Johnson concludes testimony – Oscar Trial

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