BLOODSTAINED CRICKET BAT SHOOTS BLADE RUNNER’S STORY FULL OF HOLES

Bashed skull + bloodstained bat = no intruder in the picture

Oscar Pistorius’ story that he used the cricket bat to break down the toilet door and that the bat became blood-spattered at the scene just doesn’t hold any water. And how will the defense explain Reeva Steenkamp’s crushed skull?

A course in Basic Criminal Investigation will teach you that Pistorius’ story is shot full of holes. Here’s putting it in simple terms: Bashed skull + bloodstained bat = no intruder in the picture.

It doesn’t take a crystal ball to predict that the Blade Runner is facing a future of gloom and doom.

PISTORIUS ‘DID BEAT MODEL GIRLFRIEND WITH A CRICKET BAT’ BEFORE HE SHOT HER POLICE TELL HORRIFIED FAMILY AND RELATIVES HAVE SEEN HER EXTENSIVE HEAD INJURIES
Reeva Steenkamp’s skull crushed during attack, South African police say; grieving relatives who saw body before cremation described horrific injuries

By Barbara Jones

Mail Online
February 24, 2013

Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius crushed his girlfriend’s skull with a cricket bat before shooting her dead, police have told her family.

Details of the post-mortem examination of South African model Reeva Steenkamp were withheld from last week’s bail application hearing.

But grieving relatives who saw her body before Tuesday’s cremation in Port Elizabeth described horrific injuries from the cricket bat, and entry wounds from 9mm bullets fired by Pistorius.

They were also briefed about the model’s death by police and lawyers from the state prosecutor’s office.

In a sworn affidavit read to the bail hearing in Pretoria magistrates’ court last week, Pistorius claimed that he used the bat to break down the toilet door after the shooting, saying he had not realised his girlfriend was in the bathroom.

The bloodstained bat, which is currently being examined by a police forensics team, will be key evidence when Pistorius goes on trial for premeditated murder.

The ‘Blade Runner’ – who has previously boasted about having a cricket bat, pistol and machine gun at home to defend himself against intruders – claims the bat became blood-spattered at the scene.

Last week the prosecution did not mention any details about the bat and the role they believe it played in Reeva’s death, opting not to disclose their case against Pistorius. But to secure bail, Pistorius’s legal team had to detail his defence, which included why he had a blood-spattered cricket bat in his possession on the fatal night.

The athlete claims that during the night he heard a noise in the bathroom and feared it was an intruder. Pistorius, 26, said he felt ‘vulnerable’ without his prosthetic legs, so he got a gun from under his bed and fired through the bathroom door, shouting at the ‘intruder’ to get out of the house and for Reeva to call the police.

At that point Pistorius thought she was still in bed.

Pistorius described his ‘horror and fear’ as he realised Reeva was not in the bed, and said he used the bat to break down the toilet door to find Reeva slumped inside the cubicle.

He said he called paramedics and then carried Reeva, 29, downstairs, trying to revive her, but she died in his arms.