Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Oscar Pistorius emotional at murder trial
Oscar
Pistorius has been very may have seemed unemotional
during the trial of the murder of the Olympian and Paralympian's
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, however, today in court, he buried his head in his
hands and wiped away tears after a South African court on Tuesday
heard grisly details of the killing of his girlfriend, the first sign
of emotion from the track star in his two-day murder trial.
He
leaned forward in the dock and clasped his head between his hands as
lead defense lawyer Barry Roux read out details from the post mortem,
including that "some fragments of the bullet" were removed
from the 29-year-old's head.
Pistorious pled not guity, saying he shot Steenkamp through a toilet door after mistaking her for an intruder.
Pistorious pled not guity, saying he shot Steenkamp through a toilet door after mistaking her for an intruder.
Roux also heaped scorn on the testimony of neighbor Michelle Burger, who said she heard a scream fade away after the shots, saying that Steenkamp would have "dropped immediately" due to a bullet in the head.
Burger broke toward the end of her own testimony, following an angry exchange with Roux, who had sought to show she had mistaken the screams of agitated Pistorius for that of a woman.
The court also heard from a another neighbor, Estelle van der Merwe, who testified that she heard what sounded like an argument early on the morning Steenkamp was killed.
Steenkamp
was declared dead at the scene after being hit in the head, arm and
hip from three bullets from a 9 mm pistol.
The
trial, which could see one of global sports' most admired figures
jailed for life, has drawn comparisons with the high-profile murder
trial of American football star and actor O.J. Simpson two decades
ago.
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