Trial Discussion Thread #44 - 14.07.1-2, Day 34-35

[katydid23]

I guess a woman at the state table had an alarm go off?

 

[Forensics]

What the heck is happening?

device went off belonging to a young lady behind Nel.

 

[christee]

Huh, OP stops doodling when Nel mention the 4x400 relay and OP's anger over the 4 chosen for the relay.

 

[zwiebel]

Nel asks about OP being left out of a team and kicking chairs.

VZ: I was not there...heard about it. Met him later that day.....he was actually more disheartened and almost in tears when I saw him.

 

[minor4th]

Yesterday Nel referred van Zyl to an interview in 2013 by Talk Radio 702's David O'Sullivan with Paralympian Arnu Fourie, whom Pistorius shared a room with during the 2012 London Olympics.

Fourie told O'Sullivan he was forced to move out because Pistorius was constantly screaming in anger at people on the phone.

Van Zyl initially said he didn't know why Fourie asked to move out the room, before conceding he was made aware of the issue.

Nel returned to this again this morning. Arnu Fourie has since issued a short statement. David O' Sullivan also commented on radio.

Summary of yesterday:
http://news.iafrica.com/sa/947079.html

About Arnu Fourie:
http://www.ofm.co.za/article/148844/Arnu-Fourie-releases-statement-on-Pistorius

702 Radio with David O'Sullivan:
http://tunein.com/radio/702-Talk-Radio-927-s25727/

Original David O'Sullivan story from 2013:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...74684/Oscar-Pistorius-Not-the-boy-I-knew.html

Hmm. So was O Sullivan taking liberties in his article?

 

[zwiebel]

N: There must be drilling going on?

Judge: I hope it's only drilling.

 

[Forensics]

roadworks disrupting the court, judge wishes it was in the building so she could do something about it.

 

[katydid23]

" I was not there..."

Nel: But u heard about it...

" yes, I did."


[ so OP threw chairs around during the S African team meeting, cuz he wasn't included on the 400 relay team...and this witness did not include that in his list of anger incidents]

 

[minor4th]

Interesting to see reactions of the judge to noises in and about the building

 

[K.T]

Peet van Zyl is dissembling about not knowing he planned Taylor’s ticket.
He is also a media manager, a major part of any agents job is to handle their clients public image which is vital for elite athlete’s income, branding and sponsarship.

He would have read every unflattering article or at the very least seen a precis otherwise he's just claiming to be a very inefficient, useless agent.

Ridiculous, do they think people don’t understand how branding and agents work…

Now it’s Peet van Zyl that sent the bouquet of flowers to Pistorius, not even Pistorius.

Re wording: Suspicious for possible lying – repeated use of the word “honestly” in the context of “I honestly do not recall”, followed by uncomfortable unnatural pauses.

(In the interest of agent history who have never lied or bullied for their clients Tiger Woods – Agent Mark Steinberg: Marriage is “fine”
Alex Rodriguez – Agent Scott Boras – 13 years with contract details, never a mention over that decade on PED’s
O J Simpson – Agent Norman Pardo – Still believes OJ Simpson is ‘innocent’ of murder and theft.
Lance Armstrong, Etc. etc. etc. I could go on

 

[zwiebel]

It's roadworks. Judge: "I was hoping it was in the building so we could do something about it.'

Nel down, Roux up.

 

[zoran]

ha ha m'lady cracked a good one

 

[minor4th]

Ha. Nel opened the door to let the Twitter statement in

 

[zwiebel]

R: Just read it..

VZ: "Just to clarify, (reads Arnu's statement I linked upthread)."

And R has no further questions!

 

[zwiebel]

Roux is clarifying the time of arrival of ambulance that night, to judge.

 

[minor4th]

Was that the defense's last witness?

 

[JudgeJudi]

Van Zyl is excused.


Barry Bateman @barrybateman · 36s

#OscarTrial Roux submits to the court a CCTV photo of the ambulance arriving at Oscar’s estate.

 

[kaos]

Will there be rebuttal witnesses?

 

[liesbeth]

Hmm. So was O Sullivan taking liberties in his article?

It was a taped interview and at the time Fourie did not dispute the facts. The recording was on O'Sullivan's Mac which was stolen so he doesn't have the original anymore. O'Sullivan is a widely respected journalist and I don't think he'd take the risk to publish something like that if it wasn't true.

 

[zwiebel]

Roux is now handing over the psych reports.

Now giving 'attitudes'.???