Bizzare Tour of Oscar Pistorious' House

            

The new tenants of the house where athlete Oscar Pistorius shot and killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp have been filmed giving a tour around the house. In the video, they promise to host parties there every weekend, saying: "Oscar built this house to entertain".
Pistorius family spokeswoman Anneliese Burgess described the footage as "bizarre" to the South African press.
David Scott and Kagiso Mokoape have apologized after giving the South African TV  a tour. However, the pair told the Rekord newspaper they had been assured that they were not being recorded.( likely story since it was a TV news channel)

"They came to the house to interview us to promote our business. We were relaxed and giving our own opinion as they told us they were not recording," Mr Scott said.
Mr Mokoape told the newspaper that the purpose of the video had been to send out a positive message that people "should enjoy and celebrate life".
The business partners give the TV channel a tour of the house, including the bathroom where Ms Steenkamp died, while holding cans of beer. At one point Mr Scott says: "This is definitely an entertainer's house."
In another part of the video he told the channel: "Hot girls can invite themselves."
Mr Scott also said they intended to decorate the house "in honour of what happened here".
These guys are ghouls, getting off on other people's tragedy. They are getting their fifteen minutes of fame on the coattails of a famous athlete/murderer and his victim.
They want to party in the house and show it off. And how, for gosh sakes, do you decorate a house in honor of a horrific  murder ?

The two men appear to be drinking beer throughout the video
 

During the video, Mr Scott opens the toilet door, through which Ms Steenkamp was shot four times, to show where she died. While in the bathroom, Mr Mokoape says "I feel bad for Reeva's parents".
Naturally the bathroom has since been refurbished, but how eerie to contemplate taking a tinkle in that toilet.

MEANWHILE, WHERE IS OSCAR?, YOU ASK
He is under mansion arrest
In one of the wealthiest suburbs of South Africa's capital Pretoria stands a three-story mansion where Paralympic gold medalist Oscar Pistorius was taken on his release from prison.
Pistorius, 29, has to wear an electronic tracking tag after serving 10 months of a five-year sentence for killing his model and law graduate girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013.
The release of Pistorius, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, is in line with South African sentencing guidelines that say non-dangerous prisoners should spend only one-sixth of a custodial sentence behind bars. Pistorius is due to serve the rest of his term in "custodial supervision", a form of house arrest.
He will be mostly confined to the home of his uncle, Arnold, a high-walled mansion in the leafy suburb of Waterkloof that features more than a dozen bedrooms, a private gym, outdoor swimming pool and extensive,beautifully landscaped gardens. Oscar is allowed to leave the house to work, carry out community service or to attend family events.

In a country with one of the world's highest rates of violent crime and where many still live in poverty, there is limited sympathy for Pistorius.

Steenkamp's parents said at the time of Pistorius' sentencing that spending 10 months in prison "for taking a life is simply not enough" and it would send out the wrong message to society.


APPEAL FOR MURDER
Pistorius' time in Waterkloof could be short-lived if state prosecutors succeed in overturning the verdict.  Pistorius admitted killing Steenkamp, 29, by firing four shots into the locked door of a toilet cubicle in what he said was the mistaken belief that an intruder was hiding behind it.
Judge Thokozile Masipa said during sentencing that the state had failed to convince her of Pistorius' intent to kill when he fired.
Prosecutors want the verdict of culpable homicide, equivalent to manslaughter, raised to murder because they argue Pistorius must have known when he fired that the person behind the door could be killed. Many legal experts agree.
"Given he fired four shots through a door when he knew someone was inside, I think there is a good chance the appeal will be successful," William Booth, a lawyer who has followed the trial closely, commented.
If convicted of murder, Pistorius will likely be given a custodial sentence of at least 15 years. Fifteen years of custodial confinement to every luxury imaginable with weekends off ..... if he has plans to go somewhere, does not fit my definition of  the punishment fitting the crime.
But the social stigma Oscar is facing, and did face before the eyes of the world, in the  courtroom,  has exiled him to a different sort of prison; one he can never be released from. With that and the knowledge of his own guilt, he is living his punishment every day.