling him she loved him and wanted to work things out but he would have to knock off the jealousy and public comments because it could damage their careers.
*he was loaded on sexual performance herbs, had in addition revved up with *advertiser censored*, expected a terrific evening in bed and she ruined everything by starting a fight (his view).
*it was hot. She was most likely nude in bed (tank top being on back to front indicates haste while dressing), meaning she was most likely bugging him for makeup sex, not bugging him to show him pictures after a fight and at 3:00 in the morning.
*If he pushed her away from touching his neck when he was just a little annoyed, imagine him smacking her because she wants sex and he's exhausted and really angry with her for ruining the evening.
*She has a bloody nose and starts screaming. He slaps her to shut her up and she leaps up, crying, saying, that's it, she's calling the police, and she grabs her phone.
*He grabs the bat and threatens her, she runs from him, he chases in hot pursuit on his stumps, hitting her in the head with the cricket bat at least once, desperate to shut her up.
*She locks herself in the bedroom, he breaks the door, she is faster than he is on his stumps. She grabs her clothes, realizing she has made a big mistake and runs to the bathroom, locking herself in. She apologizes and promises she will not tell anyone...she bets him to calm down.
*He is kicking the door, but no use. He must stop that screaming so he goes for his gun.
*This is when he decides she must die or his brand is dead. He has done too much, she is bleeding and he knows at this point that she certainly will report this--she is a women's advocate-- She will ruin him.
*He starts immediately to make it look like an intruder killing by shouting "Get out of my house!" and "Reeva, call the police!" (since she might have gotten through, who knows?)
*She opens the window calling for help and he mocks her, mingling his screams with hers on the balcony.
*Then he takes his gun to the bathroom door and shoots, pausing to aim through the door, then shoots again.
*Reeva screams in mortal terror after the first shots, falls back in agony dropping her phone in the toilet, then sees him aiming again and covers her head.
*He sees through the door that her head is destroyed, so he is in no rush, calls Stander, starts arranging the room to match his story...etc. Calls NetCare but doesn't speak, so that the public will know he tried to get help for poor Reeva. Tells security everything's fine.
*Meanwhile her life is slowly slipping away and his actions after that are a combination of:
a) a sociopath trying to imitate what a feeling person might do in such circumstances, and
b) what a criminal does to cover up a crime
This is my best guess of what fits the evidence, taking into consideration the ego, oversensitivity towards any disrespect of his person or wishes, appalling lack of self-control and complete disregard for the law.
