If the forensic post-mortem was done with the same level of competence and with the body cremated I’m sure the defence can conjur up world experts to cast enough doubt on it not to count.
That leaves the angle of bullet entry through the door, which was smashed up by the guy to get in. Anyone want to bet how secure the SA branch of the Keystone Cops evidence trail on this will be? Or if it won’t become mysteriously ‘lost’?
Yea, when it comes to justice for rich, famous people in corrupt nations I’m a cynic.
Of course he identified his target. His target was the door, which I’m sure was a really scary door. And he hit it with every shot.
Can you play hackey with those blade things? In one sense it’d be easier, you don’t have the curve of the top of your foot to be worried. But if you have to bend a knee to the side to hit with the side of your foot, you might actually slice the hackey in half!
I assume, since it’s mentioned alongside not communicating with other residents of the estate, that it may be to prevent him coming into contact with potential witnesses who live in the estate. I’d imagine he probably doesn’t want to go back there anyway.
I wonder if the Prosecution’s secret weapon is urine. I don’t want to bladder on, but it seems to me that if there was tinkle in the toilet, she was in there legitimately (pants down around her ankles adds to that point). But if the body had pants pulled up and a full bladder, hiding from a crazed boyfriend seems more likely (especially given the story that he went out to the deck, closed doors, fetched gun, yelled out, etc. and the time that would allow a depressurization to occur).
He claims he saw that the window was open in the bathroom, but the door to the toilet room was shut and locked and I don’t see any other windows in the bathroom besides the toilet room window. So… say what??
Even if his story is 100% true, he’s a murderer. And an idiot.
Because the question of bail is not so much about the strength of the evidence against him, but about the likelihood that he will jump bail, interfere with witnesses or commit another crime. And because accused persons are constitutionally entitled to bail as long as it is compatible with the interests of justice.
To understand the bail issue, I recommend this article; in fact De Vos’s coverage of South African legal issues is very interesting in general.
Bail doesn’t surprise me. I am surprised that he wasn’t required to wear a tracking collar. That’s pretty standard in the US.
Any ideas why he’s barred from returning to his house? Thats a weird bail condition that I’ve never heard of before. The crime scene has been processed. They were probably in that house several days searching all the rooms.
