Oscar Pistorius to be charged with murder

[Aardvark]

Makes me sick. Community Service for Murder Life is cheap in SA, someone may get payed so Justice is done .....

[GT93]

The foolish young defendant and his family must be planning a quiet celebration. Nothing too over the top.

[Zidane]

Yet according to his defence lawyer "Poor Oscar" is the victim here.......he's lost everything.....his girlfriend and,most importantly,his sponsors ! :-&
If he does get community service hopefully it will be in West Africa treating ebola patients and not being allowed to wear protective clothing !

[GT93]

Oh Zids, where's your sympathy for track and field super stars? If American football superstars can get away with the most gruesome of double murders, why should this much maligned and misjudged young man may spend a night in jail?

After all he only wasted one victim and she died quickly. The poor fellow has already had to sell his house to pay for his lawyers.

I understand he's already in training for the next Olympics. There will be more than a couple of corporates looking to support him.

[stattointhailand]

How can they even have the balls to suggest that he could not go to prison because he is disabled ?

This IS the guy that would NOT ACCEPT the decision that he was disabled as an athlete. He said he could do anything as well as any able bodied man , but then, that was when it suited him.

[Shado]

If American football superstars can get away with the most gruesome of double murders, why should this much maligned and misjudged young man may spend a night in jail?

Simpson did beat the murder rap but he is doing time (unrelated to the murder case). Plus, there are civil judgments in favor of the victim's families amounting to more than $33 million dollars, of which he has paid little. He has been granted parole but must serve another 3 years or so before he can be released. Justice? Doubtful, but at least he's paying some of his debt owed to society.


"In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with numerous felonies, including armed robbery and kidnapping. In 2008, he was found guilty and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment, with a minimum of nine years without parole. He is serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada."

I suspect Pistorius may yet see "civil type" charges brought against him that could cause distress. It will be a while before this plays out completely.

[BobHelm]

I believe that the girlfriends parents are strapped for cash, so civil charges might be an issue. Especially as he has already claimed that he is broke so any lawyer might be reluctant to take on a case where even if won the money due would probably not be forthcoming.

It is difficult to see how justice is going to be served the way things stand at the moment.
Equally the law is the law, for all its' faults & large sums of cash buy the best defence it would seem anywhere in the world.. One law for the rich, one for the poor is a cliche but would appear to be true none the less.

[dezzer]

Oscar pistorious set to prison for 5 years.

[dezzer]

And 3 year suspended for gun crime.

[pomps]

5 year sentence but can be a minimum 8 months in prison on good behaviour then the rest on correctional supervision as per twitter postings on bbc website.

[mortiboy]

I heard 10 months and then House arrest the rest of the term!
If, in the night you heard an intruder, and knew he was hiding in the bog,
Would you just shoot through the door?Four times waist high?
Intruder maybe, but dont deserve a death sentence!
One warning shot to the bottom of the door would have been enough!
Guilty as sin! should have got 10 years no remission!
Of course, thats if he really thought it was a Intruder
His story stinks!

[FrazeeDK]

of all the terrible things going on in the world, seeing BBC and even Fox News cut to the South African court for this Pistorious sentencing was just too much...

[mortiboy]

of all the terrible things going on in the world, seeing BBC and even Fox News cut to the South African court for this Pistorious sentencing was just too much...

Seems to me, There is no good news any more!
Every day bad news.So much crap going on around the world and what we get ?
Oscar Pistrorius I guess thats the end of it now.... or not?

[GT93]

I read the headline saying 5 years and thought that's outside the lower range of possible sentences Justice GT93 would have dished out. Then I read on and see Pistorius got a wet bus ticket. At least his name has joined the likes of OJ in infamy.

I wasn't impressed with the South African justice system. Far too many resources spent on what was really a factually simple case. Over there they probably take 10 plus years to put away white collar criminals.

[Zidane]

Oscar Pistorius' lawyers say they have still to decide wether or not to appeal against the sentence but have denied reports in the media that they have asked the Koh Tao police to come over and investigate the prosecutions evidence !

10 months served in jail for killing your girlfriend in cold blood.....its disgraceful....I suppose,at least,they got the right man !

[socksy]

A media circus. Once out (in the not too distant future) after this ridiculous sentence - The book and the Film no doubt.

[GT93]

He can write the book while locked up. He might earn more from it than he would have from his normal work.

I think he'll miss the booze and his guns big time while he's in jail. From the stories we heard I think he drinks way more than the average Scot. Probably also more than an Aussie on holiday in Thailand.

[Aardvark]

That last statement was ridiculous ..... he wouldn't come close ..

[stattointhailand]

GT was probably basing his argument on the fact that he is always legless Aardy :-"

[pomps]

LOL

And when he gets out of prison and is placed under house arrest,where does the electronic tagging go