Oscar Pistorius Vomits in Court at 'Graphic' Evidence of Reeva Steenkamp Injuries, as the plug was pulled on TV feed!

The graphic nature of the evidence was confirmed when Pistorius threw up in the dock during testimony by professor Gert Saayman, of the University of Pretoria forensic department.

Pistorius was described as "inconsolate" by witnesses in court as he curled up into a ball while his siblings Karl and Aimee tried to comfort him.

Reports has it that earlier, judge Thoozile Masipa banned journalists from using Twitter to report live what professor Gert Saayman told the court.

Disturbing evidence from the pathologist who examined Reeva Steenkamp's corpse was also reportedly banned from live broadcast at the Oscar Pistorius murder trial.

Pistorius's extreme reaction hinted at the disturbing nature of Saayman's testimony about the condition of Steenkamp, after Pistorius shot her three times through the door of a bathroom in his luxury home on the outskirts of Pretoria. 

The order was made by judge Thoozile Masipa on day six of the track star's murder trial at North Gauteng High Court.

The decision to pull the plug on the TV feed came after Prof Saayman raised his personal concerns about it. The court heard that "graphic detail" in his testimony would "harm vulnerable people" who might come across it online and also harm certain rights of Steenkamp's family.

Prof Saayman told the court he thought broadcasting his evidence would go against his professional principles and also "the morals of society."

A lawyer acting for broadcast firms claimed the principles of freedom of speech and expression would be damaged if no part of Saayman's evidence could be broadcast.

Addressing the court, Saayman said: "It goes against the good morals of society, in a nature where vulnerable people out there may be exposed to information that could do harm. It's my duty to preserve the dignity of the deceased, I believe that by such public streaming of this nature, it's inevitable we will harm the rights of remaining relatives and friends of the deceased."

Prosecution and defence teams were united in demanding the public cannot watch live Saayman's testimony.

Prosecutor Gerrie Nel said: "The explicit and graphic nature of the injuries should not be sent in the whole world. It's not a question of press freedom or freedom of expression, but respect and dignity of the deceased, the rights of the family and friends of the deceased."

The media agreed with the principle of not broadcasting Saayman's evidence live, said advocate Nick Ferreira, who represented TV firms covering the case.

But he opposed an outright ban on any part of Saayman's evidence from being broadcast. Ferreira said a package of Saayman's evidence should be compiled for public consumption, with both prosecution and defence having a say in its contents.

He warned further that "there may be some aspects of the evidence which are no objectionable, principles established here will guide other courts in future.

Prof Saayman began giving evidence after the plug had been pulled on the court TV feed.

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Presidential jet mal - functions at the Minna Airport!

President Goodluck Jonathan and some top government officials on Saturday escaped an air mishap at the Minna Airport, Niger State, when a presidential jet developed a technical fault, while they were aboard.



According to reports, the presidential jet, Nigerian Air Force 001 (5N-FGT), had earlier conveyed Jonathan to Minna for the -Peoples Democratic Party’s North-Central rally which held at the Trade Fair Centre, Minna.
At the end of the rally, the President returned to the airport in company with top government officials, PDP state governors and party chiefs for a trip to Sokoto, from where he was scheduled to return to Abuja.
However, several minutes after Jonathan had bade farewell to those who accompanied him to the airport, and the door of the aircraft was shut, the aircraft failed to move.

After many attempts, crew members and engineers disembarked from the aircraft and made spirited efforts to fix the fault as armed security men took strategic positions around it.
While this was going on, Vice-President Namadi Sambo; President of the Senate, David Mark; all PDP governors, members of the National Assembly and members of the Federal Executive Council were watching under the scorching sun.
When it became obvious that the fault could not be easily fixed, the commander of the Presidential Air Fleet, Air Vice Marshal Uko Ebong, ordered that a smaller presidential jet, 5N-FGW, which conveyed the Vice-President to the state be brought to fly Jonathan.
Jonathan disembarked from the faulty jet at about 3.30pm and quickly moved to the smaller aircraft.
He later left the airport in the smaller aircraft at about 3:35pm, leaving behind some of his co-occupants in the bigger jet.


Sambo also had to join Mark in another smaller presidential jet, 5N-FGV, which had earlier conveyed the Senate President to the state. Senator Barnabas Gemade and a few other dignitaries also joined them.
Those who were with the President in the faulty aircraft before they disembarked included the National Chairman of the PDP, Adamu Muazu; Chairman of the party’s Board of Trustees, Tony Anenih; former chairman of the party, Ahmadu Ali; former Sokoto State Governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, and some presidential aides.
At the time of filing this report, engineers were still battling with the faulty jet on the tarmac in the deserted airport while officials of the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria were seen taking notes.
Some security men were left behind to keep watch on the aircraft.


When asked for what was wrong with the aeroplane, an official of FAAN simply said, “The return engine refused to pick.”
Another source who pleaded anonymity, said the hot temperature in the city led to the fault.
“What the commander said was that the high temperature affected the engine of the aircraft,” he said.

When asked why the hot weather did not affect the two other presidential jets, the source explained that the Air Force 001 is “more digitalised than others.”

16 year old school girl who fled to France with jailed teacher 'dumps him for another teacher!

A 15 year old schoolgirl who sparked an international manhunt after eloping with her 31 year old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest is now said to be 'ridiculously happy' after falling for a 20-year-old PE teaching assistant and part-time security guard, while teacher Jeremy is currently serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence for abducting her.

The Sun on Sunday reported girl,' who cannot be named for legal reasons', posted a picture showing the new man giving her a kiss on the cheek while she sticks her tongue out.

And her mother is understood to wholeheartedly approve of the relationship, telling the newspaper: 'He is really nice and we have welcomed him into our family and I am very happy for my daughter.'

It is believed that because the girl is now 16 and the new teacher does not work at her current school, their relationship is not illegal.

Friends of the teenager are also said to be keen on the new man and see him as a positive influence.

The pair who reportedly spent two nights  together are said to have connected over a shared love of music and exchanged a series of flirty tweets before things became more serious in mid-February. 

Last week she posted on Twitter that she was annoyed when people said that when someone moves on it meant they did not love the person they were with before.

The news is expected to come as a devastating blow to Forrest who was arrested in September 2012 when the runaways were spotted in Bordeaux after spending a week on the run.

Just last month it was claimed the girl had written to him in prison to say she still loved him and wanted to rekindle their relationship when he has served his sentence.

It was gathered that Forrest, whose wife left him after his betrayal, was not allowed to read the letters and has been transferred to tough Dartmoor Prison after making a complaint.

Forrest, who taught at Bishop Bell School in East Sussex, first kissed the girl when she was 14. The pair had sex after she turned 15.

When police were alerted they fled to France by ferry, travelling under false names. 

He was spotted and arrested eight days later. Last June at Lewes Crown Court he was convicted of sex offences and abduction, and jailed.

Afterwards the girl said: ‘I love Jeremy so much. I want to spend the rest of my life with him and maybe once he’s out, we can marry and have children.

Forrest began his relationship with the girl on a school trip to Los Angeles when she was 14 and was seen holding her hand on the plane – something she claims he was doing to comfort her as she was struggling with bulimia.

She opened up to him about the break-up of her parents’ marriage before he kissed her in a classroom. She said they would have sex in his Ford Fiesta or hotels, which they would check into as Mr and Mrs Forrest.

They were on the run for eight days before being found in Bordeaux where he was arrested in front of her.

He was convicted of child abduction and five counts of sexual activity with a child at Lewes Crown Court last June.

Two on missing Malaysia flight used stolen European passports!

Rome and Vienna's foreign ministry officials confirmed Saturday that names of two nationals listed on the manifest of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight match passports reported stolen in Thailand. 



A passenger manifest issued by Malaysia Airlines after its plane went missing off the Vietnamese coast with 227 passengers and 12 crew included the names of Christian Kozel, 30, from Austria, and Luigi Maraldi, 37, from Italy, however, neither European was on the plane, which reportedly disappeared less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur bound for Beijing, officials said. 



The Italian was traveling in Thailand and the Austrian was located by police in his native country. The father of the Italian man told the Associated Press that his son's passport had been stolen a year and a half ago while traveling in Thailand. "He deposited it with rental car agency, and when he returned the car it was gone," Walter Maraldi said by telephone from his home in the northern Emilia-Romagna region. 

Walter Maraldi said authorities could not tell him whether the stolen passport or a counterfeit copy was used by a passenger to board the aircraft. The father said his son Luigi Maraldi, 37, called his parents from Thailand to tell them he was fine after hearing news reports that an Italian with his name was on board the missing airplane. 

Maraldi's mother told Reuters that her son's passport had been lost, presumed stolen, in Phuket in 2013. "He lost his passport in Thailand, and he reported it to the authorities... Maybe the one who stole it came to a bad end, we don't know, they have to investigate," 

Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Martin Weiss confirmed that a name listed on the manifest matches an Austrian passport reported stolen two years ago in Thailand. Weiss would not confirm the Austrian traveler's identity. "We have no information on who might have stolen the passport," he said. 

The Austrian Foreign Ministry spokesman said: "It's interesting that there were two cases on the same plane but we just know that our Austrian was not on board. "Someone used a document to get on the plane. But whoever used that, we have nothing to say about that, we don't know, that would be for the authorities to look into," he said. 


LA Times reported late Saturday that the United States will send FBI agents and experts to help investigate the jet's disappearance. According to the report, the FBI agents will help review video from the Kuala Lumpur airport for images of departing passengers that can be checked in the bureau's vast counter-terrorism database. 

At least three US citizens, and an infant who could be a US citizen, were on board the plane. "This gives us entree" to the case, the official told the LA Times, speaking on condition of anonymity. 

The disclosure that two people on board were travelling on stolen passports raised questions about a possible terrorist attack, but US intelligence officials earlier told US media that stolen passports "don't necessarily say to us that this was a terrorism act.

"On Sunday it was reported that Malaysian authorities are investigating the identities of at least two other passengers on a missing Malaysia Airlines flight, in addition to two who were found to be using stolen passports. Investigators were verifying the identities with the elevant embassies in Malaysia, said a security official, who has knowledge of the investigation and declined to be identified. The passengers being checked had all bought their tickets through China Southern Airlines, the official said.

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