With the lengthy court proceedings finally drawing to a close as the defence team’s closing arguments currently under-way and the state’s closing arguments concluded, we all want to know: is Oscar innocent or guilty?

More so, what exactly will he be found guilty of? There are now so many versions of “the truth” that it will be no small task to unravel what is fact from what is an attempt to create doubt and confusion.

Gerrie Nel might have failed to hammer the final nail into the Blade Runner’s case, according to James Grant of the Wits School of Law.

“In my view, Oscar Pistorius could be found guilty of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 last year primarily because of his own poor testimony, but ultimately because any doubts that his defence may have raised might well be dismissed as unreasonable,” he said.

Grant and defence lawyer William Booth gave their opinions yesterday as Nel presented his closing arguments in the Pistorius trial in the Pretoria High Court.

Grant said the most powerful evidence presented in the trial had been the evidence of the neighbours who heard a woman scream, followed by what they claim were gunshots.

“For me it is not explained away by Pistorius’s lawyers bringing evidence of other neighbours who didn’t hear a woman scream.

“It doesn’t disprove that four independent witnesses did hear a woman scream. For me, when you take this, combined with the fact, which is agreed upon, that Steenkamp was first shot in the hip and would have screamed involuntarily – and with the fact that Pistorius, who was only metres away, refuses to accept responsibility for his other actions – it makes it hard not to suspect his guilt,” Grant said.

The only hope for Oscar not to serve jail time is that his defence team has done enough to convince the court that Oscar believed he was entitled to kill the intruder – that is if they chose to believe this version of events.

Check out more of the analysis from Times Live – has Nel convinced the court of his version or does Oscar’s “truth” take precedence?