Oscar Pistorius, das Model, der Valentinstag und das war dann Notwehr

Nel was revived when Pistorius took the stand. Warming to his task he badgered Pistorius, asking him to repeat his story, questioning his assertion that he wanted to protect Reeva Steenkamp, but not bothering to check if she was safe before firing at a closed door. Finally he asked an exasperated Pistorius to explain how he could have retrieved the 9-millimeter pistol, used in the shooting, from under Steenkamp’s side of the bed without noticing she was gone.

Performing for the packed gallery he opened by saying, "What we can’t forget is the applicant is charged with murdering a defenceless, innocent woman."



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He takes his responsibility as a victims' advocate seriously. A glimpse of his tenacity, and his dark sense of humour, came on the second day of Pistorius’s bail hearing in February last year. After bungling former detective, Hilton Botha, left the witness box after laying out a litany of mistakes in the gathering of evidence, Nel’s head dropped. As Botha left Nel muttered to one of his junior prosecutors, "There goes our case walking out the door."

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