Johnson concludes testimony – Oscar Trial
State witness Charl Johnson concluded giving evidence in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial in the High Court in Pretoria on Thursday.
FILE PICTURE: State prosecutor Gerrie Nel is seen during a break in proceedings at the murder trial of double amputee Paralympian Oscar Pistorius 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. Photo: Antoine de Ras – Pool
Prosecutor Gerrie Nel went through notes Johnson had made about the screams and gunshots he heard in the early morning of February 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp.
“I was convinced that they were being attacked. The screams did not sound like fighting, more like panic and distress,” Johnson said, referring to a woman’s screams he heard around 3am.
After Johnson was excused from the stand he took his wife Michelle Burger’s hand. Pistorius looked at them as they left the court through the side entrance.
Burger was the first State witness to testify on Monday. The couple’s townhouse is about 170m from Pistorius’s.
Pistorius is accused of the murder of Steenkamp. 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.
In September 2010 he allegedly shot through the open sunroof of a car with his 9mm pistol while driving with friends in Modderfontein.
– Sapa
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