The trial has just begun of Oscar Pistorius for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but, virtually alone amongst the many commentators and broadcasters covering this huge media circus, I am willing to predict to ATW readers right now the outcome of this hugely-expensive circus.
He will be found ‘Not Guilty’ despite being almost blatantly guilty of this murder, based upon one thing, and one thing only. Not the colour of his skin, not for the language of his birth as well as his culture; no, he will be exonerated of all charges because he is a Sportsman. He may be white, he may speak Afrikaans as well as English, he may well be as guilty as sin, but because he is supremely good at what he has achieved in athletics, and because he has overcome the significant hazard of having no proper legs by running on carbon fibre blades.
Even if the jury has a majority of black-skinned jurors serving on it, they will return the ‘Not Guilty’ verdict because he is supremely good at running faster than any other disabled athlete, and faster than many able-bodied runners. He is a minor god in their eyes, and we all know that ‘gods’ can do no wrong!
Update:-
My Pensioner friend is right, in that the jury no longer serves; but, and it is a very big ‘but’, I doubt if even this black judge will go against the tradition in both black and white South Africa, and imprison the adored ‘Blade Runner’ for the murder of his girlfriend. As I remarked previously, ‘Gods can do no wrong’
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TV this morning said there is no jury, just a judge with two assistants.
I personally think the ‘burglary’ defence will not be accepted, but he won’t be found guilty of pre-meditaded murder. It will be reduced to a manslaughter type charge ,a ‘moment of passion’ acceptance that he knew she was in the bathroom but did not mean to kill her which will result in a lenient sentence.
Owning a gun didn’t make him safe, and it sure didn’t help her too much.
Paddy Power, you gotta love em.
http://blog.paddypower.com/2014/03/02/oscar-pistorius-murder-trial-money-back-if-he-walks/
I’ll go out on a limb and say he’ll be convicted.
I was going to make a joke about how if he’d blacked her up with shoe polish the police would have let him off.
But then I realised it was an incredibly insensitive thing to say- I mean why would Oscar Pistorius have shoe polish?
Ross – too good.
Surely he hasn’t got a leg to stand on? (I’ll get me coat)
Well, he can’t have been arrested on foot of a warrant for murder.
Ah, good old Plagiarism, you can’t beat it.
It’s a fairly sensitive subjecet so I suppose we’ll have to tread lightly and watch our step.
The police are probably more than happy that he gave himself up and didn’t have to chase him.