To Kill A Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius

by Brenda Wardle

In To Kill A Fragile Rose: The State’s Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius, Brenda Wardle delves into the fissures and disparities of South African society, taking the reader through the gallows at Kgosi Mampuru III Correctional Centre and the lingering stench of the last execution of a woman who had confessed to having participated in the crimes of robbery with aggravating circumstances and murder. Wardle provides a brilliant account of legal history and contributes to an understanding of the South African criminal justice system, the different role players in the Oscar Pistorius trial are then laid bare whereafter the evidence in the trial is explored and analysed in depth. The contradictions in testimony of Oscar Pistorius and the gaping holes in his evidence are unravelled. Wardle then bursts into the judgment by Judge Masipa, its fatal errors, the appeal by the State and other dramatic events which ensued. To Kill a Fragile Rose is a must read, it will prove riveting to legal scholars and lay persons alike from judges and the jury to ordinary members of society who watched the trial from a premise of common sense and moral outrage. It is interrogatory and detailed but not difficult; intriguing without being complicated; it is no regurgitation of what happened in court but is an expose of intricate details that hitherto were unexplained.

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Published November 11, 2018

Reviews

[Suzanne]

I would love to review this book, I was lucky enough to win it in a Goodreads giveaway. Unfortunately, despite twice being assured by the author, Brenda Wardle, that she was going to post it out to me, (The first delay, apparently was due to Pistorius' appeal but now that that was over she would "dispatch it to me immediately", the second time I made contact, the 27th, no explanation for the delay, but she would "put it in the post to me on the 29th". I'm still waiting and it must be four months now!
Any further contact I have tried to make has gone unanswered. I appreciate this was a free gift and so I am not out of pocket, but I entered because I genuinely wanted to read this book, and besides, why offer the book as a prize if you are not prepared to make good on the offer?