In my teens I read Tom Sharpe's farce come satire, Riotous Assemby. This glorious crude and provocative book lampooned the values of Aparthied South Africa. The central plot being around the chaos the ensues as the Police try to investigate the murder of a black servant by his white employer with a 4 barrelled shot gun.
I suspect the Steenkamp/Pistorious trial would have appauled Sharpe. A story where a celebrated athlete shoots his wife but it's all ok because he thought she was a black burglar feels all to close to being source material.
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