Defence advocate Barry Roux listens while prosecutor Gerrie Nel cross-examines paralympic athlete Oscar Pistorius during his murder trial at the high court in Pretoria, Monday, 14 April 2014. Pistorius stands trial for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in February 2013. Picture: Kim Ludbrook/EPA/Pool
Roux asked him what he meant when he said, during cross-examination by prosecutor Gerrie Nel, that the shooting of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was an accident.
“The situation as a whole, it wasn’t meant to be,” he replied.
Roux asked him what emotions he felt as he stood outside the door of his toilet, gun extended in front of him.
“I was terrified, I feared for my life, I was scared and was thinking about what would happen to me, to Reeva.”
He has been charged with murdering Steenkamp in his Pretoria townhouse on February 14 last year. He shot her through the locked door of his toilet, saying later he mistook her for an intruder about to emerge and attack him. She was hit in the hip, arm, and head.
The paralympian also faces three charges of contravening the Firearms Control Act, on which he has also denied guilt.
– Sapa
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