Fresco pulled over for driving at 260kph – Oscar Trial

When Fresco said he could not remember the exact speed, Pistorius’s defence lawyer Barry Roux quipped that he would have remembered travelling at such a speed.

Fresco said he, Pistorius and Pistorius’s then-girlfriend Samantha Taylor were stopped twice by traffic police on their way home from a day at the Vaal River.

The first time was for not having a number plate on his car and the second was for speeding, near the Grasmere toll plaza.

Fresco said under cross-examination by Roux that he crumpled up the fines and threw them into the footwell.

Roux had been cross-examining him on earlier testimony that he had given the fines to a motor dealership to deal with, even though the fine was in his name and it was not their responsibility.

Pistorius is accused of the murder of model and law graduate Steenkamp on February 14 last year.

He is also charged with illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition, and two counts of discharging a firearm in public.

He allegedly fired a shot from a Glock pistol under a table at a Johannesburg restaurant in January 2013 and asked Fresco to take the blame, according to testimony.

In September, 30 2012 Pistorius allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.

Taylor testified last week that he fired the shot though the sunroof out of irritation at the traffic police, who had also given him a warning about leaving his firearm on the car seat.

He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

– Sapa