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Lies, damned lies, statistics... and a bizarre judgement in which Oscar Pistorius is allowed to walk from the court - innocent of murder charges against him for shooting multiple bullets into his partner Reeva Steenkamp. Instead he faces sentencing for the lesser, disparaged charge of culpable homicide and for which he may well avoid incarceration altogether. In South Africa, three women are killed by their partners every day - merely a grim statistic - and most of these men are never punished. And so for Judge Thokozile Masipa to let Pistorius off the hook by rationalising his deadly actions - by disparaging the alarmingly private comments from the victim herself about how frightened she was of her partner during the days and weeks leading up to her untimely death - as being normal dynamics of a relationship is bizarre to say the least. theguardian/world/2014/sep/13/oscar-pistorius-reeva-steenkamp-book
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 11:57:44 +0000

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