Pistorius’s bedroom is dark – expert

Roger Dixon said he had conducted visibility tests at Pistorius’s home.

“With everything off on a moonless night, I couldn’t see anything. Not even my hand…” said Dixon.

He testified that on February 14 last year, the day Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there had also been no moon.

Dixon said he did another test where he switched on the electrical appliances but kept the lights off.

The appliances and small illuminators on the light switches provided some light.

Dixon had performed the same tests at Pistorius’s residence on Monday.

“There was a moon, therefore there was a little light coming… through the passage,” he said.

Dixon told the court the light switch for both the bathroom and the toilet cubicle were on the same panel outside the bathroom door.

“The toilet light was not working,” he said.

Pistorius is charged with murdering Steenkamp. He shot her through the locked bathroom door in his Pretoria townhouse on Valentine’s Day last year. He claims to have mistaken her for an intruder, and that he fired the shots by accident.

– Sapa