Oscar version not true – State
The version of events by murder-accused Oscar Pistorius the night his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead is improbable, the State said on Thursday.
FILE PICTURE: State prosecutor Gerrie Nel looks on while paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius testifies during his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Thursday, 10 April 2014. Picture: Marco Longari/AFP/Pool
“Your version is so improbable that nobody would think it is reasonably or possibly true,” prosecutor Gerrie Nel said during Pistorius’s murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria.
Nel said Pistorius would not be able to convince people that his version was true.
Pistorius has been charged with deliberately killing Steenkamp. She was shot through the locked toilet door of his Pretoria home on February 14 last year.
He says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder.
Pistorius has pleaded not guilty and denied in his plea statement that he had argued with her shortly before the shooting. H
On Thursday, Nel said: “Let’s just sum this up. A policeman moved two fans, put the duvet on the floor and opened the curtains wider than it should be?”
Pistorius responded: “That is correct, My Lady.”
Nel showed Pistorius photographs the police took after Steenkamp was shot and asked him to identify items he thought were moved.
Pistorius said the duvet was not on the floor, the curtains were not opened as wide as shown in the picture and he said the fans were moved.
Nel asked why a policeman would move the items and asked if there was a conspiracy against him.
Pistorius replied: “I’m not sure, My Lady.”
Nel said if the fans were where Pistorius said they were supposed to be it would not be possible for them to be plugged in.
The athlete disagreed.
The court was adjourned to Friday.
– Sapa
