Category: Oscar Pistorius Trial

Click link below to read full Defense Heads of Argument document for State Appeal

 Oscar Pistorius Defense HOA for Appeal

What were Oscar’s intentions?  Read FUGITIVE available on Amazon.

FUGITIVE will be followed up by THE APPEAL to be released later this year.

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5 STAR REVIEW

By Rumblebuffin on September 3, 2015

“I thought I was buying a book about Oscar Pistorius, but it was so much more than that”

I bought “Fugitive” on the day Nick and Lisa released it. I read it in one sitting.

The title “Fugitive” is appropriate in so many ways. The ideas in this worthy tome have been spelunking through my neuro-transmitters/synaptic vesicles ever since that sleep-deprived night.

I settled down to read it, assuming it would just be about Oscar being a fugitive from justice. Yes, he is. He is and always has been a fugitive on so many levels. So are his family, remaining friends and supporters.

But we are ALL fugitives in the compelling story of Oscar Pistorius. Fugitives from unpalatable realities, preferring the comfort blanket of preconception. (I will not develop this point as it would deaden the poignancy for future readers).

No-one is exempt. Not even Reeva.

Since reading “Fugitive” I have applied the ideas in this book to other events. Today, UK papers published a picture of a dead three-year-old Syrian refugee washed up on a beach. Until now, I would argue that most EU citizens have been blissfully unaware of/anaesthetised from the reality facing these refugees. Spewing platitudes about migrants. It took this picture to jolt them. I hope.

Some will remain unmoved. Are they fugitives? Yes, they are. It is too exhausting/distressing to feel the full force of horror. It is far easier to cling on to what they thought before.

Read this book! Or would you be happier in your comfort zone?”

On September 18, the parole board will consider whether or not Oscar Pistorius should be released from prison under correctional supervision.

When does a prisoner in South Africa qualify to be considered for release (either under pardon or correctional supervision)?

In principle legislation makes provision that all sentenced offenders qualify to be considered for possible parole placement after they have served a specified minimum period of detention. This is an automatic process which occurs once you have served the prescribed minimum detention period.

According to the official DCS manual, Oscar was indeed considered too soon (around the 6 month mark).  He should have only been considered for release once he completed 1/6 of his sentence (10 months) which was on August 21st.  Long story short, the justice minister was right to hold Oscar in prison and schedule a hearing for his case to be re-considered.  It wasn’t right because the women’s league requested the minister do so; it was right because the law was not properly followed.

It’s important for us to remember, being considered doesn’t automatically mean a prisoner is entitled to release.  Release is something that’s awarded when a prisoner has earned it.  Has Oscar earned it?  It’s hard for any one of us to say.  As much as many of us dislike the convict, we haven’t been in prison with him and therefore can only speculate. Regardless of whether or not we believe Oscar received the correct verdict and subsequent sentence, prisoners do have a right to be handled appropriately, not with prejudice, according to the law.

What do I think will happen, and what should happen?  I previously hypothesized Oscar would be released on September 18th immediately after the hearing because Oscar’s been handled with kid gloves seemingly from the start.  However, I’ve recently had a change of heart.  It’s been brought to the public’s attention Oscar’s cell was raided back in May.

I find it interesting that raid was suppressed from the public until now; now that the justice system is under massive scrutiny not only for Judge Masipa’s questionable verdict but also because the parole board glaringly gave Oscar special consideration. Of course, it makes you wonder what else is going on in that prison.  We don’t know the full results of that raid, but one thing certainly stands out and that is Oscar having access to a (computer) hard drive in his cell.  Also, the speculation he had access to cell phones.

In light of one embarrassment after the next, I think the parole board will be cautious with Oscar’ decision.  I think to be conservative, they will keep him in prison for now.  To answer the question about what they should do – I believe they should keep him, at a minimum, until the hearing for the State’s appeal.  With the possibility that Oscar could be facing a much longer jail sentence if the appeal is successful [lets hope it is], I can’t imagine why there’d be a rush to let him out two months prior to those proceedings.

I want to hear from you.  What do you think will and should happen?

For more insight into the psychology of Oscar and what lies next for him, read FUGITIVE available on Amazon.  It’s a narrative that’s shocking many readers with its perceptiveness and poignancy.

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From the chapter A Prisoner in Your Own Skin

Oscar Pistorius is a product of the modern era.  He did not form a strong identity ever [I mean an authentic identity] and as such, found himself consistently having to defend and reconstitute his persona.  At his zenith, at the London Olympics, Oscar was already a broken man, undone by a much richer, much older rival outbidding and out buying his beloved.  Oscar didn’t want Samantha Taylor at the Olympics as much as she wanted to be there, because he wanted the freedom to play, to play the playboy.  When he got to London he found himself in a cacophony of loneliness, a maelstrom of manipulating the media and pretending to be someone else.  There was no intimacy, there was no genuine love.  His love was in Dubai, and Oscar was lost.

Oscar’s version of the masculine man is the opposite of an alien from Krypton, who also desperately wanted to fit in.  Kal-El, aka Clark Kent, created a persona, a bumbling, bespectacled, mind-mannered reporter, because that was the Kryptonian’s take on the human condition.  Frail, flawed, weak and nerdy.  Oscar’s take was…

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REVIEW

by GH2006, August 23, 2015 – 5 Stars – “Another excellent book by Lisa Wilson and Nick van der Leek”

“Another excellent book by Lisa Wilson and Nick van der Leek. This book uncovers the background and psychology of Oscar Pistorius, well-researched and insightful. Peppered with personal anecdotes of what is it like growing up in South Africa and living there today. This book gives the much needed back drop of life, sports, and politics in South Africa which has produced a murder trial full of so many twists and turns. A must read for anyone who is interested in the murder case of Reeva Steenkamp.”

Tomorrow, Sunday, August 23, Nick and I will be on Blog Talk Radio with Liz Houle

Liz hosts the “True Crimes” show out of New York

We’ll be talking about our new book Fugitive, and all of the latest developments with Oscar.

10am PST / 1pm EST / 7pm South Africa

Call in to speak with the host and authors:  +1 (516) 531-9621

LISTEN HERE:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/truecrimes/2015/08/23/fugitive–oscar-pistorius-book-by-nick-van-der-leek-and-lisa-wilson

FUGITIVE is available on Amazon

From the chapter Intentionality:

The context of this question around INTENTIONALITY comes from Another Oscar we unexpectedly met in the North Guateng High Court.  This Oscar was a lot different to the Blade Runner.  So who’s who?  Is Oscar a vulnerable cry baby who screams like a girl?

At the end of the day, is his story 100% true that he innocently woke up and mistook an opening window and the movement of wood for a burglar. Is his schpiel credible, that the sound of a window and wood moving behind a closed and locked door made the Blade Runner shit himself to the extent that he helplessly shot 4 bullets into the pitch dark? Did he really fire those shots whilst not hesitating a moment to find out where Reeva is, not knowing where she was or how she was – in what state she was?  Really?  He didn’t know?  Because he wasn’t in control…he wasn’t certain…he was anxious, and afraid, tentative and unclear, right?

That’s Another Oscar and this chapter is an interrogation into that schema.  Is it credible, or is it just a schpiel?

14. Intentionality and a ‘withdrawal of the offer’ [2007-2008]

Although the IAAF invited Oscar to strut his stuff in 2007, technically, in March 2007, the IAAF issued a ban for athletes using prosthetic limbs [‘using technical aids’] from competing alongside able-bodied athletes. If you want a test of Oscar’s determination, his tenacity, his intensity, his ambition and yes, his intentionality, look what he does when….

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The narrative will continue with THE APPEAL coming out in November.

MEDIA RELEASE ON OSCAR PISTORIUS – PAROLE SUSPENDED

click link below to read:

Media Release on Oscar Pistorius 19 August 2015

OTHER NEWS LINKS:

The Guardian

CNN

BBC

News24

Today Show, Jeff Rossen

Sky News

USA Today

eNCA

Independent UK

Los Angeles Times

Mirror UK

Click on the link below to read the full State’s Heads of Argument

Submitted August 17, 2015

 States Appeal Document Oscar Pistorius 2015

Did Oscar get away with it?

What were Oscar’s intentions?

Did the Court incorrectly apply the principles of dolus eventualis?

Available on Amazon this week… FUGITIVE

That Reeva screamed as loudly as she did and that this still wasn’t able to save her, even after death, is deeply unsettling isn’t it? Those screams have been silenced. Despite several witnesses coming forward, two at some risk to their own needs for privacy, despite these witnesses testifying to the same ‘bloodcurdling’ screams, the Judge decided to dismiss their seemingly inconsistent evidence. The Judge – a woman – also silenced those screams. Some of Oscar’s nearest neighbours claimed never to have heard a woman screaming in the first place. Oscar’s gardener, who lived on the premises, disappeared and apparently hasn’t been seen since. Did he hear anything? Would he tell anyone if he had?

In the seconds immediately following four deafening blasts, as her final shriek swam into the night and floated towards the concerned face of Dr Michelle Burger, Reeva must have felt a sense of drowning. Drowning in a toilet, dying in a man’s house, losing her precious blood and her precious life over cool, hard unfeeling bathroom tiles, Reeva was forced to leave a precious world just as she was starting to really enjoy it… It is in her excruciating desire to live that Lisa and I have found her voice, and in a sense, our own.

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