Pistorius kicked off his evidence with an emotional apology to Steenkamp’s parents, her family and friends on Monday.
June, mother of Reeva Steenkamp, is seen at the high court in Pretoria during the Oscar Pistorius murder trial, Monday, 7 April 2014. Picture: Deaan Vivier/Media24/Pool
#OscarTrial adjourns for the day after Roux tells court Oscar’s shirt is soaking wet, can’t responsibly ask for trial to continue. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar has calmed down. He is back in the stand. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Reeva’s mother June clearly unmoved by Oscar’s raw sobs. She even smiles as she talks to family, friends. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Court adjourns as Oscar starts sobbing, howling. His sister, also crying, consoles him. Reeva”s mom looks at him impassively.
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Lunch. Back in 45min. Apologies. My twitter is down. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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To catch up. OP said he screamed at “burglar” to get out and heard toiletdoor slam. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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#OscarTrial adjourns for lunch before Oscar gets to the shooting. His sister Aimee, Reeva’s mom both cried during his evidence. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial, Oscar gives emotional evidence about his fear that there was an intruder in his house. Said he wanted to protect Reeva. – ^ID
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Apologies twitter is slow. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I ran with my hands out in front of me and made my way along side my bed and grabbed firearms from under my bed.Couldnt see #OscarTrial
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OP: I wanted to arm myself and protect myself and Reeva. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I just froze at first… I thought immediately the person could be here any moment because there is no door between us #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Roux: what did you think? OP: That is the moment everything changed. I thought it was a burglar in the house #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says he could hear window hit frame as it is slid open. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: It is at this stage that I heard a window open in the bathroom. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: Only light was a small LED light on amplifier. “Could see Reeva’s jeans on ground. Pick them up and put over light” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP is quiet as he struggles to continue #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: Woke up and saw fans are still running. Reeva said”can’t you sleep my baba”. Got up, got fans, locked doors, closed curtains #OscarTrial
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OP fidgets as Roux asks about what happened that fateful night. OP has a white exercise top on. OP crying #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP fidgets as Roux asks about what happened that fateful night. OP has a white exercise top on. OP crying #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Oscar stands next to door without his legs. Seems emotionless. His head is just higher than the door handle. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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#OscarTrial. It seems Oscar will be asked to demonstrate what he did that day. – ^ID
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Roux: Mr pistorius wil you please stand up and walk to the door….now pls take your prosthesis off #OscarTrial – ^CV
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#OscarTrial. Oscar now in white long sleeved T-shirt. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial might get to see Oscar’s height without his prosthetic legs on. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial adjourns “to get the proper clothing on” “to explain the situation with Oscar’s legs”, according to Roux. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar bought Reeva a bracelet for Valentine’s Day. Only opened her gift – framed photos of them – on 8 Aug last year. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar tells court he and Reeva lay chatting on bed before he went to bed on 13 Feb. Never made “big thing” of Valentines Day. –
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Only a 5min adjournment. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Sounds like Roux will ask OP to take off his prosthetics after a short break in court proceedings. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I only opened it after her death on her birthday. It was four photos of us. OP emotional… #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: “I bought Reeva a bracelet by her favourite designer earlier the year and we intended to visit the same jewellery store ” #OscarTrial –
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OP said he put his firearm under the bed on the left hand side. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Oscar: I slept on left side of bed cos of right shoulder injury. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: went to brush his teeth without legs on. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Oscar says Reeva kissed him in between stretches. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP : I was talking to my cousin and Reeva got out of bed and did some stretches and yoga. We chatted for half an hour #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP took off his legs to let them breathe and put them as close to the door as he could next to the bed. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says his alarm is not working properly. “There were problems with the alarm.” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I put the cricket bat close to the door because the lock mechanism isn’t very strong. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: She came in to the room and I locked the bedroom door – like I do every night. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I put the cricket bat close to the door because the lock mechanism isn’t very strong. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: She came in to the room and I locked the bedroom door – like I do every night. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says curtains have black out material. “If the curtains are drawn you can’t see anything….during daytime its completely dark” #OscarTrial
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OP: I placed one fan halfway on balcony, halfway out #OscarTrial “I drew the blinds and curtains so no bugs could come in” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: we went to bed. I opened sliding doors as my aircon is not working. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Roux giving OP time to compose himself. Oscar moving in his chair. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: Usually we would watch tv downstairs but we both had a taxing day. Can’t remember whether she made coffee or tea #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: “We ate dinner shortly after seven”. Roux says OP wasn’t on iPad from 7:10 until 8:00 Roux: Was that when you ate? OP: Yes #OscarTrial –
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Roux asking about OP’s iPad. “I will come back to what you surfed and didn’t surf on the web” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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#OscarTrial. Oscar tells of an ordinary evening the night before Reeva’s death. She cooked dinner for him. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar tells of an ordinary evening the night before Reeva’s death. She cooked dinner for him. – ^ID
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Oscar is calm and composed as he talks about the night before he shot Reeva. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: “I arrived home and she was cooking dinner. Chatted and I went for shower.” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says they discussed whether she would stay another night. “Reeva asked whether I’d like her to cook dinner” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says day before Reeva was shot she slept over at his place. He drove to Joburg to have coffee with a friend #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP said Fresco apologised again and again to Oscar. OP says Fresco suggested that he take the wrap for the incident. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Loupis (Tasha owner) previously said Oscar did not admit it was him. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: I said sorry and “It was my fault” to Tasha’s owner. “I was very relieved no one got hurt”. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP said he didn’t know the gun was loaded and was angry at Fresco that his gun was not safe. “I said he’d take the blame” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: “I was angry that Fresco handed me a firearm that was not safe. Said ‘take your firearm back'” I think both of us were wrong #OscarTrial
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OP: Wanted to make sure that the firearm was safe. It just went off #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP: Fresco’s firearm was a lot smaller than mine. I asked him to pass it. Wanted to see it. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Moving over to other firearm incident in Tasha’s restaurant. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says it never happened. he never discharged a firearm during an open sunroof. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP admits he was angry at policeman for handling his firearm. “I was agitated….wanted to find the casting”. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP said the police helped look for casted out bullet. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says he put his gun down on the car seat before getting out as he didn’t want to approach the officers with the firearm. #OscarTrial – ^C
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OP:”I turned around, police officer opened the door and was handling my fire arm. Police man was aggressive, took out magazine” #OscarTrial
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OP: “Police were agitated cos of speed Fresco was driving. I left the fire arm on the seat as I got out.” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP says they were pulled over by metro. Fresco got out of car. “There were couple of police officers” #OscarTrial – ^CV
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“Mr Fresco was driving on the way back. I sat on the passenger side…Samantha sat behind Fresco #OscarTrial – ^CV
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OP going through his version of events. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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Roux moves over to the incident where Pistorius fired a shot through a car sun roof. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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And we’re back after tea. #OscarTrial – ^CV
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#OscarTrial. Roux very skillfully setting the scene of a loving relationship between Oscar, Reeva. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. A tea break from all the messages between Oscar, Reeva. We’re almost at D-day. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar becomes tearful when he deals with loving, supportive messages Reeva sent him on 11 February, 3 days before death. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Roux going through “booby, baba” loving messages between Oscar, Pistorius day by day from mid-January. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar didn’t want Reeva to drive alone at night, felt it was unsafe. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar dealing with many, many loving messages he, Reeva exchanged. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar says Reeva was stressed about her diet, he reassured her. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial Reeva msg: “It’s okay to argue about the things we argue about, at least its not fundamental values”
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#OscarTrial. Oscar setting the scene for how much he and Reeva loved, supported each other. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial OP reading a msg from Reeva: “Dating you comes with sick people trying to fill my head with doubts”
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#OscarTrial. Oscar says it was difficult for Reeva to deal with the negative publicity surrounding dating him. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial. Oscar says he and Reeva were planning a future together, resolved the few differences they had. – ^ID
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#OscarTrial OP says Reeva believed Samantha Taylor was behind the twitter attack on her, found the negative attention difficult
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#OscarTrial OP says after Reeva and he first made a public appearance together, she was attacked on twitter by multiple accounts
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#OscarTrial OP talks about Samantha Taylor, claims she admitted to cheating on him when he was at the Olympics
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#OscarTrial OP says Reeva was stressed because she received hate mail because she was dating him.
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#OscarTrial Reeva’s mom, June Steenkamp, listens as Oscar describes his relationship with Reeva pic.twitter.com/IszY6yUtuk
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#OscarTrial OP explains how Reeva offered to help with his houses, building contractors etc…
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OP explains a message where he talks about being ‘under pressure’ – from media, finances, training staff etc #OscarTrial
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#OscarTrial Msg from Reeva in January: “This is going to be a good year”
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OP reads a msg to Reeva warning her not to go running alone because “its not safe” – says the area she lived in wasn’t safe. #OscarTrial
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OP reads a msg to Reeva warning her not to go running alone because “its not safe” – says the area she lived in wasn’t safe. #OscarTrial
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Oscar reads a Whatsapp message from Reeva: “You are a very special person who deserves to be looked after.” #OscarTrial
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OP discussing his Whatsapp messages with Reeva – Roux will ‘only read a few into the record’ #OscarTrial
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OP testifying about his relationship with Reeva #OscarTrial
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