So Frank has been looking after the house for OP over the last year and a bit, he has been looked after. Not surprised, exactly as I expected. Not much else to say on that really us there? I mean, you can't use that information as part of the picture we are trying to build of the events that night and have to try to take it on face value, Frank has worked for OP fir a long time, they have a fairly close relationship due to this. Frank has been in an impossible situation.
looking I am finding the psychiatrist hard also. I have a disability, I had a childhood full if hospital and painful surgery, I was a little older when the worst of it was but the same age when it began. I was abused by my biological father who is a horrible man and who was a terrible father. I was lucky with my wonderful Mum and my (step) dad. My (Step) dad died of cancer when I was 17 after a long fight of 3 difficult painful years.
I am not alone with my difficult and traumatic childhood. There are far too many of us out there with similar histories. We still have to take responsibility for our actions.
I sence that they are trying to suggest that the behaviour that led to the what's app messages and the messages themselves are going to be explained as part of OPs anxiety disorder. This may be true but it doesn't make it acceptable. If you looked into the personal histories of men and woman who are abusive, 9 out of 10 times you will find a childhood littered with trauma and abuse. But that really can not be used to excuse the abuse, it makes me angry and upset to think of it being used to excuse the harming of others be that physically or emotionally. Knowing why a person behaves as they do is important but you can't use it to excuse.
Sorry.
On a less personally emotive aspect I also wonder how on one hand OP can be reporting poor relations with siblings and wider family yet be surrounded by them since Reeva was killed, to have poor relations with his fathers family yet go straight to living in his uncles home. I know families often come together in times of crisis but the ease and comfort to which it all came together within hours of him pulling the trigger makes me feel that the family difficulties the psychiatrist is talking about are grossly exaggerated.
As for his father, yes it has always reported to be a difficult relationship but as I and others has said before, close enough to have access to his home and safe, close enough to store ammo for him, close enough for his Father to have been with him in the days after the shooting, for him to be at the bail hearing until made some dodgy racist comments to the media spoiling OPs carefully crafted public image. His fathers exclusion has always felt to me to be more of an exercise in PR then anything else.
All considered I may do as looking us and follow on twitter but not watch until cross. Maybe my bias is showing there. I can hopefully see part it when it comes to my evaluations when the evidence and closing arguments are in.