Breaking new (Oscar Pistorius shoots dead girlfriend)

[DMR]

Must have been quite the cricket fanatic as they found a couple of stumps too

[Flashheart]

Wonder what they'll do with her ashes?

[DMR]

Depends if he gets bail

[Foggy]

He was given not out after the appeal was reviewed

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Meanwhile, a friend of Pistorius told Beeld newspaper that the athlete nearly shot him in the foot at a Johannesburg restaurant.
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Kevin Lerena, a mutual friend of Pistorius and Steenkamp, said he had been dining with the couple and other friends when the gun went off by mistake.

"I must emphasise that the gun belonged to one of Pistorius' friends. Oscar just wanted to look at the gun, and it sort of snagged on his pants, releasing the safety catch," Lerena told Beeld. "A shot went off. I wouldn't call him negligent, it was just an accident.

"He apologised to me for days afterwards. I got a huge fright, because the bullet hit the ground just centimetres from my foot ... but it really was just a freak accident."


Read more at http://www.espn.co.uk/athletics/sport/story/193700.html#YHFBtCWC7SJgFluG.99

[Ardiles]

OP's version of events posted up on the Guardian website.  Sounds plausible, certainly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/feb/19/oscar-pistorius-bail-hearing-live-coverage

Briefly, in a statement to the court, Oscar Pistorius has set out his version of events on the night Reeva Steenkamp died.

He said they went to bed and fell asleep.

He woke to close a sliding door and get a fan and went out on to the balcony, he said.

At that point he heard a noise in the bathroom and felt a "sense of terror" rush through him.

He was scared and didn't switch on the light, he said.

He was acutely aware of violent crime and had received death threats in the past, and had been a victim of crime in the past, he said. For the that reason he kept a 9mm pistol under the bed.

He said he got his gun and moved towards the bathroom, and screamed at the "intruder" to get out of the house and for Steenkamp to call the police. He thought she was still in bed.

He did not have his prosthetic legs on, and said he felt vulnerable for both himself and Steenkamp. For that reason, he said, he fired through the bathroom door.

He then saw that Steenkamp was not in bed, he said. That was when he realised she could have been in the bathroom, he said. The bathroom door was locked.

He said he went to the balcony and called for help, and then put his legs on.

He said he opened the toilet door by smashing it with a cricket bat. Steenkamp was alive inside, slumped over, he said. He took her to the bathroom, called paramedics and tried to carry her downstairs to get help, he said.

He tried to revive her but she died in his arms, he said.

[DMR]

and screamed at the "intruder" to get out of the house and for Steenkamp to call the police.

Surely at this point she would have said "it's me, you dick"

Don't believe a word of it

[Ardiles]

Hadn't thought of that.

[jonny72]

Is he for real?

Who in their right mind would presume someone making noises in the bathroom is an intruder rather than your missus?
Why would an intruder be in the bathroom?
Wouldn't you check properly prior to getting your gun?
He got the gun from under his bed and didn't notice his missus wasn't in the bed?
Wouldn't you want to be 100% certain before firing the gun?

[fittons_coaching_badge]

That statement reminds me of the Diamandis/Holt days!

In addition to the points made by Jonny and DMR ....

'He said he went to the balcony and called for help, and then put his legs on.' ..... How did he get to the balcony without putting his legs on first?

When he got out of bed did he not see his GF wasnt there?

[Benzel]

The same cricket bat that had her blood on.

[ron dodgers]

I want to see a picture of him walking around on his stumps - where's ben when you need him?

[Jamiesfuturewife]

Surely at this point she would have said "it's me, you dick"

Don't believe a word of it

Surely at this point she would have said "it's me, you dick"

Don't believe a word of it

Surely at this point she would have said "it's me, you dick"

Don't believe a word of it

See this is the hit I find hard to believe every Fri night when I come in from the late shift as Asda and my other halfs in bed he thinks I'm a burglar - luckily he checks first before shooting me!!!?

[Simon Pieman]

Wonder if he did a 'heeeeeerrrre's Oscar'?

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[tans]

Simon you bad man, beer just spat over the carpet