While we're on a ten minute break, I'm going to bore you with my thoughts on this witness.
I think she was called (or Roux thought it would be a good idea to put her on stand) today, because of the Stander's evidence and the evidence of the neighbours. They all talked about Oscar's upset, and how they felt (and I shorten dramatically here) that it must have been an accident because look how sad he is.
This witness is also talking about how upset he was, and she's independent. So it backs up their upset story.
I think that's why she's here.
However - this thing about remorse is very interesting. From the beginning, my feeling is that he doesn't seem capable of accepting responsibility at all.
It's almost child-like in his reactions. He reminds me of my son who broke his favourite stick (boys and sticks) by testing to see how far it would bend. His reaction was instantly how sad he was that he no longer had the stick. It's only been recently that he's started to go to the more adult reaction of 'I did this; I am sorry that I did this.' Yes, he still feels sadness about the loss, but he also feels sadness that he was responsible for the thing that happened. That he can't hide behind anything else or throw blame out externally.
Oscar seems almost incapable of doing that.
I don't know what this points at, if anything.