Trial Discussion Thread #20 - 14.04.08, Day 18

[Murphys_Law]

He took his vest (tank) off and put it across his legs before sleeping.

Roux wants 5 mins to show OP without legs?? Uh??

OP just fell off script ... Exposing yet another lie.
The grey vest/tshirt was found on the right side of the bed.

 

[MeeBee]

So new evidence he asked Reeva to take the fans in and close and lock the doors. Really!! So how come he originally said he brought the fans in, closed the blinds, curtains etc. He has really run into trouble now.

He says he asked her to do it before she fell asleep and she said she would. Apparently, she fell asleep before getting a chance to do it.

 

[jay-jay]

He is explaining that 'I brought her a bracelet earlier in the year' and hadn't bought her anything for Valentines but was going to get her some trinkets for it. They both 'agreed not to make a big thing about it'.

.. yeah right ... *alarm bells ringing*

Valentine's Day is known by all the DA agencies and support groups as being one of the worst times (along with Xmas and New Year) for domestic violence incidents.

If he was going to buy the trinkets for the bracelet (probably one of those Pandora type charm bracelets), then he would've done so prior to Valentine's Day. Anyone can say that they were going to buy something, the fact is that he didn't, and he didn't buy them in time for Valentine's Day. I bet you anything you like Reeva would've been upset by it .. probably not so much at first and they 'both agreed not to make a big thing of it' but then as the night went on it would've kept rearing it's ugly head again, developing into a full blow row.

 

[Gbtaketwo]

Thanks for live updates everyone .
So Reeva was doing Yoga between 8.25 and 8.55 not around 10.00pm as in statement .
Bedroom door not locked at all ?
Ate very early .
Legs right next to right hand side of bed and doors ......which is where he heard noise from
There is going to be a lot of explaining to do at cross exam .

 

[Val1]

I hoped he would make clear what upset him on that day, but he didn't. Reeva was consoling him though, so it must have been something bad, I'd have thought.

All I caught was it had something to do with his meeting with his financial advisor/s and I think it was about selling his house so he could afford the new one that he had claimed RS was going to live with him in. I could have sworn he had said the house "we" were buying.

 

[Interested Bystander]

He says he asked her to do it before she fell asleep and she said she would. Apparently, she fell asleep before getting a chance to do it.

Yes, I amended my post upthread.

 

[lisasalinger]

He took his vest (tank) off and put it across his legs before sleeping.

Roux wants 5 mins to show OP without legs?? Uh??

There was a grey t-shirt on the floor on the right side of the bed, not the left.

 

[jay-jay]

OP recalls exactly where he placed the drink Reeva made him that night, and the order of who went to the loo, where and when, and the position they laid in. That's amazing.

He can't recall what the drink was though. Still freaky recall though.

Isn't it .. it's all so obviously rehearsed (probably so much so now that he believes it himself .. <<-- that does actually happen, ime)

 

[zwiebel]

Did OP say he was very tired and Reeva kept showing him photos? The kept's important to me. Sounding irritated but not sure he said that.

They're back.

 

[BritsKate]

Had she only not fallen asleep and brought the fans in herself, then Oscar wouldn't have had to, and may have heard her get up to use the loo and may never have shot her. :banghead:

(Babas, I'm thinking I may have picked the worst time in the world to try to quit smoking. )

 

[lisasalinger]

If the legs don't fit, you must acquit.

(sorry, had to do it)

 

[zwiebel]

R apologised for 'informal dress'.

OP is walking, off camera twrds door with legs, to show height. Now taking them off to show height without.

Taking much longer that the youtube video?

 

[jay-jay]

So new evidence he asked Reeva to take the fans in and close and lock the doors. Really!! So how come he originally said he brought the fans in, closed the blinds, curtains etc. He has really run into trouble now BUT I can see he is going to say Reeva did not close the doors and he had to get up and close them.

Unbelievable .. he is really trying to insult the Judge's intelligence with all of this crap.

 

[steveml]

If the legs don't fit, you must acquit.

(sorry, had to do it)

I like that one. :giggle:

 

[zwiebel]

R asks if OP can remain in his present clothing, for the demonstrations.

R: What time did you fall asleep?

O: Just after 9pm. Between 9 and 10pm.

 

[steveml]

So new evidence he asked Reeva to take the fans in and close and lock the doors. Really!! So how come he originally said he brought the fans in, closed the blinds, curtains etc. He has really run into trouble now BUT I can see he is going to say Reeva did not close the doors and he had to get up and close them.

He's not suggested Reeva did this, he said he asked her.

 

[BritsKate]

.. yeah right ... *alarm bells ringing*

Valentine's Day is known by all the DA agencies and support groups as being one of the worst times (along with Xmas and New Year) for domestic violence incidents.

If he was going to buy the trinkets for the bracelet (probably one of those Pandora type charm bracelets), then he would've done so prior to Valentine's Day. Anyone can say that they were going to buy something, the fact is that he didn't, and he didn't buy them in time for Valentine's Day. I bet you anything you like Reeva would've been upset by it .. probably not so much at first and they 'both agreed not to make a big thing of it' but then as the night went on it would've kept rearing it's ugly head again, developing into a full blow row.

"My boyfriend really loves Valentine's Day." These were the words of Reeva Steenkamp to a shop assistant in eastern Pretoria around 3pm on February 13 – just 12 hours before she was shot and killed.

By 5am on February 14, Steenkamp was dead – allegedly at the hands of her boyfriend, Paralympian Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius.

http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-15-00-oscar-pistorius-valentines-day-of-despair

 

[04009margaret]

Reeva never went to sleep, where was that in his BH statement

 

[Interested Bystander]

So he woke extremely hot, had used the fans to draw cool air from outside, and now is going to close the doors!! What is going on.

 

[Murphys_Law]

If the legs don't fit, you must acquit.

(sorry, had to do it)

Roux needed a little drama to distract and recover from the OP latest error ... Ie the grey shirt .