By Bimbola Segun-Amao
Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp on 14 February 2013. They had dated from November 2012. She was a South African model, paralegal, and reality television star.
The trial has been a long one which I did not find amusing; from horrible graphical representations to Oscar shedding tears like a fountain and the puking; the trial was like a worm crawling under my skin; it left me restless and uncomfortable. I stopped following after a while. Once, I brought it up in the office and a colleague hinted she won’t be surprised if he is not found guilty and reminded me of the famous O. J Simpson Murder case. I argued “Nicole was not found dead in Simpson’s house, Reeva was shot by Oscar, in Oscar’s house”…my temperature was rising again, I had to forgo that conversation, but the bile of the possibility of Oscar not found guilty stayed with me.
Well, today, Oscar has been found not guilty of intentionally killing Reeva. I’m perplexed, angry, but the verdict won’t change. He has lesser charges though and his fate is still hanging but not for murder.
How can a man fire four shots into a closed bathroom door before remembering he had a guest over-night? Not even a guest per se; your girlfriend, she was meant to be in bed with you, right? Forgive me if I’m wrong but this is what I imagine happened. Reeva Rebecca Steenkamp was being abused in that relationship, either emotionally or physically. That night, something happened and she hid in the bathroom, and Oscar couldn’t get her to come out. He resorted to gun her down in there in rage.
Why do I think so? No sane man sleeps with a girl in his room, wakes up not to find her beside him, hears movement in the bathroom and not consider that the babe is the one in there. It can’t be an intruder when your girlfriend is not on the bed beside you, your first logical thought is that she’s the one in the bathroom.
I’m so angry, not because Oscar is not found guilty but because Reeva is dead and gone.
Stay away from thrash in the name of love….some partners are toxic, if they don’t shoot you with a gun, they stab life out of your heart. You’re dead both ways.
You may want to read this too https://edition.cnn.com/2014/09/11/world/africa/oscar-pistorius-verdict/
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