Day five of Pistorius trial begins

Judge Thokozile Masipa issued a warning before the cross-examination of the sixth witness, radiologist Johan Stipp, resumed.

Masipa warned that if anyone misbehaved in court they would be “chucked out”.

Pistorius’s attorney Barry Roux started by asking Stipp not to tailor his evidence to fit the State’s case.

Pistorius, 27, is accused of murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on February 14 last year. He has pleaded not guilty to the charge of murder, and to contraventions under the Firearms Control Act.

Stipp was the first doctor to arrive at the crime scene and 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,” 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 help her to breathe.

– Sapa