Interesting how people are willing to jump to the defence of someone they don't know, just because he is an athlete. It doesn't mean he isn't capable of being an utter c*nt, who might have beat his girlfriend up and finally murdered her.Shouldnt really speculate either way. However if he is guilty, fuck him, lock him up and throw away the key.
Jesus, some people really are jumping the gun here (no pun intended)What happened to innocent until proven guilty, the Media doesn't really help either, News are more rumours and speculation than facts, fucking bollocks!
Cry more you big fanny
Steady...Mike Bassett
We made it back to his house, which is built in a Mediterranean style inside a gated, hillside community. His three dogs greeted us. The house is expansive, with a dining room big enough to fit a table that seats 16. The bookshelves in his living room contain mostly biographies — Mandela, Marley, Dylan, Beckham, Salvador Dalí, Steve Jobs — as well an account of the Bernie Madoff scandal and numerous volumes on rugby and auto racing.Pistorius lives in the house with a friend from high school, an engineer who moonlights as a mixed-martial-arts fighter. Pistorius had recently broken off a relationship with his longtime girlfriend, though another young woman was visiting when we got there. As he put together lunch for all of us — fruit smoothies, breaded chicken fillets he pulled from the refrigerator — he mentioned that a security alarm in the house had gone off the previous night, and he had grabbed his gun and tiptoed downstairs. (It turned out to be nothing.)I asked what kind of gun he owned, which he seemed to take as an indication of my broader interest in firearms. I had to tell him I didn’t own any. “But you’ve shot one, right?” Actually, I hadn’t. Suddenly, I felt like one of those characters in a movie who must be schooled on how to be more manly.“We should go to the range,” he said. He fetched his 9-millimeter handgun and two boxes of ammunition. We got back in the car and drove to a nearby firing range, where he instructed me on proper technique. Pistorius was a good coach. A couple of my shots got close to the bull’s-eye, which delighted him. “Maybe you should do this more,” he said. “If you practiced, I think you could be pretty deadly.” I asked him how often he came to the range. “Just sometimes when I can’t sleep,” he said. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/magazine/oscar-pistorius.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
The eNews Channel Africa said it understood Pistorius had told police it was a "horrible accident" and would plead in court that he mistook Steenkamp for a burglar. Such incidents are not unknown in a country where crime is high and fear of crime even higher. In 2004, for example, the rugby player Rudi Visagie shot dead his 19-year-old daughter after he mistakenly thought she was a robber trying to steal his car in the middle of the night. But police have played down the theory in this case.After questioning on Thursday, Pistorius left a police station accompanied by officers. He looked down as photographers took pictures, the hood on his grey sweatshirt pulled up, concealing most of his face. Sources said Pistorius had requested the court hearing to take place as soon as possible. But it was postponed until Friday to give forensic investigators time to carry out their work, said Medupe Simasiku, a spokesman for the prosecution.Pistorius's father said his son was sad following the shooting. "I don't know nothing," Henke Pistorius told SABC radio news. "It will be extremely obnoxious and rude to speculate. I don't know the facts. If anyone makes a statement, it will have to be Oscar. He's sad at the moment."Pistorius' former coach Andrea Gianni said he hoped it was "just a tragic accident". He told the Associated Press in Italy: "No matter how bad the situation was, Oscar always stayed calm and positive. Whenever he was tired or nervous he was still extremely nice to people. I never saw him violent."Six months ago Pistorius – who had both his legs amputated below the knee before his first birthday because of a congenital condition – made history when he became the first double-amputee track athlete to compete in the Olympics. He was named by Time Magazine last year as one of the world's 100 most influential people. Yet his compelling story has been undercut by a personal life of tabloid fodder.In February 2009 he crashed a speed boat on South Africa's Vaal river, breaking his nose, jaw and several ribs. Witnesses said he had been drinking before the crash and officers found alcohol in the wreckage, though they acknowledged they had not conducted a blood test on Pistorius.In November last year, a newspaper claimed Pistorius "threatened to break the legs" of the friend of a man whom he believed had slept with his then girlfriend. The police became involved before the dispute was eventually resolved.His colourful love life is never far from the gossip columns. Recent media interviews with Pistorius revealed that he kept an assortment of weapons in his home. "Cricket and baseball bats lay behind the door, a pistol by his bed and a machine gun by a window," Britain's Daily Mail noted in a profile.http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/14/oscar-pistorius-murder-girlfriends-shooting
He shot her four times in the head.If it was so dark you could not recognise your blonde haired girlfriend, getting off four head shots is pretty amazing shooting.Would you be shooting a burglar in the head, a headshot is to kill?Or would you be trying to disable the burglar?Not convinced and the police don't seem to be either.
He shot her four times in the head.
See you guys saying how can this be a mistake, don't understand south africa. This is not the first time this has happened involving an athletehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/may/25/southafrica.rugbyunionThis rugby player shot his daughter dead.
Did the police treat that case as a murder and charge him with it?
Let's see if Oscar did murder the lady
Dont really understand the need for jokes a few hours after she died... Seems way more of them in this thread compared to other recent tragic events on this section.
I'm aware of this, but how on Earth does this isolated tragic accident mean that it's any more or less likely that this is also an accident?
making a c*nting mess of a list, like c*nts on a bike trying to win the Tour de France...
Beeld newspaper dedicated five full pages to the story, with its front page story, headlined "Dood agter deur [Dead behind door]", saying it understood Steenkamp was shot four times through a bathroom door.According to the paper the police and security guards were called to his house about two hours before the shooting, after neighbours heard him and Steenkamp argue.The police were called out a second time around 03:00 after neighbours heard gunshots, reported Beeld, quoting an unnamed Silver Woods estate residenthttp://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Steenkamp-shot-through-bathroom-door-20130215
Things are looking worse with every news report. It sad that this girl had to lose her life this way. I however don't understand how woman don't pick up that they're dating or living with a psycho or leave a relationship when the abuse starts.
GreatExI did read what he said, thanks. I know they're both athletes. So because one was an accident, the other must be also? Come off it that's ridiculous.
you just have to look at Rihanna for further evidence of that
Ahhh, so it's ATHLETES that are prone to shooting loved ones dead,
Ahhh, so it's ATHLETES that are prone to shooting loved ones dead, therefore it MUST be an accident because he's an athlete and other athletes have discharged their guns at family members before.Thanks for clearing up how this happened. Bloody athletes.I think Greatex was taking the piss?
