Two unbiased authors have revisited bombshell allegations that Oscar Pistorius knowingly shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp within the early hours of 14 February 2013.
Barry Bateman and Calvin Mollett shared their opinions within the remaining instalment of the hard-hitting M-Net documentary My Name Is Reeva on Thursday night time.
Did Oscar Pistorius text his ex-girlfriend?
In their interviews, each Bateman and Mollet shot down Oscar Pistorius’s model of occasions made in his sworn testimony throughout his high-profile homicide trial between 2014 to 2015.
According to Bateman – who co-authored the guide Behind The Door – the six-time Paralympian had been allegedly speaking with an ex-girlfriend moments earlier than pulling the set off on his girlfriend.
Mollett – who wrote the guide Oscar vs The Truth – alleges that there was a violent altercation between the pair, which culminated in Reeva being shot and killed.
Pistorius maintains he mistook Reeva for an armed burglar in his Pretoria residence. He is at the moment serving a 13-year-and-five-month homicide sentence at a Gqeberha jail within the Eastern Cape.
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OSCAR PISTORIUS TEXTS TO EX ‘BABYSHOES’
Barry Bateman beforehand alleged in his guide that Pistorius had made a nine-minute cellphone name to an ex-girlfriend – Jenna Edkins – shortly earlier than killing Reeva Steenkamp.
Bateman claims that Pistorius saved Edkins’s quantity on his cellphone as “Babyshoes”. He additionally alleges that Pistorius was courting Reeva, whereas he was truly nonetheless seeing Edkins and one other girl
According to Bateman’s account within the documentary, the decision log was by no means used as proof within the trial. According to The Mirror, this data was additionally not questioned by investigating officers. Edkins was requested to supply an official assertion.
Bateman additionally insinuates within the documentary that Pistorius and Edkins presumably texted one another earlier than an alleged argument with Reeva.
He stated: “It might well have been that Edkins was messaging Oscar that night, but unfortunately that evidence has been deleted”.
Mollet claims within the documentary that he believes an argument – throughout which Pistorius tore a vest off Reeva’s again – led to the latter locking herself of their bathroom.
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DID BROTHER CARL CONCEAL EVIDENCE?
According to Bateman, Oscar Pistorius’s brother Carl was allegedly concerned with the “tampering of evidence”. The writer claims that the older sibling eliminated Pistorius’s personal cellphone from the crime scene
He stated: “Oscar had two devices. He had a device for work calls and private calls. The device that was seized from the scene, was his work phone. It emerged that his private phone was removed from the crime scene, and was ultimately found to be removed by his brother Carl.
“Not just removed, but tampered with as well. That phone was taken and synchronised with a laptop…and the username that was used was ‘Titanium Hulk’, that happens to be the nickname that Carl Pistorius goes by”.
Bateman continued: “When that cellphone was synchonrised, important components of it was deleted. Call historical past, messages… messages despatched after the capturing whereas Oscar was truly in jail.
“It was only handed to the police 12 days after the fact. But because there had been this tampering and re-synchonrisation, the police didn’t have access to it.”
Watch: Episode 3 of ‘My Name is Reeva’
According to Bateman, police had “every intention of prosecuting” Carl Pistorius for “defeating the ends of justice” for tampering with “potentially crucial evidence”.
“But it was never presented in court, he was never arrested and the public never heard about it,” he added.
Bateman claims there was an settlement between the state and the defence that the previous wouldn’t act on Carl’s involvement. This was reportedly in alternate for the “defence making certain admissions to the court” primarily based on “other cellphones that were seized”.
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WHO IS JENNA EDKINS?
According to posts on her official Twitter account, Jenna — a banker — dated Pistorius for 5 years. The pair reportedly broke up years earlier than the Paralympian began courting Reeva in November 2012.
Jenna was current throughout Pistorius’s homicide trial and sat amongst household and pals.
She additionally defended him in a collection of tweets posted the day after Reeva’s homicide came about. Take a glance:
“People must stop jumping on the bandwagon with such hurtful allegations. Os [Oscar Pistorius] is the loving, amazing inspirational person we know him to be”
“You have all my family’s love and support #loveandsupportoscar”
“All I am saying is let him speak, let his side be heard without jumping to conclusions. Love and thoughts to Reeva’s family”
“I would just like to say, I have dated Oscar on off for 5 YEARS, NOT ONCE has he EVER lifted a finger to me, made me fear for my life”