If he has one, that is......

Well having watched the footage of South African cops beating up and dragging a taxi driver behind their van ..leading to his death..I have no faith in their justice.Barbaric.

Am just watching that now Katty. Tis very shocking 

I had to switch channels from Sky News, I just couldn't watch it all, so so sickening!!!!

Somethng must be badly wrong. They did this in full view and dind't care. Ppl demonstrated and nobody cares, no suspended Police No wonder the country is full of crime.

It's so shocking, I bet her family aren't holding out much hope of getting the justice they need 

Earlier it was reported that the 8 officers had been suspended. Now it is reported that all 8 have been arrested.

Whether it is just for show, because of the outcry, or whether it leads to improvements remains to be seen!

Have we all read the two Tom Sharpe books? Laugh out loud stuff!

Possibly! Give me titles and I might be a bit more certain.

He moved to South Africa in 1951,[1] where he worked as a social worker and a teacher,[1][2] before being deported for sedition in 1961.[1][3] His time in South Africa inspired the novels Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure,[1] in which he mocks the apartheid regime. Upon returning to England, he took a position as a history lecturer at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology,[1] which inspired his Wilt series[1] in which he derides popular English culture.

read 'em

very good books

so has oscar legged it then?

 

am i the first idiot to say that?

I dont know, im stumped.

He has

 

Oh dear ... hubby has found a website full of Pistorius jokes ... it's going to be a loooong weekend

I'm a good girl, I refrained from posting the jokes from FB 

 

I will say though that I think he may say he was legless at the time 

Well, well. Seems that detective Botha has now resigned from the SA Police Force.

 wonder if this will hinder the trial 

Nah, the outcome is already sorted

Dont think it will, as Botha had already been taken off the case....and he can always be called as a witness, regardless of his employment status.

Sky news reporting that Oscar Pistorius has applied for his travel restrictions to be lifted 

Oh he wants to travel - nice.

 

Who would wanna travel after killing their partner??

I would be soooo distraught i couldn't face the world - or travel anywhere

I read a headline today that said his gf had met up with her ex a couple of days before she dies and OP had interrupted them twice.    There's a programme on about it tonight somewhere I think 'What really happened' (although how the programme makers think they know is beyond me)

Lawyers for Oscar Pistorius have appealed against bail restrictions imposed after he was charged with murdering his girlfriend.

His representatives argue that the double-amputee athlete is not a flight risk and should have the option of travelling outside South Africa as long as he has official permission.

It comes as a close friend said that the athlete is a "broken man".

 

If he leaves SA  there will be no chance of him returning to face a trial..I won't be surprised if they win the appeal and he goes AWOL.

If he's suicidal and a broken man where does he intend to go?

Everything that guy says or does makes him look even more guilty of murdering his girlfriend in cold blood...IMO.

True, I mean where exactly does he want to go 

I agree. 

 

Also, as mentioned by Kaffy... is it likely he'd murder the poor girl for speaking to her ex? I suspect she found out he was blood doping - and he killed her to silence her. Bet you anything his blood tests come back positive. Or - if they are frozen they will eventually be found positive - once tests improve. 

Its poor taste for me to speculate as if it was a murder mystery though. She seemed a lovely girl and the last images of her are so sad.

I dont know about any blood tests, but I heard in the news from those who know him that he was a very jealous man and had a history of not trusting his girlfriends.

Slightly left field here . . .

Was watching CDWM and Zola Budd sed she'd NEVER heard of Nelson Mandela until she came to the UK and ran for our country!!!

Makes you wonder what type of country South Africa really is !!!

There's a program about this tonight BBC 3 at 9pm

Well, yes: I liked to think I knew something about Apartheid South Africa, but I saw the documentary "Searching for Sugar Man" recently (V. Good, BTW), and was shocked at the amount of control that was being exercised on even the white population at the time. Part of the reason Rodriguez's music became so popular was because it was banned (the authorities actually scratched out tracks of the radio station copies of his album to ensure they weren't played!)

 

As for Zola Budd, though: it's worth noting that she ran for the UK in the 1984 Olympics - the year that The Special A.K.A released "Free Nelson Mandela". It's not like she'd have been able to avoid it...

I've got the programme on at the min, and they're talking about the three times he shot her, surely even after the first shot he'd have heard a woman scream  and you would've thought he would've stopped 

 

 

wouldn't you think 

Unless the first shot was fatal 

Well, I thought I heard them say she was still alive 

Sorry, I am not watching the program. It was just a passing thought 

it's all very odd, I also surprised at all these people talking to the media, they've even been in her bedroom 

I just think the whole thing just stinks to high heaven.  When I heard today his legal team were asking for his travel restrictions to be lifted I thought "yeah they'll do it and that's the last he'll be seen in South Africa".  

 

If they do lift them, he'll disappear to a country that has no legal ties with SA, and he'll never go back there again to face what he has done.  

 

AND just to add my bit, I have no doubt in my mind that he knew exactly who he was shooting at.  I know, innocent until proven guilty and all of that, but sorry I just feel that way.

She met up with an ex that day and he said Oscar kept ringing her, I think the phone records will out the truth