Oscar Pistorius’s lawyer Barry Roux with his tough grilling of witnesses has emerged as the star of the athlete’s murder trial, featuring in rap parodies, fake Twitter accounts and Internet memes.
The veteran advocate has been mobbed outside the court, begged for his autograph, and had his stock phrase in cross-examination, “I put it to you”, adopted into popular culture. “I put it to you, that it is true / everything you say, I will misconstrue,” are the lyrics of a rap parody of Roux created by a South African radio station…
