Lawyer: Pistorius unlikely to flee
2013-02-21 14:56
Pretoria - It is unlikely that Oscar Pistorius will flee the
country, his counsel Barry Roux told the Pretoria Magistrate's Court on
Thursday.
"It does not accord with common sense that a well-known
person would run away," he said.
Cricket bat
In argument in favour of bail, Roux referred to a cricket
bat found on the crime scene.
He submitted that it would be relevant only if were found to
have caused injuries on the body of Pistorius's dead girlfriend Reeva
Steenkamp.
Pistorius has denied a charge of murdering Steenkamp, and
has said he thought a burglar was in the toilet when he shot through the door,
killing her.
Roux argued that there was evidently no significant
information from cellphone records the police had sent for analysis.
The investigating officer Hilton Botha had told the court he
expected to be notified if something important came up, but had not been told
of anything.
Roux said of the State's case: "There was nothing.
There was just nothing."
- See News24's Pistorius Special Report.
- SAPA
