boo hiss to Virgin (shudda got sky    Totsiens fellow Jurors 

Well! What a day in court! 

I think it wasn't the best representation of OP that the defence could have made so far. I get the impression that they are trying to plant all sort of thoughts about how bad a life he has had and how badly affected he was by the boating accident and I think he said he hadn't drunk but later admitted he had had one drink. Boo hoo.  Also I suspect that all those those descriptions of crimes he was present at/was involved with/made him paranoid will come back to bite him when Nel gets stuck in. I know SA if a dangerous place but OP seems to have been a real crime magnet in his life! 

Also. The dogs! The placid watchdogs of pit bull breeding. 'I pit it to you...'   What a lot of crap... none of the prosecution witnesses talked about dogs. Surely even if the dogs were sleeping when 'the intruder' came in they would have woken up and heard the shooting and screaming and any neighbours would have heard them barking even if there was no intruder! 

And that concludes my evidence for tonight. 

I watch it and it pissed me off when they made him the victim, then they  decided it was best to conclude for the day as the poor wee mite was exhausted.

I have only been following it via reading the news ....but I did hear his * heartfelt*  apology to her family .....sorry, but it made me want to reach for the sick bucket 

the only thing the defence can do is try and get the judge to believe he acted out of paranoia and perceived a real threat to his life - therefore he didn't pre-meditate murder on Reeva.  How successful Roux will be is anyone's guess - tough hill to climb but in South Africa land, not impossible 

I'd have probably believed it more if he hadn't managed to 'adjust' his voice from quivering wreck to sounding normal in the space of 60 seconds 

Well even the from the little bit I heard it sounded very insincere Pengy .... 

ah...those placid dogs he was referring to Xochi 

Pistorius has dogs, too - Enzo, a black-and-white bull terrier and Silo, a light-brown American pit bull. He explains Silo was a rescue dog, who was locked in a room only two metres by three metres until she was three-and-a-half months old. She had a broken back and is still nervous, even after Pistorius’s care and attention.

Enzo, however, is just mad. As he jumps around outside by the pool Pistorius elects to tell me: ‘The last journalist who came here, he ripped their toe nail off. There was blood everywhere.’ Somehow I don’t think he’s joking.

full interview here 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/spo...e.html#ixzz2yCmRQK7Y

To be frank I cringed at the self promotion.., obviously he was coached, all witnesses are. I truly think they went overboard, I was expecting to whip off his shirt and have a superman suit underneath. He certainly got into his stride whilst he was bigging himself up, I truly think the tears are more for himself than Reeva. I don't doubt for one minute he doesn't have nightmare and regrets every single minute and he had a appalling start in life..I still don't know if he meant to kill her or what he thought was an intruder. What I do see is a very narcissistic man 

last tweet of the day from Alex Crawford 

I think I might be needing Oscar's bucket 

all this played out in front of Reeva's mum 

Oh no, really? Thought she'd gone home. It must be unimaginably painful for Reeva's family to watch  

she was sitting in the near the front when he apologized to her and her family...I don;t think her expression changed Rosie 

No it didn't, although didn't she say in the past that she had forgiven him?

I've read that too Col, I don't know if its true...but there was no evidence of forgiveness from her today. I think after the case we'll know her true thoughts 

"One has to forgive but never forget".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/new...ll-never-forget.html

thanks Erin... noticeably she says  "One has to forgive but never forget", but doesn't say she has, it must be very difficult to reach that point, I'm more than sure I never would, 

I agree, she looked very much how I would feel if it was my child.

*EC looks at his watch and asks*

"how much longer is this going on for?"

2019 

 Say whaaaaat !!!

defence allegedly is calling 17 witnesses  so that date looks about right 

they don't have long days in the South African courts EC, plus many tea breaks and long lunches 

Yeah... why is that? 

SA siestas  their version of just now means any time between now and next year - you can't hurry a SA  they may do things now-now which means quite soon - life is slow paced in SA 

 every tear gets an adjournment.

Oh, thanks. 

Goeie dag fellow Jurors 

 Morning Pengy.

I was surprised to learn the first defence witness yesterday was not the original defence pathologist. 

Roux didn't call him, he called the guy who had based his findings on photographs, so the defence did not have to produce their pathologists written report in court. *I pit it tu yu* Roux didn't like the findings  

exactly 

Judging by what he's saying they weren't in a relationship long enough for them to buy a house 'together' as he specified yesterday   I'm wondering if she was having doubts?  With his training and her work, I doubt she saw much of him 

FFS we're 10 minutes in and he's asking for an adjournment 

I found that remark yesterday totally unbelievable, he put the deposit down on the house in December after he had been going out with her for approximately a month. 

It was evident that she was unhappy with some of his actions by the long text, rightly or wrongly she seemed to think he wasn't happy with some of the things she said/done. 

I fear a short day ahead 

hmmm could be an interesting time when Gerrie gets hold of him but I think Roux will prolong these conversations for as long as possible as I think he knows OP is stuffed 

why would he be worried about her health while insinuating her being a stripper and a hoe?  and what was with the rabbit carving?  Is it something he bought for all his girlies cos it sounds like he had a few 

I reel Nel might have something up his sleeve.. he brought stuff into evidence that he glossed over, but its still there if he wants to use it in OP's cross 

The rabbit thing still isn't that clear, to me anyway...seems he did have plenty of girlfriends