Oscar pistorius break down, sobbing, shaking and his family hugging and praying in relief. You might say its fully expected. Talking about this for days now. But this judge kept everyone guessing. The ruling lasted two hours. In it, he criticized prosecutors saying that their witness, this chief police investigator, presented flawed evidence, made incorrect statements, should have done more work but he said that doesnt mean that the states case isnt strong. Next, he hit pistorius saying that the judge had problems with his account of what happened that morning. Saying if pistorius felt so vulnerable and scared to grab a gun, start shooting, running actually in to the bathroom shooting from five feet away and not knowing who was in that room, why did he do that . Why didnt he take one of many other opportunities available to him . Then the judge ruled he is not flight risk or a danger to his community and granted him bail. He did up the amount of bail to more than 100,000. Lots of condi
0 early on and you thought that, you know, it was cut and dry and he was going to give bail to pistorius and then swung the other way for the prosecution. it was quite extraordinary. gareth, i m wondering, has there been any backlash from the paralympic community? anyone coming out publicly to say, you know, that the damage that this has done is, you know, has been hugely impactful or, you know, obviously negatively. has there been any reaction aside from the international paralympic community president? yes, there has. there s shock and disbelief at the beginning, you know, in this kind of valentine s as i mentioned, the valentine s morning murder if you like. and, you know, this poor woman is dead. this beautiful, young woman is dead. for whatever reason we don t quite know yet. but in my ways pistorius, there s a degree of selfishness about him like there are with all athletes at the top of sport but there hasn t really been any most people in the paralympic movement, most of