Reeva: A victim twice over

A LAW graduate is shot dead by her new boyfriend, whom she has been dating a couple of months.

She is killed at his home — the police say that they have been called to the house before. (That was in 2009, when the man in question spent the night in custody, charged with the common assault of a 19-year-old woman. Not the dead woman. Another woman, who later dropped the charges).

The man is a keen user of guns, and a bloody cricket bat was also found at the scene, consistent with his girlfriend’s head injuries, which she had suffered as well as gun shot wounds. Prior to her death, the law graduate had been campaigning to raise awareness about violence against women.