Poor Oscar, one could almost weep.
Oscar Pistorius told a friend he was “terrified” of returning to prison days before he was convicted of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
The news came as prosecutors in South Africa issued an arrest warrant for teh 29-year-old after his conviction of culpable homicide – similar to manslaughter – was changed to that of murder.
Pistorius told his friend Kevin Lerena: “I don’t want to go back to jail. It’s a terrible place, so disgusting you can’t imagine”, the Daily Mail reports.
Well… There is an old saying about can’t do the time…
Pistorius could have avoided all this nastiness and simply not loosed off a weapon. Simple really. The man is clearly unfit to be in charge of one. You never, never discharge a weapon without knowing who or what is at the business end. And if you do, you shoot to kill. You only do that if you have a bloody good reason to do so. As the judge pointed out, his excuse that he didn’t know who was the other side of the door is irrelevant. Loosing off four rounds was guaranteed to kill whoever it was and as they were the other side of the door, he was in no immediate danger. That’s murder. So of to gaol it is.
My sympathy for his discomfort is balanced against my sympathy for his victim, whose only crime was to date a nasty little arsehole with delusions of grandeur. Tough shit, frankly. Don’t go around shooting people and you won’t get sent down to the nasty old gaol.
In the unlikely event that an intruder in South Africa had not already shot you and the missus or (improbably) decided to run away, but instead was locked in the toilet, if I had a weapon I’d empty the magazine through the door, having satisfied myself that MrsBud was safe beside me. I’d do this because it would be unlikely that the scumbag in the bog didn’t have an AK47. And I would not expect to be convicted of murder as a result because those of us who have lived in that (wonderful) country know that life is cheap to those who break into homes. But as I’ve implied, the scenario is improbable, Pistorious knew it was Reeva Steenkamp in the toilet and therefore is guilty of murder. He deserves everything he gets, utter bastard.