Preparations for Oscar trial underway
Preparations for day five of paralympian Oscar Pistorius's murder trial were underway at the High Court in Pretoria on Friday morning.
Double amputee Paralympian Oscar Pistorius is seen with his legal team during a break in court proceedings on the second day of his murder trial at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, 4 March 2014. Pistorius is accused of the murder of Reeva Steenkamp on Feb 14 2013. Picture: Antoine de Ras – Pool
The cloudy and humid air threatened to bring more rainfall after a relatively sunny Thursday.
Parking bays around the court were already filled up just after 6am as journalists arrived.
Staff at the nearby make-shift restaurant were offloading stock and setting up tables for the day.
Pistorius is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 last year. Pistorius claims he mistook her for a burglar.
The first doctor to arrive at the scene where Pistorius shot Steenkamp testified on Thursday that the athlete was so emotional he feared he would turn the gun on himself.
“I was afraid Oscar would hurt himself,” radiologist Johan Stipp told the court.
Stipp, a neighbour of Pistorius’s in the Silver Woods security estate, said he was woken by gunshots and screams. After alerting security, he went to see if anybody needed medical help.
He found Pistorius kneeling next to his dying girlfriend, with one hand on a bullet wound in her thigh and the other in her mouth, trying in vain to force her to breathe.
– Sapa
