The murder-accused’s spokesperson, Anneliese Burgess, confirmed in a statement Oscar was at the club, but – similarly to in his court case – blamed other people for the altercation. “According to my client, (Mortimer) started to aggressively interrogate him on matters relating to the (murder) trial.”
Pistorius is awaiting the final stages of his murder trial. He shot his law-graduate and model girlfriend on Valintine’s Day last year. He claims he mistook her for an intruder when he shot her dead through a locked toilet door at his Pretoria home. The State claims he shot her following an argument.
Sapa reports that according to Pistorius he asked Mortimer to leave him alone during an argument at the club relating to the court case. “Oscar soon thereafter left the club with his cousin.”
According to EWN, bouncers intervened and stopped the brawl. Officials from the club – the VIP Room – which is at the Michelangelo Towers in Sandton, have denied the incident. Spokesperson Perry Mermigas admitted that Pistorius was at the club, but denied that anything out of the ordinary happened.
“We are not aware of this,” Mermigas told Sapa.
“[Pistorius] was there, but there was no altercation and if there had been, we would have known about it,” he said. Burgess said: “My client regrets the decision to go to a public space and thereby inviting unwelcome attention,” said Burgess.
On Sunday Pistorius also made a comeback on Twitter. Several hours after the club incident, he tweeted a Bible verse, a collage of pictures of his humanitarian work, and an extract from Viktor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning”.
The text reads in part: “… The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved.
“In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way – an honourable way – in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfilment.”
The verse from the Bible, Psalm 34:18 reads: “The Lord is close to the broken-hearted”.
This was the first time Pistorius had been active on Twitter since the one-year-anniversary of Steenkamp’s death.
Back then he tweeted: “No words can adequately capture my feelings about the devastating accident that has caused such heartache for everyone who truly loved – and continues to love Reeva.”
“The pain and sadness – especially for Reeva’s parents, family and friends consumes me with sorrow. The loss of Reeva and the complete trauma of that day, I will carry with me for the rest of my life.”
The tweets are causing a bit of a storm on social networking sites with the pro- and anti-Oscar camps dishing out various levels of commentary and abuse.
Final arguments in the murder trial will be heard on 7 August.
