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SOUTH AFRICAN POLICE have said that Oscar Pistorius will return to court on Monday now that they have completed their investigation into the shooting dead of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
Prosecutors said today they have finalised their case against the Olympic and Paralympic sprinter who will return to court on the date his slain girlfriend would have turned 30.
“We have finalised the indictment, which contains a full list of the charges,” said Bulelwa Makeke, the National Prosecuting Authority spokeswoman. “It will be served on Monday.”
In a statement police confirmed they had completed the murder investigation.
The 26-year-old double amputee is charged with fatally shooting Steenkamp in the early hours of 14 February through a locked bathroom door in his upmarket Pretoria home.
The star athlete claims he mistook her for an intruder, but prosecutors argue it was premeditated murder, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment. Pistorius’s lawyers want the charge reduced to culpable homicide.
Steenkamp, a model and law graduate who had been dating Pistorius for just a few months, suffered gunshot wounds to her head, elbow and hip. In May, Sky News broadcast graphic leaked images of the blood-spattered bathroom where she was killed.
Police expect Monday’s procedural hearing to be postponed after the indictment is served. By then the prosecution and defence may also have finalised a start date for the trial, which is supposed to take place early next year.
The Johannesburg-born Paralympic champion known as the “Blade Runner” became an inspirational hero to millions as the first double amputee to compete against able-bodied competitors at the London Olympics last year.
His family said in June he had started training again for “mental and emotional equilibrium” after taking a break.
He is free pending trial on bail of one million South African Rand (€78,000).
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I’ve sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
I’ve heard those things are awfully loud
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not in your life my Hindu friend..
It glides as softly as a cloud
Were you sent here by the devil?
That floats on high per dales and hills …
No good sir, I’m on the level
Mono.. d’oh!!
^^^^
This is why the internet is fantastic. Bravo, lads, bravo.
This same thing happened like a month ago didnt it lol
For a country not long in it’s present existence, they sure have an awful amount of money to fling about…
You’ll get that when you just invade a country and steal land and displace the indigenous people, all because God says it’s cool.
No doubt Israel will continue to show blatant disregard for laws and rights of Palestinians by robbing more land from the Palestinians to build it.
Pretty cool.
I’m just waiting for someone to tell me why this isn’t as good as it sounds and most likely won’t revolutionise travel.
they could just use buses?
100 years ago they were saying “sure can’t they just use a horse and cart”
Buses? These are for commuters, people going to work and not for the unwashed in their onesies and jammie bottoms going O’Connell Street for their daily fix.
I want to go on one.
Mono. D’oh !!
I am waiting for beam me up scotty like they do on Star Trek
It be great get up in the morning, sure i will go to Sydney for the day
Spy cars.
Sydney monorail built for the Olympics was the worst piece of rail infrastructure I’ve ever been on.
Total recall!
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