There's a couple of things that puzzle me about the Oscar Pistorius shooting

There have been rumours about previous domestic disputes occurring between Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp involving the police. But they have only been together since last November and I don't think it is possible for somebody to annoy you so much in a few months that you would consider killing them. Especially not somebody who looks like Miss Steenkamp!

Secondly, and this rather contradicts the first. Pistorius is a multi millionaire and doesn't seem the kind of guy to have a house with a small bathroom - so how could he have been sure to hit someone within and with the door having reportedly been closed when he fired the shots.

Supposedly he thought the person in the bathroom was an intruder. But if you are armed, and you suspect that there is an intruder in one of your rooms behind a closed door, you wait quietly outside with the light off and when a target appears in the open door and can be seen clearly you pop a couple of rounds in his head and chest. Tap, tap. Job done. Not four random blind shots through a wooden door which may only wound your potential assailant or even just warn him of your presence.

Which brings me to my last point. Why would an intruder be in the bathroom anyway. It's not the place where you'd expect to find money or jewels. But it is exactly the kind of place a woman might lock herself into if she were frightened. And that might explain the necessity to shoot through the closed door. It's very confusing.

Just before the Olympics I saw an interview with Pistorius and he struck me as an unpleasant arrogant kind of a chap and it may well be that he is arrogant enough to think that his handicap will garner him enough sympathy to get him off with murder.

We shall see. In the meantime I think it unlikely that he will get bail because the police have said they are afraid he might 'do a runner'.