Recent content by otyikondo

I have not been following as zealously as some, but I would say the answer is yes, though not necessarily for the "because" that you offered. I don't recall if the forensics guy said categorically that the shots, too, were fired from stumps, but he argued that the bat blows were. However, he...

Nice one. He claims not to have been on his stumps (in his bail affidavit), and we are still not 100% clear that the evidence of his being on his stumps is categorical, but your observation - assuming he WAS only on his stumps - is a fascinating one. Given the height from the floor of the...

I know we’re past the super-sleuths stage and into the gory blood-soaked rags crime-scene pictures, but: Gregory (Scotland Yard detective): Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention? Holmes (Sherlock, no less!): To the curious incident of the dog in the...

Don't fret, cityslick. I have no idea WHERE the poster's inference has come from from Myers' statement to City Press that this could conceivably have been the first time she stayed over. Parse it any way you like, he does not say any of that in anything I have read. He merely reports she...

GOOD POST. I don't think I have anything much to add to this discussion, either, at least until trial time. What I imagined might be an interesting pastime has gone downhill very rapidly. To be honest, this case doesn't have that much going for it (save lurid "celebrity sex" ingredients)...

I never thought I'd come to the aid of the Daily Mail, but no, I think in this particular instance they are more sinned against than sinning. It's OTHERS who are doing the trawling and culling. Actually events like this do remind one of the paucity of independent reporting out there, with most...

Estelle: spot the difference. 1. Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius crushed his girlfriend’s skull with a cricket bat before shooting her dead, police have told her family. Details of the post-mortem examination of South African model Reeva Steenkamp were withheld from last week’s bail...

Yes. A "spent bullet" in the words of Mr. Roux, if I recall. Confirmed by Det. Botha. A rather significant difference, I would say. :) I did point out rather earlier that were a casing to have been found in the toilet bowl the ceiling would fall in on OP's case faster than he could strap...

Lovely. Thanks for that one.

Interesting.... JSEarthlink, who is the author of the stuff above, in a comment (apparently the ONLY comment) below the Bellenews article, has also seen fit to add something under the pseudonym of MNJustice on YouTube, here, on a site put up by somebody called CreationvsAtheist, and among the...

It was not, I suspect, in CNN's reporting, as they had this to say: Pistorius said in his statement that he used the bat to break down the door in an effort to get to Steenkamp to help her. Botha agreed with the defense contention that, other than the bullet wounds, her body showed no sign...

A still small voice of sanity. Thank you. There will be plenty of time (and plenty, plenty of leaks, I'm sure of that) before the trial on this case. Riding everything on what the Mail says is not just premature, it's pointless. There'll be much better stuff coming later. :)

And my response to THAT would be that her brother Adam Steenkamp rejected the theory out of hand. Now, why did HE break ranks and not follow the party line? And where are these independent, non-Daily Mail reports? If you've got other sources, this might make some semblance of sense, but with a...

This is why it's so critical before drawing ANY conclusions on this that we know what we are talking about (terminology) with these items of clothing, and also that we have confirmation on whether they were long pants or short... To the best of my knowledge that confirmation has NOT been...

Phew! Holy Moley... For all this to pan out this geezer has to be a Bond-film master criminal and a Weapons Grade Psychopath with a razor-sharp brain. And I thought he was a runner of some sort. Who knew? Alyce, if you turn out to be right on this one, I'll definitely doff my hat. Right now...