Reply to: Oscar's Sentence

[ZARDOZ]

You wake in the middle of the night and hear someone in the bathroom. Your wife/gf who you went to bed with is not there. Must be an intruder in the bathroom, best shoot some bullets throught the door.

With all the other inconsistencies in the story it was obvioulsy a pack of lies and 5 years/possibly 10 months is an utter joke. Nothing to do with justice and everything to do with having an expensive legal team. Let's face it a poor man would be going down for 20 yrs.

He took the life of someone in their prime. if he had held up a bank he would get a longer sentence.

..expecting DA to pipe up with his "you're a sanctimonious leftly" claims now.

[stek]

DOH! I thought we'd be discussing Oscar Wilde's sentence.

Two years in Reading Jail seemed a bit harsh, but it's a bit late to complain about it now.

Pain in the arse for his cellmate too....

[OwlHoot]

Gaol or community service?

Personally I find the way he is being portrayed as the victim, offensive.

Hang the murdering bastard!

DOH! I thought we'd be discussing Oscar Wilde's sentence.

Two years in Reading Jail seemed a bit harsh, but it's a bit late to complain about it now.

[Scruff]

Don't start trying to ruin the CUK opinion based 'facts'.

OK - I agree with Sue-Ellen, then. See what an agreeable bloke I am, now?

[MaryPoppins]

I am sorry, but I disagree with this type of wholesale judgement. I have spent 38 years living there, full time and I still spend at least a month there, per year. I have never come across an incident of domestic violence which has been tolerated, by the authorities, or by society.

The fact that there are higher numbers of violent cases of abuse, is more of a social issue and a reflection of the break down of the mores of society.

Don't start trying to ruin the CUK opinion based 'facts'.

[Scruff]

Domestic violence isn't taken seriously in South Africa whether the perpetrator is Black or White.

I am sorry, but I disagree with this type of wholesale judgement. I have spent 38 years living there, full time and I still spend at least a month there, per year. I have never come across an incident of domestic violence which has been tolerated, by the authorities, or by society.

The fact that there are higher numbers of violent cases of abuse, is more of a social issue and a reflection of the break down of the mores of society.

[vetran]

Gaol? How old are you??

Old enough to read Oscar Wilde?

[Churchill]

Doesn't matter what we think, it's what can be proven.

People can have opinions.

The question wasn't "is Oscar guilty?".

Thanks though.

[mudskipper]

So, do you think Oscar intentionally shot his girlfriend?

Doesn't matter what we think, it's what can be proven.

[Churchill]

Domestic violence isn't taken seriously in South Africa whether the perpetrator is Black or White.

So, do you think Oscar intentionally shot his girlfriend?

[Freaki Li Cuatre]

Well I think he's lucky as **** not to have got done for murder.

But, if we accept (as the judge has) that he did not know Reeva was behind the door, and thought it was an intruder, his actions were probably no different to many other scared white South Africans.

If it had been an intruder that he'd shot, he wouldn't even be in court.

So given what he was found guilty of, I'm not convinced he'll get a gaol sentence.

Gaol? How old are you??

[SueEllen]

Some would argue that a legal precedent of being able to shoot your partner while they were in a locked room, and then claim that you didn't know it was them and didn't mean to kill them when you shot at them in an enclosed space and get away with less than a year in jail would be dangerous.

Domestic violence isn't taken seriously in South Africa whether the perpetrator is Black or White.

[SueEllen]

Seemingly, the world's media and lots of people on CUK. I think you meant "I don't give a..." but then you cared enough to post about it so you care strongly about not caring apparently?

Sorry I should have phrased that correctly. I don't care if he starves and has to live with a relation whilst under house arrest.

[d000hg]

Who gives a f*** what happens to him.

Seemingly, the world's media and lots of people on CUK. I think you meant "I don't give a..." but then you cared enough to post about it so you care strongly about not caring apparently?

[TheFaQQer]

Who gives a f*** what happens to him.

Some would argue that a legal precedent of being able to shoot your partner while they were in a locked room, and then claim that you didn't know it was them and didn't mean to kill them when you shot at them in an enclosed space and get away with less than a year in jail would be dangerous.