Pistorius

Poor old Oscar is just plain unpopular with other South Africans. Tall poppy syndrome? What sentences do others who shoot intruders get? Many get off Scott free. Its a really messy case.
I am quite shocked by that remark.

The case is not messy if one weighs up the evidence. He was not found guilty because of 'Tall Poppy Syndrome'. Every single fact and piece of evidence has been carefully analysed by two judges, the second one found faults in the first judgement. He has not been judged by the SA public but in a court of law then a court of appeal.

I'm just very thankful I don't live in SA.
DH's elderly aunt was beaten up and raped in her house by an intruder, she was trying to get to the 'safe room'.
She was 89 and died within 6 months.

Firing multiple shots through a door isn't exactly self defence imo; he must have known that he was shooting to kill. If he really thought it was an intruder wouldn't he have yelled at Reena to call the police, and realised she wasn't in the bed?
Surely the bed wasn't so big he didn't know she wasn't in it?
As guilty as hell so far as our SA friends are concerned, but he thought he could get away with manslaughter or less because he has money. Our friends said corruption is rife, and money helps.

Sorry you don't like what I posted Rosequartz. Its what I really think. SA is a scary place to live. Guns, steroids, fear and adrenalin fuelled reactions are understandable but not of, of course, what you or I would do. Its just not like over here. Various SA relatives can quite understand what happened that awful night.

I've never been Jane10 and understand that you know more about the climate of fear over there.
Just saying that the appeal judge seemed to be very meticulous and wondering if the first judge was perhaps intimidated by the tv cameras being there and also there still seems to be a 'rich white, poor black' mentality from what we see in the media. That may not be true, however.

A terrrible waste of lives, his life, his girlsfriends life, her parents and family, his parents and family, no doubt he wishes that he could turn back the clock and handle his problems differently because alas, NO ONE is entitled to take anothers life without bearing the consequences. SUCH A WASTE, we do not pass through this life for shear fun, we must be responsible for the wrongs we do to others.
A tooth for a tooth, and eye for an eye, there should no exception.

Ladybird really? An eye for an eye? Even Shakespeare all those hundreds of years ago wrote about the ' quality of mercy'. This is 2015. Surely we have moved beyond such old testament thinking. I still think manslaughter is a more appropriate charge but the jail sentence was a bit too short. He above all of them knows he's done a terrible thing. He has a miserable life ahead of him. If you're still of an eye for an eye mentality them how about Vengeance is mine saeth the Lord!?

I didn't realise the bathroom door was locked? I reckon they must have had a row, in that case, and she was keeping out of his way.

I so disagree with an eye for an eye , doesn't allow for so many things, think of the people hanged in this country who should not have been sent to the gallows